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

Rieter´s focus on innovation, expansion of parts business and increase of profitability is its new priority.Following on the 2012-13 investment programme and the resulting enhancement of its global presence

A current research project sponsored by the Alliance for Industrial Research and running until the start of 2016 is working on developing innovative reusable operating theatre textiles which are more comfortable to wear and at the same time more durable because they can be cleaned in a gentler process.

The fabric and yarn manufacturer Century Rayon, Shahad (a division of Century Textiles & Industries Limited, the flagship company of B. K. Birla Group of companies), has become the first textile company in India to be awarded with the STeP by OEKO-TEX« Certificate for Sustainable Textile Production.

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

With more than 1,500 C 70 cards sold, the success story of carding on wide Rieter cards continues. Experience in the field confirms the high productivity of the C 70 card for both fine- and coarse-count yarns. Sales of more than 6,000 1.5-metre C60

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).