As a leading supplier for textile machinery and components, Rieter focuses on low energy consumption and high raw material utilisation in the development of spinning machines. Customers thus profit from sustainably-producing machines.

Created in 1999 and globally patented by Freudenberg, Evolon® has been designed to substitute different kinds of knitted and woven fabrics. Evolon® is a unique microfilament fabric combining very good textile and mechanical properties.

Lectra has appointed Edwin Ingelaere as the director of Lectra Northern Europe. Ingelaere will be placed in Destelbergen, Belgium and will head a team of 35 people spread across nine countries, which include Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands), Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden) and the Baltics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania).

Linz Textil GmbH in Austria, Europe´s leading manufacturer of yarn and textile fabrics, is building a new, ultra-modern cotton-spinning mill in Landeck for producing very fine premium yarns of unsurpassed quality.

The Russian Government has announced on the website government that Prime Minister Medvedev has spoken to the Russian textile industry during a meeting in Ivanovo on 31 October 2014. Excerpt from Dmitry Medvedev´s remarks during a meeting on the textile industry:

With the Zinser 72, Schlafhorst has developed a generation of machines tailor-made precisely for the Indian market. The Indian textile industry is undergoing radical change.

The re-established Saurer Group looks back on 160 years of experience in improving production processes at different stages of the textile value chain.

Tirotex, Europe´s biggest textile company, has succeeded in overturning the practical limit on rotor spinning of 150,000 rpm that has been insurmountable for over 20 years.

Global yarn production increased in Q2/2014 compared to the previous quarter due to higher output in Asia, South and North America and despite a drop in Europe.