The Textile Association (India), Mumbai Unit announced new office bearers for the year 2017-2019. Vilas Gharat has been named as the new President of TAI, while TK Sengupta if the new Vice President. C Bose is President Emeritus of TAI.

The 6th VDMA Mechanical Engineering Summit was held on September 8, 2017 at Hotel Sheraton Grand, Bengaluru, which was attended by more than 220 people. India is the second-largest sales market in Asia for the German engineering industry.

Following the overall success and growth of NITRA during last one year, Sanjay K Jain, Managing Director of T.T. Limited, would be continuing as Chairman, NITRA, the pioneering textile R&D organisation in India.

For the first time ever in Iran, Switzerland’s textile machinery manufacturers exhibited in their own pavilion at the recent Irantex show, under the umbrella of their representative body the Swiss Textile Machinery Association (Swissmem).

Represented in the Indian textile market since 1947 and established with a company-owned liaison office in India since 1996, Stäubli has been an important supplier to numerous local weaving mills for decades.

Switzerland-based Textest AG has been providing quality control instruments since 1969. Reto Vogt, owner of Textest AG, who was recently in India for the Techtextil India exhibition, spoke at length with ITJ Senior Sub Editor Karthik Muthuveeran, about the Indian market for its products and its future plans.

Germany-based AMANN Group has been one of the global leaders in the field of high-quality sewing and embroidery threads. The company’s think-tank deals with textile innovations: hybrid threads for composites, sensor yarns,etc.