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Recently, the 5th International Textile Conference at SSM College of Engineering, Komarapalayam, Erode was organised jointly with the Textile Association (India), Erode unit. The theme of the conference was ?Emerging Trends in Textile Industry: New Innovations 2015´. Subhash Bhargava, Technocrat and MD, Colorant Ltd, was the Special Guest of Honour and Dr NN Mahapatra, Vice President, Business Development was the keynote speaker.

Medical community and healthcare markets have much to gain by the growth of technical textiles industry, and India has only seen the tip of this vast potential for the domestic as well as global market, finds the Editor of The ITJ, reporting on an ITTA-organised seminar in Mumbai recently.

Medical community and healthcare markets have much to gain by the growth of technical textiles industry, and India has only seen the tip of this vast potential for the domestic as well as global market, finds the Editor of The ITJ, reporting on an ITTA-organised seminar in Mumbai recently.

A couple of doctors I met recently confessed that even the medical fraternity, except for a few sophisticated and high-tech hospitals, disregard hygiene norms and one doctor uses the same surgical gown used by another, throwing to the winds all the norms for infection control.

The Indian Technical Textile Association (ITTA) has organised a symposium on ‘Medical Textiles: Applications & Opportunities’ on July 14, 2015 at MCA Banquets, Mumbai Cricket Association, Mumbai.

The quality of grease, represented by its unit cost, plays a significant role in deciding the frequency of application, affirm D Shanmuganandam, J Sreenivasan and N Parthasarathy. As we are aware, wrong selection and inadequate quantity of lubricants and inappropriate frequency of application not only affect the working performance of machines.

A two-day certificate course on advances in testing of textiles and apparels was organised by Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, jointly with the Department of Fashion Technology. This course exclusively benefited the students from textile institutions.