CEMATEX, the European Committee of Textile Machinery Manufacturers, has announced that it has awarded a contract to a new company, ITMA Services, to organise its ITMA 2019 show. ITMA Services NV is headquartered in Brussels and has a subsidiary office, ITMA Services Pte Ltd, in Singapore.

The textile industry of Iran is ready for a new beginning and determined to achieve future progress in technology and global market penetration, following the recent ending of international sanctions which hampered its continued development. As long-term partners of Iranian textile companies, Switzerland’s textile machinery producers are eager to play a major role in their renewed growth, as was demonstrated at a highly successful two-day seminar held in Tehran.

Many specialised yarns are gaining importance in recent times over conventional yarns, elaborates an ITJ exclusive feature. It was a trickle a decade ago, but now speciality yarns are flooding the market. Boom in fashion, fast growth of technical textiles and newly emerging areas like leisurewear and sportswear are fueling the growth of speciality yarns.

Self-reinforced polymer composites (SRPC) consist of highly oriented reinforced polymer fibres and a low melting fraction of the same polymer family as matrix, write Marie-Isabel Popzyk, Sangeetha Ramaswamy, Volker Niebel, Thomas Gries, Linde De Vriese, Kristel Beckers and Lien Van der Schueren.

Gujarat’s textile policy, announced in 2012, has so far attracted investment commitment worth Rs 9,208 crore through various sectors such as weaving, made-ups, processing, spinning, ginning and technical textiles. The plan is to attract Rs 20,000 crore investment and 2.5 million new jobs by 2017.

Nonwoven substrates made using spunmelt and carding processes are cost effective to develop tissue scaffolds. A team of researchers from the University of Missouri-Columbia and University of North Carolina (UNC)/North Carolina State University (NCSU) have found that nonwoven substrates produced using the above traditional methods provided viable tissue scaffold medium compared to electrospun nanofibre webs.

If you ask many an Italian textile machinery company, what are the factors behind their success, they mostly point out to two elements: Tradition & Innovation. For years, these companies have upheld the great values of their tradition, and by spending 5 per cent of their turnover constantly year after year on research and development (R&D), they have given priority to innovation.

The vibrant spinning industry of Indonesia is the perfect match for the USTER® TESTER 6. The world?s most advanced quality measuring system is the gateway to Total Testing, while the integrated Assistant Q support feature guides mills to the best quality and profitability choices for targeting high-end textile applications. Agansa Primatama demonstrated these benefits directly to the spinners at the Indo Intertex event.

Dye sublimation printing continues to evolve and enhance its performances, providing users with high quality printed products and DTG printing keeps higher speed capability enabled through new generation printheads, highlights an exclusive ITJ Report. Despite the headway digital printing has been making in the last few years, screen printing with a share of over 90 per cent (rotary screen and flat screen printing) in textile printing is here to stay, thanks to their flexibility, cost-effectiveness and also some technological leaps.