The Lenzing Group (Lenzing) redefined TENCEL, as its textile premium brand at the 2018 Fibers & Yarns in Mumbai. The redefining of the TENCEL brand is a key milestone of Lenzing’s new brand strategy to enhance product brand offerings, foster connection with customers and consumers, and drive consumer demand.

For two years, the textile industry has been looking forward with great interest to ITM 2018 International Textile Machinery Exhibition, held on April 14-17.

Nearly 85 top executives of leading spinning mills of India followed the Nitin Spinners Ltd and Rieter invitation to have a close impression of complete system installation of Rieter compact spinning machine. This two-day event the participants had the opportunity to have deep interactions on advantages of Rieter Systems.

Stäubli, a renowned global provider of weaving solutions, is set to show its current range of machinery at IGATEX 2018 expo, in Pakistan, which will be held from April 26 to 29, 2018. The Swiss company will be seen at 11th international exhibition and conference for garment and textile industry to be held at the Lahore expo centre.

The Dinh Vu Polyester fibre plant (PVTex) in Vietnam has resumed operations of three production lines and is expected to produce 189 tonnes of yarn in a month’s span. The plant which comes under the ministry of industry and trade is being revived as the government has planned to deal with the problems of various such loss-making enterprises.

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Vietnam Chemicals Agency, ministry of industry and trade recently held the inception workshop of a project called the ‘Application of Green Chemistry in Vietnam to support green growth and reduction in the use and release of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and hazardous chemicals’.

In a bid to transform Gujarat from a fabric manufacturing hub to apparel manufacturing hub, textile players are organising a three-day expo ‘Farm to Fashion’ from May 4 in Ahmedabad.

ITM 2018, the seventh edition, held at Istanbul in Turkey witnessed over 50,000 visitors’ footfalls, bringing smiles on the faces of around 1,500 exhibitors, covering technologies in the entire range of textile machinery and accessories and also yarn producers.

Held every four years since 1951, ITMA has reinforced its reputation as the world’s leading textile and garment technology exhibition. Exhibition space for its 18th showcase to be held in Barcelona has been fully booked by the application deadline of 6 April 2018.