What has textile technology got to do with aircraft manufacture? In fact, quite a few Swiss textile machinery companies would be able to answer that question, as aerospace is just one of the high-profile ´ and extremely demanding ´ business segments in which their products play a key role.

Thanks to our reputation as a reliable supplier´with important field follow-up and services´our machinery is highly appreciated worldwide and we could maintain a high business level until now. Splitting up the textile business into regions, especially the weaving sector, we can state the following: Activities in China were within the usual cyclical business spells in 2014.

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.

It was the textile technology show with everything. From the USTER viewpoint, the recent ShanghaiTex 2015 was a multi-faceted success: important contracts concluded, new deals initiated, market insights, and more visitors for USTER, up 7 per cent on the previous edition. And, unfortunately, there was also more rain ´ heavy downpours which kept the overall attendance at ShanghaiTex 2015 somewhat below expectations.

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.

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

Datatex has announced 2014 sales and revenues results of its NOW ERP Software solutions for the textile carpet and apparel market. 2014 has been a record year for the NOW product with package sales more than double from the previous year and total revenue increasing by over 25 per cent.

A large number of Indian visitors from textile & garment manufacturing industries are registered to visit ITMA 2015 almost four months in advance, said Om Prakash, Director, In ORBIT Tours Pvt. Ltd.

Minister of State for Textiles Santosh Kumar Gangwar laid the foundation stone for apparel and garment making centre in Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram, and hoped the centre will be the beginning of setting up of an organised industry in the state.