Knitting & Hosiery
Rapid ordering of spare parts – it’s in your hands!
KARL MAYER is expanding its WEBSHOP SPARE PARTS platform in order to support its clients in their day-to-day operations even more effectively. With a number of new functions, this online ordering platform is now even more useful. This manufacturer is “beating the publicity drum” even harder – to disseminate more information about it. A new film was being premiered at ITMA 2019 in Barcelona, showing the webshop, together with its functions and advantages.
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AATCC Foundation offers new scholarships for textile students
Thanks to two brand new scholarships, AATCC Foundation Inc. will provide more funding than ever to students in textile and related fields. For the 2020-2021 academic year, the AATCC Foundation will award more than 35 scholarships and fellowships, worth nearly $150,000. Students can find and apply for scholarships through one easy online application.
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Realisation of IVL investment package at Trevira site Guben
In May 2018, Trevira GmbH’s parent company Indorama Ventures (IVL) approved a major investment package for Trevira’s Guben site, and this week sees the launch of a key new component – a spinning machine capable of producing raw white POY (partially oriented yarn) for further processing at the texturising stage. A further three new spinning machines are planned. The new machinery will offer efficiency savings in both manufacturing and energy use at the Guben site, which specialises in flat and texturised filament yarns for automotive interiors, technical textiles, apparel and home textiles.
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Yarn & Fiber
A close partnership between the Austrian Fibers Institute and KOFOTI as well as DYETEC from Korea enables to arrange the 1st Dornbirn-GFC congress for the Asian market. Around 300 till 400 participants from the whole textile chain will be expected to join this special event. An agreement on this cooperation has been signed by October 21st, 2019 in Porto/Portugal.
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Techtextil North America and Texprocess Americas will return to the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia May 12-14, 2020. With the all-new, tiered pricing structure, those who register prior to February 18, 2020 will have the opportunity for substantial cost savings on the exhibit hall, symposium, and special event purchases.
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Techtextil India accentuates sustainable solutions while promoting the growth of technical textiles
Techtextil India attracts high-profile visitors from across the dynamic fields of technical textiles industry. The first-ever Hackathon on technical textiles brainstorms over various challenges and opportunities existing in the industry.
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Toray to supply RO and UF membranes to Brazil’s largest SWRO plant
Toray’s ROMEMBRA™ RO and TORAYFIL™ UF membrane technologies (toraywater.com) have been selected for a new seawater desalination facility in Brazil, which is set to become the largest in the country.
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Toray opens R&D Innovation Center for the Future
Toray Industries, Inc., today held an opening ceremony at the R&D Innovation Center for the Future on the premises of the Shiga Plant, where the company started out in 1926. The approximately 70 attendees included academic and local government representatives. The new facility will spearhead Toray’s global research as its functional materials headquarters in pursuing research and developing technologies through collaboration between its domestic and overseas production and sales units so it can expand in growth fields and regions.
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Welcoming Mr. Calleja Crespo, Director General of the European Commission DG Environment at the Board of Directors meeting today, EURATEX is pleased to anticipate preliminary proposals for a new Circular Economy Action Plan for the Textile value chains to ensure sustainable resource use and tackle urgent environment, social and economic challenges.
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On 14th and 15th November 2019, KARL MAYER ROTAL expanded its denim centre of excellence with an in-house show for its customers and celebrated at the same time the 50th anniversary of its birth.
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Tanzania rejoins the ICAC
The International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) has announced that Tanzania rejoined the organisation, becoming its 29th Member and 11th Member in Africa.
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Body mapping re-thought
At KARL MAYER a sportswear collection made from highly innovative warp-knitted textiles was produced punctually for ITMA since, as Gabriela Schellner, Head of the Textile Product Development at the well-known global player, says, “The sportswear sector wants to know what is happening in the machine building sector because this will determine textile developments for the next five to ten years.”
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Freudenberg sells South American hygiene business to Fitesa
Freudenberg, the global technology group, sells its South American Hygiene nonwoven business to Fitesa, the Brazilian nonwoven specialist. Freudenberg sees the sale of the hygiene business as the best opportunity to successfully develop this business. Fitesa is one of the main suppliers of nonwovens to the global hygiene market. Both parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. The transaction is subject to approval by competent antitrust authorities.
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Associations
Top young talent for a technologically strong industry
At the end of November, the chairman of the Walter Reiners-Stiftung (Foundation) of the VDMA Textile Machinery Association, Peter D. Dornier presented awards to six successful young engineers in Dresden. The award ceremony took place as part of the Aachen-Dresden-Denkendorf International Textile Conference.
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KARL MAYER looks back on a successful in-house show parallel to Shanghaitex
From 25 to 28 November 2019, KARL MAYER welcomed around 400 guests from more than 220 textile companies at its location in Changzhou. Most of the visitors came from China, but some also came from Turkey, Taiwan, Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Despite the current difficult economic policy conditions, the mood during the event was good. "Our customers are used to cyclical crises.
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Archroma announces CEO transition
Archroma, a global leader in color and specialty chemicals towards sustainable solutions, today announced its transition plan for the function of Chief Executive Officer. The Board of Directors of Archroma has appointed Heike van de Kerkhof to succeed current CEO Alexander Wessels effective January 6, 2020. Mr. Wessels has held the CEO position at Archroma since the Company was established in October 2013 and will be appointed as Vice Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors. He will also take on a Senior Advisory role within SK Capital working across its portfolio of investments, which includes Archroma.
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Intertextile Apparel returns after back-to-back visitor growth
2019 saw the two editions of Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics reaching new heights with growing visitor numbers – 15% increase for both fairs – and strong feedback on product variety, show quality and innovation. Following the successful 25th anniversary celebrations of the Autumn Edition last September, the next Spring Edition will be held from 11 – 13 March 2020 at the National Exhibition and Convention Centre (NECC) in Shanghai, where worldwide textile suppliers and buyers can once again anticipate new potential and opportunities at the industry’s most prominent sourcing platform.
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Automation – a key theme for Saurer Twisting Solutions at Domotex 2020
Domotex, the world's largest trade fair for floor coverings, will take place in Hanover from 10 to 13 January 2020. Saurer Twisting Solutions is looking forward to welcoming customers and visitors at their Booth B35 in Hall 11.
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Ring spinning… as good as it can be
Even in the best ring spinning mills, there is always room for improvements, among a complex range of options management and operatives need to consider for optimized productivity and profit. USTER® SENTINEL provides a fact-based overview of spinning machine performance, pinpointing real opportunities for excellence in the use of technology, components and manpower.
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