MARKET & ECONOMY​

Wacker Chemie AG is expanding its existing production plants for polymeric binders in Germany. The Munich-based chemical group is currently building another dispersion reactor with an annual capacity of 60,000 metric tons at its Burghausen site.

Five textile industry leaders have joined forces to launch HYDRO_BOT, a new revolutionising technology for moisture management. HYDRO_BOT will solve one of the biggest challenges in sports, work and protective clothing: to transport moisture to match human sweat rates in various climates, conditions and activity levels.

Lenzing has developed a new fibre based on cotton scraps and wood christened Refibra, which is the first cellulose fibre featuring recycled material on a commercial scale

New developments in nonwovens technology will be featured at the Technical Association of Pulp and Paper Industry’s, (popularly known as TAPPI) Innovative Nonwovens Conference (NET Inc) to be held from from April 23-26 in Minneapolis, United States.

KARL MAYER Technische Textilien GmbH Technical Textiles is an expert and highly committed partner to the composites sector, and demonstrated this once again at the JEC World show, held from 14 to 16 March 2017 in Paris.

As a part of its move to establish a textile park, the regional office of Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation?s (MIDC) has acquired 113 hectares of land at Sayane near Malegaon. A proposal for infrastructural development has been sent to the head office for approval.