Browsing: R&D

Technical textiles is a passion for me, said Anuj Bhagwati, Managing Director of A.T.E. Group once. The Mumbai-based group has been proving that this newly-emerging sector of textile industry is more than a passion to it.

Picanol NV (Ieper, Belgium) will be exhibiting for the fourth time at the bi-annual Techtextil fair in Frankfurt. Picanol will be at the Belgian Lounge, organised by Symatex, the Belgian Textile Machinery Association.

With its companies ANDRITZ Asselin-Thibeau, ANDRITZ Küsters, and ANDRITZ Perfojet, ANDRITZ Nonwoven provides worldwide leading turnkey and individual production solutions for spunlace, wetlaid, needlepunch, technical textiles, bonding and finishing for spunbond applications.

KK Maheshwari, Group Business Director ´ Fibres and Textiles, and Managing Director, Grasim, spoke eloquently addressing the press a few hours before the launch of brand ´LIVA´ stating that the launch of LIVA was ´indeed a defining moment for us as we take another major step forward in the continuing journey of Birla Cellulose towards achieving greater heights of excellence and growing leadership globally.

Converting sector is much needed for growing the technical textiles sector. Sushil Kapoor, President and CEO of Technical Textiles Business at SRF Limited, India emphasised the need for value addition in technical textiles sector while speaking at the recent Technotex International conference organised by FICCI with the support from Government of India in Mumbai.

Joe Walkuski, Founder and CEO of TEXbase, will be talking on weaving compliance and regulatory requirements into textile R&D on April 23 at 11:00 am (EDT). The increasing demands of social compliance and regulatory requirements are forcing the industry to rethink the approach to textile R&D.

Serving the industry for over 30 years, Amba Projex has been a provider of coating, laminating, flocking and many other roll to roll process applications. These include the traditional and technical textile sectors as well as cutting edge composites.