Asia’s premier fair for the home textiles industry concluded recently, with new records set for exhibitor, visitor and exhibition space figures. Over 43,000 trade buyers (2014: 43,189) attended Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles – Autumn Edition 2015, which was held for the first time at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) across 170,520 sqm (2014: 150,400).

This technical article from the series ¨Higher profitability with Rieter complete systems¨ deals with automatic rotor spinning. The US market, resurgent in recent years, was selected as the location for the economic analysis, which also examines the issue of flexibility in detail.

TUFS, when launched in 1999, had an objective to grow India´s iconic textile industry and to a certain stage it did achieve that purpose.

Sustainability is very much in the air all over the world. Every country, however small representation it has in textile machinery segment, is concerned with sustainability.

Wolfgang Schöffl is new Head of weaving machinery and member of the extended Board of Lindauer DORNIER GmbH. He succeeds Michael Ebeling

Gandhi Automations Pvt Ltd is India’s leading entrance automation and loading bay equipment company, offering high speed doors. High speed doors, designed and manufactured by Gandhi Automations, are sturdy, dependable and are an ideal solution for medium and large entrances. The doors are manufactured with European collaboration and technology with innovative and creative engineering.

In the second quarter of 2015, Oerlikon Group´s order intake increased by 1% to CHF 731 million compared to CHF 724 million in Q2 2014. ¨We delivered solid profitability for the second quarter despite an increasingly challenging market environment.

TUF scheme of the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India can be cited as one of the best examples to demonstrate the influence of government fiscal policy and focused financial assistance

Asia´s purified terephthalic acid (PTA) industry is expected to come under increasing pressure in 2016 as India adds 2.3 mt to its production capacity in the first half of 2016, industry sources said.