´Despite slower growth overall in the Chinese economy, the domestic housing market is still relatively strong in most cities across China,´ says Ms Wendy Wen, Senior General Manager, Messe Frankfurt.

Naazneen Katrak, founder of Mustang Socks, was honoured with the Golden MSME award for Woman Entrepreneur of the Year. Golden Maharashtra MSME Awards recognize and reward Maharashtra’s entrepreneurs, and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).

The global technical textile chemicals market is expected to reach $4.96 billion by 2020, according to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc. Increasing penetration of technical textiles across various end-use industries such as medical, military and transportation is expected to drive the global technical textile chemicals market.

The textile-finisher SC Ready Garment Technology Romania SRL was founded in 2000 and is a subsidiary of the German holding company Dr Dietrich Bock & Partner. RGT Romania specialises in processing finished parts using washing, dying and special effects.

Innovations, inspiration and sales ´ those are the words that best summarise DOMOTEX 2015. The world´s flagship trade fair for carpets and floor coverings served once again as the No. 1 meeting place for a vibrant sector and its clientele.

Amith Garment Services, a leading exporter, manufacturer & supplier of switch cutter, lab shaker and colour cabinet from Bengaluru, Karnataka, is pleased to introduce as developers of CAD/CAM products for textile design creation, design data management, production planning and integration with SAP/ERP, etc.

New figures suggest foreign-owned businesses are continuing to ramp up their investment in Vietnam’s garment manufacturing sector in anticipation of the potential Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ´ yet one of the country’s leading economists has urged Vietnam’s authorities to consider restricting the number of textile and garment projects due to environmental concerns.

The fashion industry full supply chain will massively benefit from wider and smarter use of information technologies. EURATEX joins the next edition of IT4Fashion to widen the debate on the benefits and industry needs for digital data exchange.

Trevira has considerably intensified its activities in the area of brand control. The control measures involve not only monitoring flame retardancy, the feature safeguarded by trademark testing, they also include chemical tests and analyses.