CINTE Techtextil China is to be held from September 4 to 6, 2018 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. China is the world’s largest producer of manmade fibres. In 2016, China’s output of manmade fibres was 49.44 million tons, accounting for more than 70 per cent of global output.

Shree – The Indian Avatar has observed almost 1,500 per cent growth in demand for its garments made from Liva fabrics. Owing to the rise in demand of Liva, the new age fluid fabric from the Aditya Birla Group, Shree now boasts a production of 2,50,000 garments per month made from Liva from just 15,000 garments per month.

Encouraging and empowering women entrepreneurs from rural areas of Maharashtra, Dow India partnered with the Mann Deshi Foundation to conduct the Mann Deshi Mahotsav, an annual community festival that was held in Mumbai from January 4 – 7, 2018.

A joint venture between the state-owned Algerian companies Groupe C&H, TEXALG, SNTA and the Turkish Group TAY, with more than forty years of experience in textiles, has been founded to build one of the biggest textile mills in the world.

SANITIZED AG has presented a new unique dimension to odour-management for functional polyester textiles. The newly developed wash-resistant Sanitized® odouractiv 10 has a dual-action effect: on the one hand it prevents the bacteria from docking on the textile, and on the other, it adsorbs odours whilst the garment is being worn.

Cotton Egypt Association has unveiled a new brand identity and digital platform to re-enforce Egyptian Cottonâ„¢ as the finest cotton in the world.

Following on from the success of the 2016 event , UNITEX in collaboration with ESMA plans to organise the 5th edition of the international Digital Textile Congress 2018, entitled: “Digital Plugin for the Textile Factory of the Future.

A conference entitled “Additive manufacturing for the textile industry“ was held at KARL MAYER’s premises in Obertshausen, Germany.

Cost-efficient production of carpet yarns beyond commodity products can constitute a challenge. Highly standardised production systems must strike compromises with regard to throughput, quality or cost-efficiency.