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A RADICAL LEAP IN FABRIC INSPECTION: Uster Q-Bar 2 becomes the unique formation monitoring system

The best way to avoid off-quality is simply not to make it. Uster Q-Bar 2 introduces a radical leap in fabric inspection. It monitors the fabric additionally at the earliest point – the critical stage in fabric formation – with automatic, in-line inspection. Identifying problems here brings enormous benefits, preventing defects and enabling weavers to deliver constant quality and stay competitive in the market.

PRATIBHA SYNTEX: Playing a leadership role in sustainable textiles and products

Pratibha Syntex , a sustainability-oriented manufacturer of knitted textile products, is a global brand known for its professionalism, its enduring motto of ‘fashion should not cost the earth’ and for its strong community welfare spirit. Shreyaskar Chaudhary, Managing Director and CEO, elaborates about the company’s philosophies, strategies and vision.

TRUETZSCHLER's TC 12 card in India

Truetzschler India launches the new high speed, high quality, less maintenance card: TC 12

PRASHANT GROUP goes green for warp innovation

The vast and incredibly proficient Prashant Group works relentlessly to achieve its goals, keeping the quality parameters at the forefront

U.S. cotton SUSTAINABILITY STORY STARTS AT THE SOIL

For U.S. cotton growers, their land is their livelihood. Growers work tirelessly to preserve their soil, not only for the survival of their crop but to safeguard the land for their children and generations to come.

TURNING A CRISIS ON ITS HEAD

The article highlights how Swedish company Polygiene transformed the pandemic-driven challenges into unique opportunities while also elaborating about its vision for the future

SHRIRAM RAYONS Racing ahead with rayon-reinforced high-performance tyres

Ganesh Kalidas has an exclusive interaction with the head honchos of DCM Shriram Industries Limited – Senior Managing Director and CEO Alok B Shriram and his daughter President (Rayon Division) Kanika Shriram – to get insights about the company’s global presence in high tenacity rayon tyre cord. The interview also focuses on how the company faced the impact of the pandemic and lockdown and immediately got into the groove once again in record time to be able to achieve the goals of Vision 2025

AUTOMATION WILL POWER THE INDIAN TEXTILE GROWTH STORY

With the government giving a huge thrust to the Indian textile sector and taking aggressive steps to increase localised manufacturing and exports, the textile sector will be required to accelerate automation adoption to meet the demand for volume and high-quality products, asserts B K Bhayana, Product Manager (Drives, Industrial Automation Solutions), Delta Electronics India. In this insightful interview, he shares details about how some specific and niche segments will add to automation growth in the textile industry and discusses the pain points and challenges in the sector.

SHAHI EXPORTS and A.T.E. A heart-winning partnership

The new woven plant of Shahi Exports at Shimoga happens to be the most automated textile plant with perfect layout to minimise material movement. It contains automated yarn and greige fabric storage, fully automated finished fabric storage system connected with online packing, auto draw-in for weaving, and automatic dispensing of chemicals and dyes for both dyeing and printing, and all this has been made possible by A.T.E.

LENZING GROUP Weathers the crisis year 2020 and remains strategically well on track

In 2020, the Lenzing Group successfully responded to the extremely difficult market environment due to the COVID-19 crisis by implementing a broad package of measures and remains fully on track in terms of its strategy.

A.T.E. takes textile processing to another level

In an interview with Textile Magazine, S Rajendran, Senior Vice President (Processing Division) of A.T.E. talks about the performance of the processing division in the financial year 2020-2021 and the company’s future strategies for growth

Elmeasure India: Showing The Way Ahead With ‘Smart Energy'

Textile Magazine caught up with Sam Cherian, Chairman, Elmeasure, who after successfully obtaining a degree in Business Management from the US and completing a short stint of managing a recycling company, helped establish Elmeasure in 2004. He spoke at length about Elmeasure’s inception, products and solutions for the textile industry, USPs and future plans, among others

Sustainability The Prime Focus For The U.S. Cotton Industry

Since Covid-19, it has been observed globally that sustainability has been one of the topics that has gained attention among the brands, retailers and consumers. On one hand, there has been a shift in consumers’ choices for more sustainable products, and on the other hand brands and retailers are choosing sustainable practices throughout their supply chains.

MOTHI SPINNER Riding the viscose wave

With world-class infrastructure and a dedicated team, Mothi Spinner has become a name to recon in the Indian textile industry. From its humble beginnings in 2001, Mothi is today a brand recognised for its consistent quality, product innovation and service to its customers. Mothi is an inspiring success story of a few young entrepreneurs from the hinterlands of India, who dreamt of setting up a small spinning unit, and the rest as they say is history.

LGL and Piotex Join Hands for Weft Feeders' Business in India

LGL Electronics Italy, renowned for its electronic weft feeders globally, has joined hands with Piotex Ventures (P) Limited, Pune for setting up a full-fledged service centre for its weft feeders at Kolhapur in Maharashtra. “Piotex Ventures is happy to announce an association with LGL Electronics Italy and believes that the textile industry will benefit from this partnership. LGL Electronics is widely known for meeting the most demanding expectations, offering top-performing products with high technological content and possibly anticipating solutions for future needs,” the management stated.

Carrington Textiles secures joint venture in Asia and announces growth in Europe

This new venture with Sapphire Textile Mills will increase the company’s capacity to 130 million square metres a year and it’s the start of a series of investments that Carrington Textiles’ parent company, the RTS Group, are implementing across the rest of its production facilities in Europe.

Truetzschler – Fortifying pole position in Indian textile industry

Thomson Joseph, CEO, Truetzschler India reveals in an exclusive interview with Ganesh Kalidas what makes the company a pioneer in many ways – be it that the company started blow room machines’ manufacturing to mark a major milestone in the entry of Indian textile industry or the fact that they are usually the ones at the forefront to bring the knowhow of technologically-advanced machines to India, thus setting a highly competitive trend in motion. The journey of Truetzschler India from its inception till date and its competent handling of the pandemic makes up this report

Lectra signs MoU to acquire Gerber Technology

By uniting, the two companies would become the ultimate Industry 4.0 for their customers

Textile industry and ERP. History and new opportunities

Interview with MAURIZIO DESIO – Datatex Managing Director

Warp knitted terry fabric with digital prints for even more bathing fun

STREETART ON THE BEACH

A NEW ERA OF MANUFACTURING B&R heralds the beginning of multidimensional manufacturing with ACOPOS 6D

With ACOPOS 6D, B&R heralds a new era of manufacturing. Magnetic levitating shuttles move individual products freely through the machine. Gone are the days when conventional transport systems imposed rigidly defined timing on the production process. ACOPOS 6D is ideal for small batch production with frequent changeover between products of different designs and dimensions.

Combating The COVID Crisis

Even though the corona virus-triggered pandemic led to various challenges, USTER India took this as an opportunity to become a little bit more reflective, selective, and adaptive to plans to bring real value to customers, says V R Rathnam, President, USTER India in this article penned exclusively for Textile Magazine

Sunita Impex: Exploring foreign markets to drive growth in India

As of now, the company’s expertise is helping open new doors for Indian manufacturers in the African market

TEXTILE EXPORTS can grow at a faster pace – Harminder Sahni

There is huge scope for the Indian textile and apparel industry to grow and at a faster pace too but for the stakeholders who must work aggressively. Harminder Sahni, Founder and Managing Director, Wazir Advisors believes that the Indian textile and apparel companies need to achieve manufacturing excellence and, equally importantly, grab the right opportunities. In an exclusive interaction with Ganesh Kalidas, he airs a few pertinent points and offers solutions which have the potential to catapult the Indian textile industry on to the world map

EPSON launches surecolor SC-F3030, its first ever industry level DTG printer

Epson, a world leader in digital imaging and printing solutions today announced the launch of its first ever industrial level Direct-to-Garment printer, Epson SureColor SC-F3030. It is a robust direct-to-garment (DTG) printer that is designed for high productivity. This printer is targeted towards garment screen printers, e-commerce customers, drop-shipment jobbers and new start-ups engaged in personalized T-shirt printing business. It offers a low total cost of ownership (TCO) for Mid/Large garment and T-shirt manufacturers.

SVP Global ventures achieves Rs. 5,000 crore order book

The company currently has sales tie-ups and yarn off-take arrangements for the next 2-3 years of production

Stay-at-home accelerates recovery for home textile exporters

Lower capital expenditure and working capital intensity to limit moderation in credit profiles

WALMART to source US$ 10 billion of India-made goods each year

Endorsing India’s continuing rise as a global hub of manufacturing, Walmart announced that it will triple its exports of goods from India by the year 2027

WELSPUN COMPANY OF THE YEAR 2020

2020 has undoubtedly been the most challenging year for mankind. The economic headwinds caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic outbreak and the geopolitical uncertainties has forced enterprises to re-strategize their business. Given this challenging context, some companies have stayed the course, continued their expansion plans, quickly developed products to save people and more importantly instil a sense of confidence to the larger community that we will emerge from the crisis stronger than ever before. The Textile Magazine is pleased to honour Welspun for being one such great company.

Journey of JINDAL in Becoming the Best in the Textile Market

Jindal Worldwide Limited is one of the largest denim exporters and manufacturers that started functioning in India in the 1980s. Presently, the workspace of this esteemed organization is spread in several countries all over the world. The Jindal Group specializes in the manufacturing of premium quality denim, printed shirting, Dyed Yarn, and Bottom weights.