The new Montex 8500 from Monforts includes several new features and options including an optional integrated support belt for heavy coated fabrics; a newly designed operator´s platform with improved access; enhanced visualisation introducing smartphone features; a new stentering chain; and an Eco Booster heat recovery module where an additional Exhaust Air Cleaning device can be added.

For more than 110 years, Mayer & Cie. (MCT) has manufactured circular knitting machines that are used to make t-shirts, night wear, underwear and mattress covers, among others. The capital goods manufacturer from the Swabian Jura has received many patents and revolutionised the automated circular knitting process, and is now the global market leader in the field.

Sustainable textile processing research has been undertaken way back in the 1980s and has led to significant cost savings in the textile industry. Professor Fred L Cook, who has recently retired from fulltime teaching at Atlanta, Georgia-based Georgia Institute of Technology after four decades of distinguished career there, highlighted some of his key research accomplishments

Freudenberg, the worldwide leading manufacturer of technical textiles, has presented its latest developments for high-tech wiping at the IDEA 2016 show in the US. Originally designed as a durable fabric with outstanding properties, Evolon has been used for more than a decade as heavyweight high-tech cleaning cloths withstanding hundreds of wash cycles at constant performance.

ITAMMA is one of the oldest and largest textile engineering associations in the world. It has organised many events helping its members from the textile engineering industry by providing a platform for business interaction with the industrialists and entrepreneurs from the textile industry.

In 12 halls covering a total area of 120,000 m2 at the TUYAP Fair, Convention and Congress Center, Istanbul, Turkey, over 1,200 exhibitors of ITM 2016 showcased their machines, components and parts from June 1 to 4, 2016 to one of the world´s biggest textile market, Turkey.

In a move to expand its innovative capacities, SANITIZED AG, provider of the most extensive portfolio of antimicrobial products for the plastics and textile industries, has opened the new SANITIZED TecCenter at its Burgdorf head office in Switzerland.

AT.E. and Savio Macchine Tessili, Italy, recently organised a series of ´Customer Days´ across India, to announce the tie-up between the two companies. A.T.E. has become the sole selling agent for Savio´s automatic winders and TFOs in India from April 1, 2016.

Tamilnadu Water Investment Company Limited (TWIC) is a pioneering developer of water/waste water projects in India. Promoted by Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited (54 per cent) and Government of Tamil Nadu (46 per cent). Over the last few years, TWIC has been in the forefront of a number of initiatives both in the urban water space as well management of industrial effluent.