This year Staubli has produced Jacquard fabrics on four weaving machines at its ITMA Asia stand for the first time. As a noteworthy premier, Staubli demonstrated the production of lining fabric on the world´s most modern Jacquard machine, the type SX, in conjunction with a water-jet weaving machine operating at a rate of over 1,000 weft insertions per minute.

With an aim to grab one-fifth of the global textile business and increase exports to $300 billion in the next decade, the Government proposes to rejig labour laws, make special efforts to attract foreign investment and enter new markets with high export potential, such as Japan, China, Brazil and Russia.

The Synthetic & Art Silk Mills´ Research Association (SASMIRA), established in 1950, is a co-operative venture set up by the man-made textile industry of India as a multi-functional institute to serve its scientific and technological needs. Major projects executed in the last few years include technical textile

Sutlej Textiles and Industries Ltd (STIL), a company promoted by Dr KK Birla, is an integrated textile manufacturer with presence across the value chain, from yarn to fabric to home textiles. STIL is a one-stop-shop for all kinds of spun yarn from natural or manmade fibres

During texturing, with the increase of D/Y ratio, yarn denier and tenacity decrease while the breaking strain increases, find Dhavale AJ and Sarda NR. Texturing is the process of imparting the comfort characteristics such as voluminousness, luxuriousness, bulkiness, good dimensional stability, etc.

The Cotton Association of India (CAI), the apex body for India´s cotton sector, will hold a conference, -´COTTON INDIA 2014´ from 24-26 November 2014 at the Renaissance Mumbai Convention Centre Hotel, Mumbai, India. This conference will be attended by a large number of delegates from across the globe especially the Indian subcontinent. Eminent speakers will share their experience and expertise.

The Bombay Textile Research Association (BTRA) and The Geosynthetic Institute (GSI), Folsom, USA have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 6th September 2014 to establish a division known as ´GSI-INDIA

Proper and timely lubrication plays an important role in equipment maintenance, and contribute to improved machine uptime, productivity and quality of output and in reduced cost of maintenance. Considering the importance of proper and timely lubrication, A.T.E. has devised a specialised training on lubrication for textile processing units.

Spinning has remained as an indispensable preliminary step to fabric formation in spite of many technological developments that provide the means to achieve direct conversion of fibres to fabrics. Ever since the spinning wheel was invented in India, first of the kinds of automation effort towards mechanisation