The International OEKO-TEX® Association has introduced Georg Dieners as the new General Secretary. The trained textile engineer will take over from Dr Jean-Pierre Haug, who, after providing extensive training

Ambitious yarn spinners quickly learn that key performance indicators are closely linked with quality ´ especially at the higher levels of the market, as an example from China shows. Achieving consistent quality, reducing waste and avoiding the risk of packages ruined by outliers are critical objectives, attainable only by implementing systematic quality management.

In the first quarter of 2015, Oerlikon continued to deliver a solid performance in a challenging market environment. Order intake went up by 17.0 per cent to CHF 793 million and sales increased by 10.1 per cent to CHF 782 million. For the 13th consecutive quarter, the EBITDA margin exceeded 15 per cent, coming in at 16.8 per cent.

Since April 1, 2015, Peter Spiller has taken over the sales area from Horst Lüchinger, which is going to be retired. Spiller will be responsible for the sales and promotion of the well-known SSM products in the Far Eastern region. For more than sixteen years, Lüchinger earned large merits in organising and establishing SSM´s presence in the Far East.

KPR Mill from Coimbatore is planning to add a greenfield manufacturing facility of 36 million garment per annum capacity at an estimated cost of Rs 175 crore.

New dyes from Ahmedabad-based Colorant Ltd are said to use less water and energy, and decrease processing skills in comparison to conventional dyes, in a bid to tackle environmental and sustainability issues of the textile wet processing industry.

Savio India Ltd was set up with an intention of providing the world-class Savio products, specific to India?s textile market. With its corporate office located at Coimbatore with a strength of about 200 people and sales offices at Coimbatore, Ludhiana, Ahmedabad and Kolhapur, the company is presently serving the territory of India, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

Anders Jansson, CEO of Nordic marine energy technology company Minesto, finds the EU action on climate very encouraging and the most visionary major policy document ever produced in the renewable energy field, hopefully to be followed by other nations and regions outside the EU.

The requirement for technical nonwovens accounts for approximately 60 per cent of the entire nonwoven market worldwide. About half of these nonwovens are now produced in Asia. Oerlikon Neumag´s focus at this year´s ANEX and SINCE, from May 13-15 in Shanghai, was on nonwoven and meltblown plants for technical applications