Gujarat-based ABN Industries is a manufacturer of textile weaving machinery spare parts for shuttleless looms. It provides rapier drive wheels for textile weaving machinery. The company participated at the recent GTTES event in Mumbai in which the company displayed its wide range of drive wheels for the textile industry.

The Karnataka Government has earmarked 1,000 acres for the upcoming textiles park at Yadgir in north Karnataka. The Government intends to also develop an integrated park at Yadgir. The Karnataka Government is also planning to develop smaller textile parks at various places such as Vijayapura, Ballari and Chamarajanagar districts.

In spite of slowdown in nonwovens, following general economy, the global per capita consumption is expected to grow from 1 kg to 2011 to 2 kg by 2025. And nonwoven and nonwoven-based products find wide applications in personal & healthcare, infrastructure, air & water purification and mobility.

Farrokh Cooper, Chairman and Managing Director of Cooper Corp, a Satara-based manufacturer of diesel engines turned 70 on January 13, 2015. Taking forward the legacy of the company that his grandfather Dhunjisha B Cooper established in 1922, he talked about Cooper´s ambitions of doubling its Rs 700 crore turnover in less than five years.

For the Italian textile machinery sector, the year´s fourth quarter resulted in a decline in orders, mainly due to a negative performance recorded in foreign sales. These findings have been reported in an economic survey conducted by ACIMIT, the Italian Association representing the industry, indicating a 4 per cent drop over the previous quarter.

KARL MAYER to focus on technology for reinforcing textiles & carbon application at the JEC Europe Composites Show & Conferences in Paris.

With the introduction of the rotating tangle unit RoTac3 at the Domotex 2015 from 17 to 20 January in Hanover, the Oerlikon Segment Manmade Fibers wants to pave the innovative way to the future of BCF technology. Oerlikon Neumag´s (hall 5, stand A31) exhibition highlight enables substantial energy savings and creates many further advantages for the production of BCF carpet yarn with the 3-end plant S.