FESPA has appointed two new board members – Thomas Struckmeier and Christophe Aussenac. The appointments were approved by the General Assembly of FESPA´s 37 member associations in Bangkok, Thailand.

Smart fabrics market is worth $1.6 billion, according to IFAI estimates. Jeff Rasmussen, Market Research Manager at IFAI, USA in speaking recently at the IFAI´s

The World of Wipes® (WOW) International Conference attracted a record number of wipes industry professionals from the entire wipes value chain at the annual conference held in Minneapolis, MN, June 2-5.

Excel Traders was established by TS Saravanan in 1999. The company provides integrated air coolers for the industrial segment.

Oerlikon generated a 15.6% EBITDA margin and sustained solid profitability even after absorbing the one-time integration costs and acquisition accounting effects from the Metco transaction.

KCT-TIFAC CORE in Textile Technology & Machinery of Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore Jointly with Department of Fashion Technology organised a workshop on ¨Woven and garment CAD

Data from China Customs showed that polyester filament yarn exports during September bucked the declining trend of August, climbing by 13.53 per cent, to 130, 661 tonnes, which was a jump of 23.74 per cent y-o-y too.

Alok Industries, which has built the biggest capacities in yarn, fabrics, processing and garments, accumulating a heavy burden of debts running into thousands of crores, has begun a serious exercise of consolidation.

The two-day Techtextil Symposium held recently in Mumbai´s The Lalit Hotel had an impressive line of presentations on the various aspects of technical textiles. Michael Janecke, Director (Brand Management)