Fulvio Carlo Toma (FCT): The year 2014 has been a tough year for the weaving machinery industry but, despite the slowdown of the market, we, at Itema are more than satisfied with our performance. We registered an increase in the number of weaving machines sold compared to the previous year, and this itself is a hugely significant result considering the brilliant growth Itema obtained in 2013 and the decline in the market.

Huntsman Textile Effects has extended its range of high-performance TERASIL® dyes to now provide economical, robust and reliable exhaust dyeing of polyester, polyester/cotton and microfibre and elastane blends.

Dr Jiri Militky is a senior professor of Textile Science at the Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic. From 1991 to 1993, he was in the position of vice chancellor for foreign relations, and from 1994 till 2000, he was dean of the textile faculty.

Trevira has considerably intensified its activities in the area of brand control. The control measures involve not only monitoring flame retardancy, the feature safeguarded by trademark testing, they also include chemical tests and analyses.

The fabrics comprise a piezoelectric poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA) and carbon fibre electrode.
Cu Kansai University and Teijin announced that Professor Yoshiro Tajitsu, Faculty of Engineering Science, Kansai University, and Teijin have developed the world´s first polylactic acid (PLA) fibre-and carbon-fibre-based piezoelectric fabrics.

The wide format industry is changing, and the business owners who are most optimistic about the future are those who understand that they need to identify ways to add new applications or acquire new customers.

When it´s cold and wet outside, a reliable protection is of precious value. Those who not only care about perfect equipment, but also about sustainability like the idea of ecorepel®: The ecological way to repel water and mud.

´We are basically a high research-based company. We have developed a compact system that can improve the productivity in spinning tremendously. The productivity can go up by up to 30 per cent. The payback for this system is only 13 months. We have already many installations in Pakistan and Turkey,´ said Jackson Xie, Market and Sales Manager of WUXI Universal First Precision Technology Co Ltd (UFP), China, which has a tie-up with Chiven Spinning, Coimbatore.

ANDRITZ Nonwoven, part of international technology Group ANDRITZ, has received an order to supply a complete wetlace line to the leading Turkish nonwovens producer Akinal Sentetik Tekstil. The highly flexible ANDRITZ technology combines wet forming and hydroentanglement and is especially suitable for the production of flushable wipes that are dispersible and 100 per cent biodegradable without any chemical binder.