ITMA returning to Milan after a gap of 20 years has kindled the high hopes of the Italian textile machinery industry. Already, the first quarters of 2015 has brought in new hopes for the industry with the order book showing a moderate growth of 8 per cent.

Seeing the low penetration and high growth potential, Taiwanese companies are eagerly looking at the Indian market for technical textile products. Rising labour costs in China too is forcing some of these companies to consider manufacturing in India.

More than 1,100 decision-makers of the Iranian textile and carpet industry as well as 36 leading German textile machinery and accessories manufacturers participated in the VDMA textile machinery conference from April 21-22 in Tehran.

Oerlikon Barmag is one of two companies worldwide that deliver machine solutions for the production of HMLS yarn. The material is extremely tear resistant, but elastic and temperature as well as dimensionally stable. It is predominantly used in high-speed tyres, which´as a result of the high speeds achieved´are subjected to particularly high loads.

The Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers (ACIMIT) is a private non-profit making body whose main purpose consists in promoting the Italian textile machinery sector.

High-performance fibres are those fibres, which offer exceptional strength, heat and chemical resistance. High performance fibres are niche products but some of them are manufactured in large quantities according to the demand from end-user industries.

Thirty seven delegates from all sectors of the global cotton industry have successfully completed the International Cotton Association´s (ICA) annual training programme, Complete Cotton.

The nonwovens industry in India is still at an early stage of development, although some well-known companies have invested in nonwovens. The CoE aims at advancing the development of the industry in nonwovens. For this reason, institute management decided two years ago to invest in a complete needling line.

ITMA returning to Milan after a gap of 20 years has kindled the high hopes of the Italian textile machinery industry. Already, the first quarters of 2015 has brought in new hopes for the industry with the order book showing a moderate growth of 8 per cent.