Japanese company, Toyobo intends to build a manufacturing facility to double the production capacity of airbag fabric by 2020 at a local plant of German thread maker PHP, in which they will spend some $85.1 million with Thailand textile giant, Indorama Ventures, responding to the growing demand.

Welspun India Ltd, one of the leading home textiles company, is foraying into flooring solutions with the foundation stone laying of its Rs 600 crore facility in Anjar, Gujarat to manufacture carpets, area rugs and carpet tiles.

Every year, 80 billion garments are made globally generating 1.3 billion tonnes of fabric waste, and nearly 75 per cent of global fabric waste is discarded untreated and this waste either end up in landfills or is burnt thereby polluting water and land alike.

Jyotirmaye Textiles, during ITME 2016, finalised its requirement of 1,800 kg yarn conditioning system (YCS) with Elgi Electric and released the order and advance along with Elgi Electric?s selling partner Voltas Limited.

Welspun India Ltd, one of the leading home textiles company, is foraying into flooring solutions with the foundation stone laying of its Rs 600 crore facility in Anjar, Gujarat to manufacture carpets, area rugs and carpet tiles.

The Lenzing Group has been rated No. 1 globally with respect to the procurement of wood, the key raw material in cellulose fibre production, by the Canadian non-profit environmental organisation Canopy Planet Society.

Today, a modern automobile contains between 20 up to 30 kg of fibres from the tyres to the sky. These fibres are used—visibly and invisibly—in many textile products for example as tyre cord, adhesive tape of the seat cover, claddings, sound proofing or insulating material but also for floor coverings. I

According to a KMPG report, FDI equity inflow in the Indian textile and clothing (T&C) sector has surged 16 per cent in FY 2015-16 over FY 2013-14.

Brückner has recognised the trend already long ago and offers for many of the mentioned areas of application innovative machines and lines for a resource-saving production of technical textiles used in modern vehicles.