Gujarat is the largest producer of cotton and also the largest producer of art silk manmade textile. Cotton-based textile industry is mainly targeted at both domestic and export market whereas art silk synthetic textiles is mainly focused on the domestic market, which is growing at 15 per cent.

With the election of Regina Brückner, Managing Associate of Brückner Trockentechnik, for the first time in its long history the VDMA Textile Machinery Association will be chaired by a woman.

The increasing demand of quality textile products at competitive rates has not only made way for high performance textile manufacturing and processing machineries but also forced concerned industrialists to upgrade their existing system, to high end automated setup, which ensures high productivity along with desired quality.

One of the oldest textile businesses in India, Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Company, is selling the last of its textile manufacturing units, as competition from the unorganised sectors, growing imports from Taiwan, China and Bangladesh have rendered its factory nonviable.

Pothys is one of the largest chains of textile showrooms operating in South India with a net worth of over Rs 100 crore. Pothys displays and sells a wide range of high quality silk garments and sarees and their flagship store is located in Chennai.

A new dry suit fabric developed by ContiTech offers maximum protection and the greatest possible level of safety in and under water. At the same time, the coated fabric offers maximum wear comfort, as it is extremely lightweight and pleasingly flexible.

Does going organic make better business sense in textiles? This is one of the major questions that pop up today in every meeting bordering on sustainability in textiles. The humanity has to draw a line somewhere and say such & such textile products are harmless to the skin, environment and to life itself.

World demand for silicones is forecast to rise 5.7 per cent per year to $19.3 billion in 2019. The pace of growth in value terms will be in line with that seen over the 2009-2014 period, largely due to an improved outlook for silicone prices.

India´s economic growth has been accelerating in recent years, although it is still below the 10 per cent rate achieved in fiscal year 2010-11. Under the newly-revised series of national accounts released in January 2015, real GDP growth was 6.9 per cent in 2013-14 and estimated to be around 7.4 per cent in 2014-15; these revised figures show a more positive trend and outlook than that based on the previous series.