Archroma is a global colour and specialty chemicals company headquartered in Reinach near Basel, Switzerland. Archroma, a global leader in colour and specialty chemicals, who pioneered custom colour engineering in textile and fashion, recently sponsored a seminar with founder of Design Seeds, Jessica Colaluca, during this year’s PrintSource.

Introduced initially in 2010, and later refined in 2015, the new SX Jacquard machine has gained wide and enthusiastic approval by customers.

Among the major cotton producing countries, India holds the largest area under cotton cultivation, which covers around 11-13 million hectares of agricultural land constituting about 40 per cent of world’s total area under cotton cultivation, says Amit Gugnani of Technopak.

Allma will exhibit its latest developments in twisting technology for industrial yarns. On the two-for-one twisting machine TechnoCorder TC2 for industrial yarns for example up to 9-ply yarn constructions can now be processed. The innovative FlexiPly device allows for the production of innovative hybrid yarns.

Color Service, a world leader in automatic dosing system, has an innovative solution that allows to use both powder and liquid dyes. Print houses use dyes in powder or liquid form. In fact, 90 per cent of print houses use only powder dyes such as reactive and disperse (though this has to be first dissolved before application and needs to be prepared fresh).

German nonwovens manufacturer Sandler AG from Schwarzenbach/Saale, Bavaria, reports a successful year 2016. Despite a sharp fall in raw material prices, the company was successful in keeping sales stable at Euro 288 million and further increasing output.

India is now the third largest sales market in Asia for the German engineering industry. ?Presently more than 550 VDMA member companies are engaged with their own business in the Indian market. In 2016, the bilateral trade between India and Germany grew to Euro 17.42 billion from a figure of nearly Euro 17.29 billion in 2015.

Bhowmick Calculators started its journey in 1972 by Late BK Bhowmick as a small scale enterprise. In its journey of 45 years, it became a well-known enterprise in the Indian industry. Currently, his son Goutam Bhowmick has taken the charge and leading the company.

Technical textiles finished on BRÃœCKNER machines stand for a sustainable improvement of the production and a particularly efficient use of the resources. The German systems supplier and technology market leader BRÃœCKNER shows a wide range of application examples for technical textiles, which can be finished on the tailor-made and resource-saving BRÃœCKNER machines. A great number of special machines for very specific purposes show the competence of creative BRÃœCKNER team.