Textile industry plays a very important role in spinning the economy’s growth wheels by being the second largest employment generator (after agriculture) and accounting for seven per cent of industrial output in value terms, 12 per cent of the country’s export earnings and two per cent of India’s GDP.

Datatex recently announced a new project with Global Hantex, Vietnam. Global Hantex is one of the biggest and most modern knit fabric producers in Vietnam and plans to enhance the footprint further in the region by adopting latest manufacturing and IT technologies.

AUTEFA Solutions spunlace line with the Hydroentanglement Machine V- Jet FUTURA is available for further customer trials using the full portfolio of the company’s Nonwovens machinery.

Screen-O-Tex is a preferred supplier of rotary nickel screens across India with a range of well-proven, precision nickel screens for textile and non-textile rotary printing applications.

The textile collection, Revenio, features fabric made entirely of recycled and ocean-bound plastic materials and an industry-leading 100 per cent post-consumer recycled biodegradable polyester.

Mitsui & Co and PurThread Technologies have renewed their distributorship agreement for Mitsui USA to bring PurThread’s patented permanent antimicrobial fibres and yarns to textiles and soft goods in Japan.

Saitex announces the opening of its first facility outside its Vietnam birthplace. Saitex USA, located in the heart of the American denim industry in Los Angeles, CA features state-of-the-art manufacturing technology with energy and resource-efficient machinery.