TumKalip Aparat, a Turkish manufacturer of spare parts for new generation of European make weaving machines since the last 30 years, will be showing its range of quality spare parts at India-ITME. TumKalip will also be promoting its high-tech coating technology for used Rapier Heads, like TiO2 and TC also called tungsten carbide coatings.

Amba Projex Ltd is a UK-based company, located near Manchester. It has manufacturing capability on sites throughout the UK and Europe. The company designs and supplies coating, flocking and laminating machines for technical textiles and composites.

Vietnam’s garment and textile export in the first nine months this year posted the lowest growth rate for the last ten years, reported Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (Vitas). The down growth rate has been caused by import reduction from some major markets of Vietnam where have met with economic difficulties and the Britain’s exit from the EU.

Rashmi Verma is Secretary – Textiles, Ministry of Textiles under the Government of India. Verma, a 1982 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre, took over the charge as the new Secretary, Ministry of Textiles from January 1, 2016. Earlier, she was the Special Secretary in the Department of Revenue in Ministry of Finance. Verma has a very rich, vast and varied experience at various key positions at the Centre and State level.

Rajasthan has emerged as a pre-eminent hub for the domestic textile industry with a presence across the entire value addition chain from spinning to garments. About 30 MoUs worth Rs 8,500 crore were signed for the textile sector, of which 12 projects have started production while 12 projects are under construction and three projects are under various stages of clearance.

Ring spinning machines from Zinser — a new level of efficiency in the commodity segment: At a length of 2,016 spindles, the Zinser 72 ring spinning machine breaks the 2,000 barrier and sets new standards for efficiency in the commodity segment. The machine is super-long, super-economical and extremely user-friendly.

The ITMF International Committee on Cotton Testing Methods (ICCTM) announced a new initiative to standardise the testing of stickiness in cotton samples. The stickiness testing initiative will be led by Jean-Paul Gourlot and his colleagues at Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), in collaboration with Axel Drieling at Faserinstitut Bremen e.V. (FIBRE) and Karsten Fröse at the Bremen Baumwollbörse.

Real credibility does not get built overnight. It takes years of patient and passionate dedication to be seen and recognised by the world, to be accepted and appreciated by customers.

RK Shah, who started his career way back in 1962 by manufacturing machine tools known as the tiger brand lathe machine, subsequently changed and expanded the horizons from machine tools to textile spinning by developing the very first cot grinding machine in 1969. He successfully created the brand which is now globally recognised as Sagar.