Rajiv Garg, MD of Garg Acrylics Ltd, was elected as President of Northern India Textile Mills’ Association (NITMA), the apex body of textile industry in North India. NITMA elected its new leadership team in its executive committee meeting held on February 1, 2017 at Ludhiana.

The Union Textile Ministry has announced unique terms and conditions for procuring fully pressed cotton bales from Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) for the benefit of MSME textile units.

New developments in nonwovens technology will be featured at the Technical Association of Pulp and Paper Industry’s, (popularly known as TAPPI) Innovative Nonwovens Conference (NET Inc) to be held from from April 23-26 in Minneapolis, United States.

Wacker Chemie AG is expanding its existing production plants for polymeric binders in Germany. The Munich-based chemical group is currently building another dispersion reactor with an annual capacity of 60,000 metric tons at its Burghausen site.

In a strategic global initiative, Welspun India (WIL) has entered into a co-operation agreement with Cotton Egypt Association (CEA) to promote and market Egyptian cotton products worldwide. Under the agreement, the two organisations will work together to create programmes for promotion of Egyptian Cotton logo in the retail markets across the globe.

Specialty chemicals company LANXESS, a world-leading manufacturer of leather chemicals, is unveiling leather trends for the spring-summer season 2018. The collection presents tanneries with numerous leather samples that reflect the trends in terms of colour, structure, haptics and overall appearance.

KARL MAYER Technische Textilien GmbH Technical Textiles is an expert and highly committed partner to the composites sector, and demonstrated this once again at the JEC World show, held from 14 to 16 March 2017 in Paris.

The Textiles Ministry is positively working on the proposals for a Centre of Excellence (CoE) and a mega textile park at Surat, a hub for the man-made fabric industry in Gujarat.

The new system directly links EREMA’s VACUREMA® technology with Trützschler Switzerland’s symTTex BCF machinery, says Dr Lassad Nasri.