The WC at home is often used to dispose of items other than toilet paper: fabric items and wipes for cosmetics, personal care and hygiene that really do not belong in there. These moist wipes are broken down very poorly in water, so they get into the drainage system, and from there to the wastewater treatment plants, where they form enormous clumps and have to be removed at great effort and expense.

Terrot Group exhibited its range of machines representing latest and market-leading technologies:
The UCC594M stands for powerful electronically controlled double-jersey machinery, unrivaled in its high yield, and has therefore already become an integral part in the machinery of leading producers for mattress fabrics worldwide.

Dr Anup Rakshit took over as the Executive Director of Indian Technical Textile Association (ITTA), India.

Is 2015 a watershed year for the textile technologies? Is the ITMA 2015 a gamechanger for the global textile industry? Joseph S, who witnessed some developments at the Fiera Milano Rho, attempts to explore the sentiments that prevailed at the fairgrounds.

Smart textiles are fabrics incorporated with electronic components. They are used in various applications for monitoring, illumination, sensing, and communication purposes. They are also known as technical textiles or interactive textiles.

Deep in the southwestern corner of Germany, in a region known affectionately by locals as the ?Ländle?, ?the little country?, stands Weitmann & Konrad (Weko), the inventor of a non-contact rotor system for precise, metered application of liquids and chemicals to fabrics.

On time with ITMA 2015 the new market presence will be introduced in a new and modern design. The homepage as well as all print products have been adapted to the new philosophy. The complete appearance has been re-designed true to the motto ´Fascinating textile machinery´ with particular attention to the questions of resource efficiency and an even better explanation of the customers´ benefits.

Calvin Klein, Inc. and Premium Garments Wholesale Trading Pvt Ltd (a joint venture between Calvin Klein Inc. and Arvind Brands and Retail Ltd.), announced the opening of the new Calvin Klein Underwear store at High Street Phoenix in Mumbai.

KARL MAYER´s exhibition stand at the leading trade fair in Milan had a lighthouse effect: trend-setting, eye-catching even from some distance away and outstanding. At ITMA in Milan the innovative market leader in the fields of warp knitting and warp preparation machines presented in Hall 5, Stand C 101, expecting its guests with a futuristic stand, the first port of call for the trade.