One of the oldest Indian manufacturers and exporters of card clothing and card room accessories, The Indian Card Clothing Co Ltd (ICC) is showcasing its award-winning ‘Tops Height Measuring’ (THM) device, an innovative ‘On Card’ technology, to solve uncertainty and a pain area faced by spinners in the carding department at the upcoming India-ITME.

Marc Wolpers, Director of Trützschler Nonwovens is gung-ho about the India’s nonwoven market and he is confident that he will be firming up new projects in India.

Lenzing Instruments’ booth offers an update on available systems for quality- and process control of staple fibre, filament, nonwovens, woven fabric, composites and plastic film.

TumKalip Aparat, a Turkish manufacturer of spare parts for new generation of European make weaving machines, will be displaying its range of quality spare parts at India-ITME in hall 6, booth D11.

Ramdev, yoga guru and founder of Patanjali Group, said that the brand is planning to foray into the textile manufacturing sector.

The Rs 6,000-crore special package, which was recently approved for the garment sector, may cover the home textile segment, the sector which was earlier excluded from its ambit.

In a bid to promote the country’s textiles in non-traditional markets like Russia, South America and West Asia, the Government is planning to conduct roadshows in these places.

The recently concluded ITMA ASIA + CITME 2016 textile machinery exhibition, the largest showcase in the series since its launch in 2008, received a very strong response from visitors. By the end of the five-day show on 25 October, the fifth combined showcase registered a visitorship of over 100,000 from 102 countries and regions. About 20% of the visitors came from outside China.

The amount of orders received by the Rieter Group in the first nine months of 2016 was significantly higher than for the same period of the previous year. Cumulative order intake amounted to CHF 718.4 million and was thus up by 22 per cent on the said prior year period. Order intake in the third quarter totaled CHF 207.7 million owing to an investment reluctance in Turkey. The market environment in the third quarter was characterized by differing dynamics in the individual countries as well as with regard to the product categories.