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Cary, North Carolina: The latest technology innovations in engineered fabrics will find practical market applications through connections made at INDA?s Research, Innovation & Science for Engineered Fabrics (RISE®) conference, January 25-28 at the Le Méridien Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana.

There were 59 Spanish exhibiting companies at ITMA in Milan, of which 33 are associated to amec amtex, Spanish Textile Machinery Manufacturers Association.

Organic cotton is now being grown in Colombia for the first time, thanks to a pioneering project initiated by German company, La Siesta, which has been manufacturing hammocks using organic cotton since 2008. Organic cotton has been grown in Latin America since the 1990s, starting in Peru, and is also grown in Brazil, Paraguay and in central America, Nicaragua.

Weaving industry has been progressing well in the last couple of years. The first boom was in 2004 and 2005, when weaving attracted a lot of investment. Then it slowed a bit. Again in 2012, one more boom period started.

Through our extensive market research, we have understood the demand of technical textile products in developed countries have reached to stagnancy level now and market is shifting to developing counties, says Avinash Mayekar, MD & CEO of Suvin Advisors Pvt Ltd, in an interview with the ITJ.

Andreas Hannes (46) completed a degree course in Business Administration with focus on Marketing at the Fachschule für Wirtschaft in Dillenburg. He has worked as Marketing Manager for Sedo Treepoint since 1995.

Mayer & Cie. is a world-leading manufacturer of circular knitting machines. For 110 years, the owner-managed family firm has been at home in the Swabian Alb, the location of the market and technology leader’s head office to this day – in Albstadt, where the knitting machines are, for the most part, manufactured. The company’s central administration and research and development (R&D) department are also in Albstadt.