Céline Choussy Bedouet has been chosen as new Chief Marketing Officer of Lectra, the world leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using soft materials. Bedouet, who was previously Marketing Director for Automotive and Furniture, will now cover all of Lectra´s markets.

Renowned chef Sanjeev Kapoor, at the recent HGH India 2015 annual trade held at the Bombay Convention and Exhibition Centre, announced Tangerine as its authorised licensee to sell select Sanjeev Kapoor branded products like table and kitchen linen.

Manufacturing International quality denim products since 1992, Spykar Jeans is soon launching many exciting things for its customers and potential customers in the market by providing them more comfort and evolving its services to a next level. Spykar has been proactive in participating in major events and college festivals.

Following an illustrious career that has spanned over three and a half decades at Supima, Jesse W Curlee, President/CEO, has announced to the Supima Board of Directors that he will retire effective December 31, 2015. Curlee´s stewardship of the organisation during his tenure has covered a remarkable career of more than 36 years of service to Supima, its producer members and the American Pima cotton industry.

The first R 35 rotor spinning machine in India was commissioned at Saranya Spinning Mill Pvt Ltd in Namakkal (Fig 1). This spinning mill already has experience with the former R 923 model and evaluates the innovations of the R 35 as distinctive advantages.

Messe Frankfurt France is launching Avantex, a trade fair dedicated to high-tech fabrics for fashion and to research in that field, highlighting intelligent, connected fabrics, materials which combine nanotechnology and cosmetics, and surprising finishes and coatings

Teijin Frontier Co Ltd, the Teijin Group´s fibre-product converting company, announced that it has developed an all-new, highly comfortable and functional polyester material that achieves the pile structure of toweling.

Rising labour costs, among other reasons, have driven Chinese manufacturers to set up operations in Southeast Asian countries. A study by ANZ Bank economists suggest that Southeast Asia would take over from China to become the ´world´s factory´ in the next 10-15 years, citing its youthful workforce and strategic location as catalysts for this shift.

Founded in 1835 as a family business, Bräcker AG soon developed into a specialist for key products in the textile industry. Bräcker as technology leader with its own structures in development, production and marketing, supplies: top performance ring/traveller systems for ring spinning machines, inserting tools, cleaning devices, spinning tubes, cots & aprons, and maintenance machines.