DuPont´ Industrial Biosciences was recognized for its Sorona® biopolymer development with the 2015 Breakthrough Bio-Based Technology Platform award in Amsterdam recently.

Jashn is the flagship company of the father-son team of Chander and Rahuul Jashnani, and draws its name from an abbreviation of their last name.

The latest statistics show a gloomy period for South America´s fabric manufacturing industry in the third quarter of 2014 with production falling by 11.4 per cent compared to the previous year.

IRO AB of Sweden has presented the Star G2, which incorporates many of the latest feeder developments into one neat package.

Italian clothing giant Benetton has has announced it will contribute to the Rana Plaza Trust Fund, almost two years since more than 1100 people, mostly garment workers, were killed when the eight-storey Rana Plaza complex collapsed. According to Benetton, the new donation to the trust fund is the second stage of its commitments to supporting Rana Plaza victims.

The single-drive technology of the Autocoro 8 is catapulting the automation of the rotor spinning mill into a new dimension. This intelligent technology relieves spinning mills of the burden of organizational tasks.

Dhaka Int´l Textile & Garment Machinery Exhibition is being organized jointly by Bangladesh Textile Mills Association and Yorkers Trade & Marketing Service Co Ltd, and Chan Chao International Co Ltd, which was the 12th in the series and which received a tremendous response of 880 exhibitors from 32 countries occupying 1060 booths.

Groz-Beckert and Bekaert signed an agreement regarding the acquisition of Bekaert´s Carding Solutions activities by Groz-Beckert. The division has around 350 employees. Owing to the acquisition Groz-Beckert expands his existing service programme for card clothing by a corresponding product portfolio.

S Haig Zeronian is the 2015 recipient of the Olney Medal, the highest award presented by AATCC for outstanding lifetime achievement in a field of textile science.