The Swiss company Retech’s attention turned always to optimise heating and motor capacity in order to save energy. The whole power of new innovation leads to fulfill this credo and therefore to the optimised godet. To define the right and best suited godet a close collaboration between customer and equipment designer is very important. There is no such thing as an ‘off the shelf’ godet.

The novel flax fibre hockey sticks consist of flax braids formed around a foam core, impregnated by a resin under vacuum pressure using an elastic tubular foil, say Marie-Isabel Popzyk, Viktor Reimer and Thomas Gries.

Specialty chemicals company LANXESS has appointed a new head of Corporate Development. Dr Jens-Christian Blad will assume responsibility for the group function by September 1, 2017, at the latest.

The 3rd Defence ITTA joint seminar-cum-exhibition was inaugurated by Smriti Irani, Minister of Textiles, at Manekshaw Centre, Delhi.

Polyester: The new King of Fibres
When did you last see an athlete, a tennis player, a football or a cricket player changing the jersey in the midfield? You may not even remember now though it was a very common scene until the 90s. They keep on playing for hours comfortably now.

UCMTF invited the press during Techtextil (Frankfurt, May 2017) to present French Textile Machinery Manufacturers’ partnerships with its customers to identify the textile producers’ technological needs to design and develop innovative textile products, how the best solutions could be found, and the necessary tests of both the machines and the textile new products.

Baldwin’s Spray Applicator offers a paradigm shift in sustainable textile finishing. Baldwin Technology Company Inc showcased its state-of-the-art spray applicator at the Techtextil trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany.

The Textile Machinery Division of SWISSMEM represents the interests of its 40 members. In 2015, SWISSMEM celebrated Diamond Jubilee, and over the past 75 years, its Textile Machinery Division has reached many milestones. Some of the members have become unchallenged market leaders in their segments.

It is the first enterprise of its kind, set up in a matter of 14 months! And it is Gujarat’s first cooperative cotton spinning plant, and will be a jewel in the crown of Surat!

On June 1, 2017, Surat Vankar Sahkari Sangh Limited inaugurated Gujarat’s first cotton yarn spinning plant in the cooperative sector at Dinod village in the tribal-dominated Mangrol taluka.