Antimicrobial textile products continue to rise in popularity chart as demand for fresh-smelling, skin-friendly, and high performance fabrics keeps growing, emphasises Pooja D Gujar.

Fulvio Carlo Toma is the Group Sales & Marketing Director at Itema S.p.A. since April 2013 leading corporate marketing and commercial departments and setting the strategy geared to consolidate and grow the global weaving manufacturer´s competitive position worldwide. A high-profile manager with a long track record and broad expertise

With the product label ¨Made in Green by OEKO-TEX-¨, the Switzerland-based OEKO-TEX Association presents a new certification for textiles proven to be safe in terms of human ecology and that are additionally produced in a sustainable and socially responsible manner. The label replaces the previous certification system OEKO-TEX Standard 100plus and the Spanish mark ¨Made in Green by Aitex.

The technical textile industry in India is seriously getting down to business; first, the membership of the Indian Technical Textile Association (ITTA) has gone up by 48 to over 240, and there are signs of more coming in in the days to come.

Established in 1988, Symphony leverages a unique and successful asset-light business model for its residential coolers in India and in-house lean manufacturing for its industrial coolers in Mexico to achieve sustainable and profitable growth.

Jin lian Hu has obtained PhD from UMIST (now University of Manchester). She joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1994. She teaches a broad range of subjects such as structure and mechanics of textiles, testing and evaluation of textiles and clothing, quality assurance, textile technology and material sciences, as well as hi-tech and non-apparel textiles.

BASF India Limited has inaugurated its large-scale chemical production complex at Dahej, Gujarat. With a project cost of Rs 1,000 crore, the site represents BASF´s single largest investment in India. The site was jointly inaugurated by Anandiben Patel, Hon´ble Chief Minister of Gujarat; Saurabhbhai Patel, Hon´ble Minister for Finance, Energy and Petrochemicals, Government of Gujarat and Michael Heinz.

This year Shanghai appeared as a platform for the international textile industry and the nonwovens industry. First the combined ITMA Asia and CITME show took place in June and then shortly afterwards in September the CINTE Techtextil China fair.

Kolhapur region boasts of overall development of industrial sector. The industrial units comprises of sugar, textiles and automobiles. The region experienced growth of textile sector in the last decade and still it is continued.