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INDA recognised Ralph Moody, PE, Senior Director of R&D, Berry Global, Inc. with its prestigious 2018 Lifetime Technical Achievement Award before 500 nonwoven and engineered fabric professionals recently during at the association’s annual Hygienix Conference.

A Centre of Excellence (CoE) in textiles will open in Hawick, Scotland early next year. It was one of a range of “key projects” to boost the economy awarded funding by the South of Scotland Economic Partnership (Sosep) this summer.

The monthly Index of Industrial Production for textiles increased 7.8 per cent in August this year compared with the same month last year. The cumulative index for textiles from April to August this year has also gone up marginally — 1.1 per cent — from a year earlier.