Inaugurated by Geert Bourgeois, Minister-President of the Government of Flanders, the new training centre measures about 600 m¦ and also houses a guest centre and several meeting rooms.

On 9 October 2014, Gerold Fleissner, the pioneer of textile, man-made fibre and nonwovens industry, turned 90. In 1984, Fleissner took over the general management of the company with more than 800 employees, after his brother had died.

Atlas Copco has recently appointed Zhen Chen as General Manager of Atlas Copco Product Company, Pune (India). In his new mission, Zhen will be responsible for the company´s operations at Pune, including both manufacturing facilities – Dapodi and Chakan.

After the economic slowdown of 2008-09 in which the global textile industry lost much of its steam, there came a whiff of fresh air in the industry last year. But again the uncertainty persisted for some time till the new Government at the Centre gave some hopes a few months back.

An electronic Jacquard machine allows many ways to set the shed openings, and a harness can be leveled either this way or the other. However, achieving optimal quality when weaving a specific type of fabric on a specific weaving machine requires suitable equipment and proper setting of these parameters.

The use of nanotechnology in the textile industry has increased rapidly due to its unique and valuable properties, affirm Tanveer Malik and TK Sinha.
Finishing is the final step in the fabric manufacturing process, the last chance to provide the properties that customer will value.

Clothing needs to be designed with safety in mind if escalators and playgrounds are not to become a death trap for children. The DIN EN 14682 standard “Safety of children’s clothing – Cords and drawstrings on children’s clothing” contains recommendations how garments for kids aged up to 14 years should be designed.

Acche Din´ for the Indian textile industry seemed to have come true, when the curtains came down after lively presentations and debates addressing an audience of over 400 on the second day of the 8th Asian Textile Conference (Atexcon), organised recently by the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) at the Westin Hotel in Mumbai.

Picanol, technological market leader in both airjet and rapier weaving machines, organised an open house in Daegu (Korea) from 6-8 October 2014. This event, which is aimed at Korean weavers, will see Picanol demonstrating its latest rapier technology