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.

On April 6, 2015, the inauguration ceremony of the Rieter Test & Training Centre was held at the DKTE Society´s Textile and Engineering Institute in Ichalkaranji, India. The Test & Training Centre has been developed in an exclusive cooperation with D.K.T.E. and highlights the latest Rieter J 20 air-jet spinning machine.

As a part of its marketing activity for 2015, SAVIO took the opportunity to refresh and update the customers on the developments and new implementations at SAVIO through series of seminars in prominent areas like Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh.

Mesdan is a renowned manufacturer of yarn splicers and testing equipment. The division manufacturing laboratory testing equipment, known as Mesdan-Lab, displayed its products in two halls: Hall W4, booth K30 and Hall E1, booth C50.

Since the last ITMA edition, the global textile and garment industry has made rapid strides and evolved tremendously with technological innovations. And 2015 being the Year of Sustainability, the organisers have done well to make this as the main theme ´ Master the Art of Sustainable Innovation.

Some States have upped their ante in textiles, declaring it a ´sunrise industry´ and by improving infrastructure and policies, they promise to lend a helping hand to the Indian Government´s efforts to carve out a bigger slice in global textile trade. Joseph S and Karthik M recount the story with details.

The Swiss textile machinery group within Swissmem elected a new president during their meeting held end of May. After the resignation of Peter Gnägi, who has been member of the board since 2002 and president since 2013, the members of the group elected Ernesto Maurer as his successor.

In line with the GOTS´ policy to work for the benefit of the organic textile community worldwide and adopt latest changes and innovations, GOTS has released a 20 minutes short video outlining the new criteria and specifications or clarifications of differences between GOTS Version 3.0 and 4.0.

InspirOn Engineering Pvt Ltd, a manufacturer of Motex® model of Stenters at Ahmedabad and Batliboi Ltd, a multifaceted Engineering organisation with offices all over India, have entered into a strategic marketing alliance with effect from May 1, 2015. Batliboi will market Motex® and other recently developed ´InspirOn´ stenters.