The global technical textile market is growing along with new innovations and developments. While a large part of the demand comes from developed countries, the increasing industrialisation and development of emerging countries is driving the growth of the overall market. The United States is the largest market for consumption of technical textile products, accounting for a share of 23 per cent followed by western Europe, China and Japan with a share of 22 per cent, 13 per cent and 7 per cent respectively.

The ‘Customer Days’ were held at three places in the first phase – Ahmedabad on April 26, Rajkot on April 27, and Coimbatore on April 30. AT.E. and Savio Macchine Tessili, Italy, recently organised a series of ‘Customer Days’ across India, to announce the tie-up between the two companies. A.T.E. has become the sole selling agent for Savio’s automatic winders and TFOs in India from April 1, 2016.

The 4th International Power Transmission Expo (IPTEXPO) and the 2nd International Grinding and Surface Finishing Expo (GRINDEXPO) was organised by Virgo Communications and Exhibitions (P) Ltd., Bangalore, during March 3-5, 2016 at Bombay Exhibition Center, Goregaon, Mumbai.

Starting the year with trend inspirations from Ambiente and Heimtextil in Frankfurt, the Indian editions of these world-renowned fairs are now gearing up to expose global textile, furnishing and decor trends of 2016 to the domestic market. The third edition of Heimtextil India & Ambiente India will return to Pragati Maidan, New Delhi to showcase new collections and creative applications of textiles, home furnishings, homeware and interior décor from June 22-24, 2016.

Nonwoven substrates made using spunmelt and carding processes are cost effective to develop tissue scaffolds. A team of researchers from the University of Missouri-Columbia and University of North Carolina (UNC)/North Carolina State University (NCSU) have found that nonwoven substrates produced using the above traditional methods provided viable tissue scaffold medium compared to electrospun nanofibre webs.

The textile industry of Iran is ready for a new beginning and determined to achieve future progress in technology and global market penetration, following the recent ending of international sanctions which hampered its continued development. As long-term partners of Iranian textile companies, Switzerland’s textile machinery producers are eager to play a major role in their renewed growth, as was demonstrated at a highly successful two-day seminar held in Tehran.

Classifault Trichord Flex is the new model of Keisokki Evenness tester. It has the following sensors which can run, all the same time: capacitive, optical, contamination for detecting and clearing of contamination and CV% sensor for monitoring CV% and IPM of yarn. All the four sensors can be incorporated onto your winding machine.