A large number of Indian visitors from textile & garment manufacturing industries are registered to visit ITMA 2015 almost four months in advance, said Om Prakash, Director, In ORBIT Tours Pvt. Ltd.

A couple of doctors I met recently confessed that even the medical fraternity, except for a few sophisticated and high-tech hospitals, disregard hygiene norms and one doctor uses the same surgical gown used by another, throwing to the winds all the norms for infection control.

The importance of efficiently loading goods has always been evident. It has only increased with the years. Higher cost of skilled manpower consequently causes the necessity of hiring less qualified personnel. The cost of the goods is made up by the costs of raw materials´ production, storage, loading and shipment to the destination.

INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, has recognised Thomas W Federle, Ph.D., Research Fellow at Procter & Gamble, with its prestigious 2015 Lifetime Technical Achievement Award. This award is given to individuals with long established technical careers in the nonwovens industry and technical innovation.

COTTON USA, the trademark ingredient brand of Cotton Council International (CCI), has announced its first retail partnership with India´s leading fashion retailer ´ Shoppers Stop. COTTON USA and Shoppers Stop will conduct a monthlong in-store promotion aimed at increasing consumer awareness of U.S. cotton-rich apparel, and gradually move toward creating an exclusive line of labeled merchandise.

The Segment Manmade Fibers of the Swiss Technology group Oerlikon will be opening an additional service centre in Dalton, Georgia, the heart of the American carpet industry. The official opening will take place on August 13, 2015. ´

What has textile technology got to do with aircraft manufacture? In fact, quite a few Swiss textile machinery companies would be able to answer that question, as aerospace is just one of the high-profile ´ and extremely demanding ´ business segments in which their products play a key role.

On the occasion of Techtextil in Frankfurt the Walter Reiners-Stiftung (foundation) honoured three successful young engineers. The prize-winning papers are best practice examples and range from technologies for the fabrication of fibre composites over a modelling approach of a parachute to the development of textile implants for the treatment of bone fractures.

Apparel Training & Design Centre (ATDC), India´s largest quality vocational training provider for the apparel industry, was awarded ´Best Training Institution-National´ by Education Award (Franchise India) at ´Indian Education Awards 2015´ recently at a function held in Taj Vivanta, Surajkund.