COTTON USA will show the global home textile industry WHAT’S NEW IN COTTON™, including five new innovative technologies to drive sales growth, at its booth in Hall 8.0 / Stand D 63 at Heimtextil in Frankfurt, Germany, from January 9-12, 2018.

Mouvent, a company that is focused on digital print technology, achieved a major milestone with its first ever global tradeshow demonstration of its ground-breaking textile printing machine, the TX801, at ShanghaiTex expo, held from November 27 to 30, 2017.

Teijin Frontier Co Ltd, the Teijin Group’s fibre-product converting company, announced today that it will establish a R&D facility for fibres including polyester fibres in Thailand.

The Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) Foundation has launched its implementation hub, which helps best practices of chemical and environmental management and accelerates impact along the value chains of the textile and other industries.

Coats, the world’s leading industrial thread manufacturer, has has acquired Patrick Yarn Mill, a manufacturer of high-performance engineered yarns based in North Carolina.

Baldwin Technology Company Inc.—a world leader in providing process automation solutions, consumables and services for the print, packaging, textile and corrugated industries—has acquired QuadTech, Inc, from its parent company, Quad/Graphics.

Customers are particularly demanding if the textile has direct contact with skin. Since 1992, OEKO-TEX® has offered textile testing for harmful substances using independent laboratory tests.