AATCC recently honoured Nelson E Houser with the AATCC Education Award in recognition of his numerous contributions to the association´s education and training activities.

Dr NN Mahapatra of Colorant Ltd has penned a new book titled ´Textiles and Environment´. The book has been written in accordance to the author´s personal experience while he was working in big corporate companies as general manager of the dye house.

The Rs 7000-cr textile to power conglomerate LNJ Bhilwara Group has announced a consolidation of its flagship textiles company RSWM, with merger of Cheslind Textiles Ltd and expansion of its plant at Kharigram unit.

In their May report, the USDA has released its first complete set of estimates for an upcoming crop year. The projection for world production in 2015-16 is 111.3 million bales, which represents an 8.0 million bale decrease (-6.7 per cent) relative to the 119.3 million bales harvested in 2014-15.

KPR Mill from Coimbatore is planning to add a greenfield manufacturing facility of 36 million garment per annum capacity at an estimated cost of Rs 175 crore.

Swiss-based Santex Group has decided to improve the local sales organisation in India in the segment of technical textiles. As of April, Santex named Jude Britto as Head of Sales (Technical Textiles and Emerging Technologies). He has been with Santex Engineering India PVT Ltd, the wholly-owned subsidiary of the Santex Group in Coimbatore for nearly 11 years.

The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) has become a member of the ICA, which has the following as its members: Supima, Bangladesh Cotton Association, the Brazilian Association of Cotton Producers, Spinners & Weavers

The latest edition of Intertextile Pavilion at the Shenzhen International Trade Fair for Apparel Fabrics and Accessories will be held from 9 – 11 July 2015 at the Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center in halls 6, 7 and 9.

The 17th ShanghaiTex 2015, which will be held at Shanghai New International Expo Center (Pudong, Shanghai, China) from June 15th-18th, 2015, will have seven theme zones accounting for nine exhibition halls, with over 100,000 square meters of exhibition area.