At a recent 5th edition of Entrepreneur India Awards 2015 held in New Delhi, Mustang Socks & Accessories was honoured with the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year in Manufacturing Business-Exports’ received by Lubeina Shahpurwala, Co-Founder &Director.

Dubai World Trade Centre, U.A.E : The International Textile Fair returns to the Dubai World Trade Centre for its second annual outing on 11th and 12th October, 2015. At a time when the global trade and apparel sector is expanding tenfold per annum, the ITF has gained prominence as an elite textile expo with an intercontinental outlook.

Textile spinning mills of the Northern India Textile Mills’ Association (NITMA) are considering cutting back production and shutting down their mills once a week against the current trend of operating a mill 24×7.

B Mothilal, PG Scholar, Apparel Technology, Department of Fashion Technology, Kumaraguru College of Technology presented a paper and received Best Project and Best Paper award for his project on ´Design and Development of Non-Woven Medical Apparel from Wrightia Tinctoria Fiber´ carried out under the guidance of Dr G Ramakrishnan, Senior Associate Professor, Department of Fashion Technology, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore.

The first R 35 rotor spinning machine in India was commissioned at Saranya Spinning Mill Pvt Ltd in Namakkal (Fig 1). This spinning mill already has experience with the former R 923 model and evaluates the innovations of the R 35 as distinctive advantages.

Apparel Training & Design Centre (ATDC), India´s largest quality vocational training provider for the apparel industry, was awarded ´Best Training Institution-National´ by Education Award (Franchise India) at ´Indian Education Awards 2015´ recently at a function held in Taj Vivanta, Surajkund.

Founded in 1835 as a family business, Bräcker AG soon developed into a specialist for key products in the textile industry. Bräcker as technology leader with its own structures in development, production and marketing, supplies: top performance ring/traveller systems for ring spinning machines, inserting tools, cleaning devices, spinning tubes, cots & aprons, and maintenance machines.

Continuing their efforts to promote a more sustainable global textile sector, Huntsman Textile Effects and The Chemours Company FC, LLC, a subsidiary of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company Inc, have introduced ZELAN® R3 renewably sourced, non-fluorinated durable water-repellent finish. Based on a new technology from Chemours, this breakthrough product is the industry´s first and only renewably sourced water repellent treatment available today

SSM has announced their participation to the forthcoming Techtextil in Mumbai, from September 24-26, 2015. Techtextil is India´s leading fair for technical textiles and nonwoven products. The show is the subsidiary of Techtextil Germany and covers 12 application areas, which comprehensively span the full range of modern textile technologies. SSM will show their latest machine for technical yarns.