INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, wrapped up its ninth annual World of Wipes® International Conference, June 16-19, with the presentation of the World of Wipes Innovation Award to The Clorox Company and record conference attendance.

In 1996, the embroidery company Brands Polska sp. z.o.o. in the village of Somonino, near Gdansk in Poland was founded and continuously expanded with new finishing techniques. In 2002, Brands Fashion GmbH was founded as a textile trade and service company in the town of Buchholz in Lower Saxony, Germany with an extensive network of suppliers in Europe, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia and Pakistan.

BRÃœCKNER, a worldwide leading manufacturer of textile finishing lines, received recently a delegation of textile finishers from Bangladesh. Among them were not only standing customers but also interested executives of growing textile companies.

B Mothilal, PG Scholar, Apparel Technology, Department of Fashion Technology, Kumaraguru College of Technology presented a paper and received Best Project and Best Paper award for his project on ´Design and Development of Non-Woven Medical Apparel from Wrightia Tinctoria Fiber´ carried out under the guidance of Dr G Ramakrishnan, Senior Associate Professor, Department of Fashion Technology, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore.

A large number of Indian visitors from textile & garment manufacturing industries are registered to visit ITMA 2015 almost four months in advance, said Om Prakash, Director, In ORBIT Tours Pvt. Ltd.

A couple of doctors I met recently confessed that even the medical fraternity, except for a few sophisticated and high-tech hospitals, disregard hygiene norms and one doctor uses the same surgical gown used by another, throwing to the winds all the norms for infection control.

The importance of efficiently loading goods has always been evident. It has only increased with the years. Higher cost of skilled manpower consequently causes the necessity of hiring less qualified personnel. The cost of the goods is made up by the costs of raw materials´ production, storage, loading and shipment to the destination.

INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, has recognised Thomas W Federle, Ph.D., Research Fellow at Procter & Gamble, with its prestigious 2015 Lifetime Technical Achievement Award. This award is given to individuals with long established technical careers in the nonwovens industry and technical innovation.

COTTON USA, the trademark ingredient brand of Cotton Council International (CCI), has announced its first retail partnership with India´s leading fashion retailer ´ Shoppers Stop. COTTON USA and Shoppers Stop will conduct a monthlong in-store promotion aimed at increasing consumer awareness of U.S. cotton-rich apparel, and gradually move toward creating an exclusive line of labeled merchandise.