Higher levels of productivity, opportunity and growth that fuel customer success reflect the key advantages on display from Electronics For Imaging Inc at this year’s FESPA exhibition, which was held from May 8-12 in Hamburg, Germany.

Enterprises Dürkopp Adler AG, PFAFF Industriesysteme und Maschinen GmbH, Beisler and KSL presented state-of-the-art industrie 4.0 solutions at a joint booth at the Texprocess fair.

For 30 years, Sandler AG has been an innovative partner of the hygiene industry. The nonwovens manufacturer celebrated this anniversary with a special booth design at this year’s INDEX, which was held from April 4-7 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Itema finalised the agreements to acquire 61 per cent of shares in Lamiflex, leading supplier of technical composite products, and a minority stake in NoeCha, provider of high-tech, wide-format printing solutions.

Indian consumers spending on apparel and footwear is expected to hit $70 billion by 2020, up from $63 billion for the year ended March 2017, according to a new report by retail insight company, Fung Global Retail and Technology.

With the demand to import more than $10 billion worth of apparel products each year, Russia is a market with potential for Vietnamese garment-textile businesses.

Inspired by bright global market prospects for smart textile products, the Taiwan Textile Research Institute has helped establish the Taiwan Smart Textiles Alliance, bringing together related manufacturers as well as government and academic research units to develop innovative products, set up industrial standards and explore markets.

The central theme of the upcoming Africa Sourcing & Fashion Week, which will take place in Addis Ababa from October 3-6, 2017 is sustainability in clothing.

Government Polytechnic, Nagpur recently organised an industry-institute-interaction meet on “Cotton growth and development in Vidarbha region” with the delegates from Ethiopian textile industry.