Quality control (QC) is the watchword in a competitive industry like textiles as it affects the user needs as well as profitability. It generally is a procedure (or) set of procedures intended to ensure that a manufactured product or a performed service adheres to a defined set of quality criteria or meets the requirements of the customer.

Loepfe´s 3N1 offers an additional detector for foreign matter and a triboelectric sensor for detection of synthetic foreign matter.

ZIP manufactures a wide range of fasteners, which are useful for textile machinery manufacturing units. Range of fasteners include: ring eye bolt, stay eye bolt, hex head bolt nut washers, full thread hex HD Sc, machine bolt, hex head, sq head type coach bolt wood Sc type threads.

Karl Mayer holds the title of being the market and technology leader and will be travelling, as always, to ITMA, after having made the best preparations ever. Karl Mayer is aiming to show seven new warp knitting machines in Milan, as well as new warp-knitted textiles, ideas for the after-sales sector and innovative warp preparation solutions ´ all under the company´s motto of ´We care about your future´.

Saurer and Reyes Groupe are pleased to announce the sale of some Verdol assets to Saurer. Reyes Groupe has concluded the deal of selling its Verdol parts and service business to the Saurer Business Unit Allma Volkmann. This deal is a win-win solution for the two companies.

Core yarns, which are used for woven and knitted stretch fabrics, consist of at least two different components.
Stretch fabrics become more and more popular in clothing industry. Not only sports fashion but also day-to-day garments have a better fit and retain their shapes, when elastic yarns are used.

Recently, the 5th International Textile Conference at SSM College of Engineering, Komarapalayam, Erode was organised jointly with the Textile Association (India), Erode unit. The theme of the conference was ?Emerging Trends in Textile Industry: New Innovations 2015´. Subhash Bhargava, Technocrat and MD, Colorant Ltd, was the Special Guest of Honour and Dr NN Mahapatra, Vice President, Business Development was the keynote speaker.

Techtextil India—the premier business event for the technical textile and nonwovens industry players in India—will return to Mumbai this September with a host of new innovations and latest market insight of the technical textiles and nonwovens. The event is being organised by Messe Frankfurt Trade Fairs India Pvt Ltd and is part of the company´s international portfolio of 45 fairs that highlight innovations and show what is driving the global textile industry.

China´s cotton imports fell 62.3 per cent in July from a year ago to 1,05,700 tonne. Imports by China, the world´s top cotton consumer, are already down by 33 per cent this year to less than 1 mt after the government issued fewer quotas in a bid to boost demand for domestic fibre.