The 57th Joint Technological Conference of the four research associations, held at the BTRA Campus, showed a great tilt in its focus towards the emerging areas of textile industry, specifically the technical textiles. The Chief Guest, Dr Kavita Gupta, Textile Commissioner, struck the keynote for the conference by saying that while Germany has more than 50 per cent of textile products are technical textiles.

Low temperature plasmas are ionised gases generated at pressures between 0.1 and 2 torr. These types of plasmas work within a vacuum chamber conditions using low power RF or DC sources where atmospheric gases have been evacuated typically below 0.1 torr, say G Ramakrishnan, J Srinivasan, Jothilinkam MD and T Ramachandran.

Founded in Switzerland in 1887, Jakob Müller AG is the world’s leading company with regards to technology for the manufacture of woven and knitted tapes and webbing, woven ropes, woven labels and technical textiles, printed narrow fabrics, dyeing, make-up and winding machinery.

2016 ends with 5% rise in orders for Acimit members
The orders index for textile machinery compiled by ACIMIT, the Association Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers, for the period from October to December 2016

Stewarts of America Inc and Jaipur-based Basant Wire Industries (Pvt) Ltd have announced longstanding partnership, which has now resulted in an agreement whereby Stewarts of America Inc has provided all intellectual property, manufacturing know-how and machinery for the production of open-end spinning components. This includes special wire winding machines for combing roll production and balancing equipment for rotor production.

The journey of Karle International began in the 70s when India started exporting handloom/powerloom fabric to North America and Europe. Karle offered local dyed Madras plaids, which was accepted because after every wash, it started fading and went very well with denim pant.

NEXIA appoints Orange O Tec as Indian marketing partner
Italian manufacturer of machines for industrial laundry, dyeing and treating clothing, NEXIA srl DeFranceschi has named Surat-based Orange O Tec as its marketing partner for India.

Vietnam in top 10 markets for Italian machinery
An essential production hub for the garments manufacturing sector thanks to its low labour costs, Vietnam is currently a major industry supplier for both the European and US markets

Progress in China’s textile industry is increasingly being driven by a young and dynamic generation of professionals – and USTER is proud to play a role in fostering the development of these talented individuals.