Maharashtra has planned to set up a special textile park to create eco-friendly textile and lend assistance for establishing such industries.

AUTEFA Solutions delivers turn-key lines as well as individual machines for nonwovens manufacturing. Application fields are the production of artificial leather, filter products and paper-machine felts, automotive felts, geotextiles, floor coverings, felts for insulation and nonwovens for the hygiene industry.

Gary Cornell was recently elected as Vice-Chair of the Society for Automotive Engineering (SAE) Textile and Flexible Plastics Committee. Cornell is currently the Global Manager of Standards, Quality & Calibration for Q-Lab, where he directs the company´s quality system, standards compliance, calibrations, and audits.

The Autoconer was the first automatic winding machine in history and each of its new machine generations caused quite a sensation in the textile industry. Now it is happening again: Equipped with improved process intelligence, the new Autoconer 6 boasts powerful innovations, a noticeable increase in productivity and best energy efficiency.

Following successful verification in accordance with the Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) sustainability standard, the Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF) will now be involved in sustainable cotton farming in North-Western Ethiopia, supporting over 9,000 smallholder farmers.

For over 150 years, Benninger AG has been a worldwide leader in the development and manufacture of high-tech machines and systems for textile finishing and the production of tyre cord, which the company offers as complete system solutions.

Siemens is expanding its RFID product range, Simatic RF600, with new transponders that have considerably greater memory capacities and a compact mobile read/write device. With a capacity of 4 KB, the new UHF RFID data carriers, RF622T and RF622L, enable large volumes of data to be stored on tagged object as well as facilitating rapid access to them.

Sunlight is the inherent source of energy reaching the earth´s surface. Approximately 5 per cent of the incident sunlight constitutes ultraviolet radiations. The UV spectrum present in the sunlight has shorter wavelength ranging from 280 nm?400 nm.

The German textile finshing machine specialist A. Monforts Textilmaschinen offers new and advanced components for the treatment of technical textiles in finishing and coating processes. The Eco-Applicator, for example, offers significant energy savings for a wide range of technical textile applications.