Dr NN Mahapatra, VP – BD, Colorant Ltd, has written a book titled ´Textile Technology´, which will be available for Rs 1,495.

Joining some of the world´s major cotton organisations, the Japan Cotton Traders´ Association (JCTA) has become a member of the International Cotton Association (ICA) and officially joined its ´safe trading´ community.

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.

Medical community and healthcare markets have much to gain by the growth of technical textiles industry, and India has only seen the tip of this vast potential for the domestic as well as global market, finds the Editor of The ITJ, reporting on an ITTA-organised seminar in Mumbai recently.

What we see today are onrush of innovations touching sustainability everywhere. ITMA may be the watershed year for the global textile industry to take this sustainability to a new higher level. Here are some innovations worth noting

ICA Bremen´s new and improved testing laboratory will be officially opened recently, by the German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Dr Gerd Müller.

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.

Apparels require greater care and hence good packaging. Due to rapidly changing style trends, the merchandise needs to reach the market on time as well´, affirms Jasjit Sethi

Let´s look at some examples in India and its neighbour, Bangladesh. Exploration Architecture, a company that specialises in biomimicry, has completed its design for a sustainable factory in Nagpur, India