From May 3-5, 2016 the trade fairs Texprocess Americas and Techtextil North America will take place at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, USA. Groz-Beckert will participate with its product areas Sewing and Felting. The company will present its products and services of the two sectors in hall B1A, booth 701. At the Texprocess, formerly known by the name of Spesa Expo, the visitors can find everything related to textile finishing and technologies for the development, acquisition and manufacture of sewn products.

Today, Suvin is one of the major consultancy firms in India making its strong mark in domestic as well as international textile industry. Avinash Mayekar, MD & CEO, is continuously promoting technical textiles in India since 2000 and have successfully executed several projects in domestic as well as international markets.

Marzoli C701 sports all the features of modern high-performance cards, and thanks to its innovative geometry represents a technological benchmark to fully satisfy the needs of a modern spinning mill. The card has always been at the heart of the spinning process. Only with an effective carding of the fibre the spinner can produce a homogeneous, regular, resistant and clean yarn and therefore ensure efficiency and quality in downstream operations.

Teijin Limited has announced it will expand Technora para-aramid fibre production by 10 per cent through increasing capacity in Teijin’s Matsuyama Factory. Construction begins this June at a cost of 1.5 billion JPY, with operation slated to begin from October 2017. Teijin and the group’s core aramid-fibres business Teijin Aramid B.V. will jointly expand the worldwide sales of Technora in response to increasing market demand worldwide.

Itema, the world’s largest privately held provider of advanced weaving solutions, including best-in-class weaving machines, spare parts and integrated services, announced results for the full year (FY2015) ended December 31, 2015, maintaining a positive trend for three years in a row.

ANDRITZ Nonwoven offers complete process solutions with its neXline needlepunch technology. The demand for this process has been rising considerably due to growth in the automotive, filtration, and geotextile industries. The ANDRITZ eXcelle and aXcess series provide cards, crosslappers, and needlelooms for medium and high production capacities. In the eXcelle line solution, the new high-speed dynamic crosslapper D.630 can increase the capacity of the needlepunch production line.

With Suvin signing an international project with Afghanistan for development of Cotton Value Chain in Afghanistan, there is one more feather in the Suvin’s Cap in terms of international projects. Comprehensive Agriculture and Rural Development – Facility (CARD-F) is an agriculture & rural development programme of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. CARD-F aims to increase rural employment, income and business opportunities through the design, facilitation and implementation of commercially viable agricultural value chain.

The 1st Defence-ITTA Joint Exhibition-cum-Seminar on Make in India was successfully held in February, 2015. The connectivity created during the 1st seminar between the defence officials and the leaders of the technical textile manufacturers in India have resulted in product quality improvement, reduction in imports and new product development for defence during the post event period.

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