Ryan Smith joins the Miller Weldmaster team as Outside Sales Rep for Miller Weldmaster´s western region. In this capacity, Smith will be responsible for spearheading business solution strategies, enhancing customer relations, and building new business relationships.

Bruce Atherley, who most recently served as vice president, Global Marketing for KAO, Inc, has been named executive director of Cotton Council International (CCI), effective October 1.

Despite historically low prime interest rates in the industrial nations, in many regions of the earth very high capital costs still prevail. For the affected customers, the question of the optimal design of their spinning mill in relation to the degree of automation and flexibility therefore still continues to be raised. Both factors have a significant influence on the investment sum and the associated capital costs over the depreciation period.

We have come a long way from our grass and animal hide wearing ancestors to the jeans and thongs wearing youngsters of today. The driver for this change has been largely due to a socio-cultural phenomenon called ´fashion´. Even a thousand years ago, specific styles of attire differed from one culture to another.

James Nute joined the Miller Weldmaster team on August 1, 2014 and is putting his two decades of sales and marketing experience to work as the sales manager for Miller Weldmaster´s alternative distribution department. He is responsible for sales and service in the company´s eastern U.S. sales territory and implementing the sales and marketing transition of the Sinclair Equipment product line into Miller Weldmaster.

Another bumper crop of cotton is in offing and tremors are felt already on the price front. The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) is getting ready for yet another year of minimum support price (MSP) operations.

Textile Commissioner Mrs Kiran Soni Gupta inaugurated the three-day Techtextil India exhibition for the technical textiles and non-wovens industry in Mumbai on Thursday, September 24, 2015.

The seventh edition of Yarnex and fourth edition of TexIndia, will take place concurrently from September 10-12, 2015, at the India Knit Fair Complex in Tirupur.

Spykar Lifestyles Pvt. Ltd is all set to roll its Autumn-Winter 2015 collection across its standalone retail outlets and 1290 MBOs.