The Germany-based Freudenberg Nonwovens Business Group has acquired the Hansel brand interlinings business from Germany-based interlinings specialist Hansel Textil GmbH.

Picanol of America has appointed Tom Johnston as new Sales Manager with immediate effect. In his new function, Johnston, who has wide international experience in the textile sector, will be responsible for the sales of Picanol weaving machines in the US.

Peter Cartwright joined Dow Corning in 1990, in Sales for Personal and Household Care in Reading, UK. He is currently the regional executive representative of Eastern Europe, India, the Middle East and African regions.

International Textile Fair (ITF) Dubai will be held between 3-4 November 2014 at Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai. ITF Dubai aims to be UAE´s premier platform for fashion fabrics and clothing accessories,Dilip Nihalani

DTG 2014´, the 11th Dhaka Int´l Textile & Garment Machinery Exhibition was organised jointly by the Bangladesh Textile Mills Association and Yorkers Trade & Marketing Service Co. Ltd., which received a tremendous response of 850 exhibitors from 31 countries occupying 1,020 booths.

The lace shown is full of surprises. At first glance, it appears opulent and hand-made but, on closer inspection, it has a filigree look, especially in the filled-in pattern areas.

Groz-Beckert sets new records all the time! After solutions were presented in 2007 for the production of fabrics in gauge E66, the company broke its own world record yet again four years later.

StSublis SAFIR S30 automatic drawing-in machine is a mobile drawing-in machine that travels along the stationary warp beam as it draws the filament yarn into the healds and reed.

Human Solutions Group has developed a new, contact-free bodyscanner to acquire the measurements of people in 3D. It is globally unique, that a scanatar is created in a fully-automatic process based on 3D depth sensors – and the scanatars dimensions