Browsing: technical textiles

International technology Group ANDRITZ will be presenting its proven nonwovens technologies at INDEXTM17 in Geneva, Switzerland (April 4-7, Hall 2, booth 2114).

In synthetic fibres, Indian market has high potential mid-term for FDY, IDY and staple yarns, which might have been also due to the slowdown in the Chinese economy, said Michael Korobczuk at the Oerlikon Man-Made Fibre Seminar held at Silvassa very recently.

The 2nd edition of ITMACH India is scheduled from 7-10 December 2017 at India’s most modern exhibition venue – The Helipad Exhibition Centre, Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, India.

Technotex-2017, the sixth International Exhibition and Conference on Technical Textiles will take place in Mumbai in April, 2017. The theme of the exhibition will be ‘Advantage India: Emerging Global manufacturing hub for Technical Textiles’.

Klaus Huneke has taken over as the President of the European Apparel and Textile Federation (EURATEX) with effect from January 2017 for a two-year term. Huneke, succeeding Sege Piolat who headed EURATEX during the last two years, pointed out: “Serge Piolat achieved impressive results in strengthening the voice of the European textile and clothing industry.

Beijing SOL Flame-retardant Fiber Limited (SOL) has developed a new flame-resistant (FR) cellulose fibre—SOL FR—after more than 10 years of research.

Smriti Zubin Irani, Minister of Textiles, Government of India, underlined the need to address the issue of lack of manpower in the technical textiles for which industry needed to first define the requisite skills. After defining the skills, the task would be to bridge the gap in which the industry would be supported adequately by the Government of India.