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.

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.