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CMAI?s Apparel Index for the Second Quarter (July-Sept 2015) once again confirms that the industry has maintained its growth tempo with overall index value at 6.68 points. Giant and large brands have continued their growth story much like the previous quarters and stayed ahead of the curve. They have done better with higher sales turnover and lower inventory holding.

Weaving is one of the oldest manufacturing processes known to man, but in the age of technical textiles it is about to undergo exciting new transformations, says Peter D. Dornier, chief executive officer and co-owner of Lindauer DORNIER GmbH.

A pre-ITMA press meet in Switzerland I attended recently ended with a very interesting panel discussion on two issues: Today?s technology status quo and the menace of talent exodus in textile industry. The references pertained to the Swiss textile machinery industry, but I found to my surprise it reflected the sentiments of our own industry.

Visitors to the Roland DG booth at ITMA 2015 are invited to ´go digital´ with a wealth of cutting-edge digital wide format print technologies to explore and a vast array of profitable applications to discover.

Technology is a very mature word. What you do little bit in grams or a small differential of a very big integral is not. It goes through many-many levels, about nine levels. The most important thing is what we call as process product integration which is where you use whatever is available and try to see whether the concept works as a product, not as a material. A product has to solve a problem.

Lectra, the world leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using soft materials´fabrics, leather, technical textiles and composite materials´has announced that a German competitor´s machine was declared as infringing a Lectra´s patent protecting a solution for cutting one-piece-woven (OPW) airbags in Germany.

S Srinivasan, Founder-Chairman of Tex Tech Industries, passed away at the age of 87. Srinivasan was born on Janaury 7, 1928 and he completed his engineering in Mumbai. He started his career in Escorts Ltd-Tractor division as Sales Manager.