Opportunities for India in technical textiles The fastest growing middle-class population with higher disposable income is one of the biggest key growth drivers in India for rise in technical textiles consumption, opines Avinash Mayekar of Suvin Advisors.

The 2016 financial year was characterised by a significantly higher order intake, especially in the first half year, and lower sales compared to the previous year. Despite the decline in sales, Rieter achieved an EBIT margin of 6 per cent. Against the background of the solid financial and earnings position, the Board of Directors proposes to the shareholders to increase the dividend compared to the previous year.

Nonwoven fabrics can be used in a wide variety of applications, which may be limited life, single-use fabrics as disposable materials or durable fabrics for automotive and civil engineering applications, explain Rajanna L Gotipamul, SG Kulkarni and Pranshil Gourkar, in the 2nd and concluding part of the article. The 1st part appeared under Spotlight section of March 2017 issue.

Jingmei has a unique R&D facility at its factory in Xiamen to offer better products to its customers through continuous innovation. A.T.E. has joined hands with Quanzhou Jingmei Machine Co., Ltd. to sell “Jingmei” brand circular knitting machines in India (except in Ludhiana city) and Bangladesh effective from February 2017.

MOL, BMD beef up IT front with datatex NOW
Maral Overseas and BMD has joined a very well respected list of Datatex customers globally and in India where some of the country’s leading textile corporations have gone for the Datatex ERP solution.

Awards for India-ITME 2016 exhibition
India ITME- 2016 Exhibition was nominated and qualified for the awards under the following categories: Knowledge Hub Category

Oerlikon posts strong 2016 results Oerlikon’s full-year order intake stood at CHF 2,413 million, including a positive currency impact of 1.2 per cent and sales came in at CHF 2,331 million, including a positive currency impact of 1.2 per cent.

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.