Interview with Gabriele Renner, CEO of pervormance international GmbH, Ulm (Germany).

Frankfurt, 31 May 2017 – The Walter Reiners-Stiftung (Foundation) of the VDMA Textile Machinery honoured five junior engineers at the trade fair Techtextil, which took place at the beginning of May in Frankfurt.

Rieter’s RSB-D 50 Autoleveller Draw Frame has achieved a new dimension in productivity, quality and easy operation. The new single-head draw frame generation from Rieter offers an unprecedented level of productivity with the highest quality standards.

The eight-day training programme—Cotton Classing & Testing—took place in Bremen, Germany from May 9-16 and was delivered by industry experts from ICA Bremen, and the Bremen Fibre Institute (FIBRE). The training concentrated purely on quality issues in raw cotton.

Brückner is recognised in the industry as world market leader in the finishing of extremely sensitive knitted fabric, and a Portuguese firm wants to produce on the new Brückner line fabrics which could not be realised at all up to now.

Functional cooling textiles of core sports and occupational safety brands use a special superabsorber fleece from BASF. Humans are born runners. Evolution once gave us the ability to overcome the distance of many kilometers through the hot savannas of Africa.

The Textile Machinery Division of SWISSMEM represents the interests of its 40 members. In 2015, SWISSMEM celebrated Diamond Jubilee, and over the past 75 years, its Textile Machinery Division has reached many milestones. Some of the members have become unchallenged market leaders in their segments.