FESPA has appointed two new board members – Thomas Struckmeier and Christophe Aussenac. The appointments were approved by the General Assembly of FESPA´s 37 member associations in Bangkok, Thailand.

As a leading supplier for textile machinery and components, Rieter focuses on low energy consumption and high raw material utilisation in the development of spinning machines. Customers thus profit from sustainably-producing machines.

KCT-TIFAC CORE in Textile Technology & Machinery of Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore Jointly with Department of Fashion Technology organised a workshop on ¨Woven and garment CAD

The Russian Government has announced on the website government that Prime Minister Medvedev has spoken to the Russian textile industry during a meeting in Ivanovo on 31 October 2014. Excerpt from Dmitry Medvedev´s remarks during a meeting on the textile industry:

Lectra has appointed Edwin Ingelaere as the director of Lectra Northern Europe. Ingelaere will be placed in Destelbergen, Belgium and will head a team of 35 people spread across nine countries, which include Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands), Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden) and the Baltics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania).

Data from China Customs showed that polyester filament yarn exports during September bucked the declining trend of August, climbing by 13.53 per cent, to 130, 661 tonnes, which was a jump of 23.74 per cent y-o-y too.

Global yarn production increased in Q2/2014 compared to the previous quarter due to higher output in Asia, South and North America and despite a drop in Europe.

KCT-TIFAC CORE in Textile Technology & Machinery of Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore Jointly with Department of Fashion Technology organised a workshop on ¨Woven and garment CAD

The global dyestuff (black colour) market for nylon textile fibres was valued at USD 120.8 million in 2013 and is likely to reach USD 204.3 million growing at a CAGR of 7.8% between 2014 and 2020.