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Feb192025 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Creative designs, premium wool strongly positioned alongside other key international products at Intertextile Apparel

In China’s garment manufacturing industry, imported textiles are often equated with quality output, boosting demand for international fabrics, designs and styles. Within Intertextile Apparel’s high-traffic International Hall from 11 – 13 March 2025, domestic buyers will be on the lookout for premium products at neighbouring zones SalonEurope, Premium Wool Zone, and Verve for Design, ranging from patterns and prints to wool fabrics, cotton shirting and components. Marking the show’s first return since its landmark 30th anniversary edition last autumn, Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics – Spring Edition 2025 will host over 3,000 exhibitors from 25 countries and regions at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai. International suppliers will be spaced across the Inte

Jan272025 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Together for a sustainable circular economy in the plastics industry

Fibers, General, Sustainability & Recycling

Oerlikon Barmag and Evonik – strategic partnership in the growing market for chemically recycled PET Oerlikon Barmag and Evonik have announced their cooperation to promote chemical recycling of Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) waste. Both companies are committed to develop technologies for robust and efficient depolymerisation and purification processes, coupled with an integrated concept for repolymerisation and the associated EPC business models. Oerlikon Barmag and Evonik are both leading suppliers in their respective key markets. The Remscheid- based machine and plant manufacturer Oerlikon Barmag contributes its expertise in polymer processing for the production of chemical fibers and packaging materials to the new partnership. In addition, as a core brand of Oerlikon Manmade Fibers

Nov292024 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

BTM 2025 “BURSA TEXTILE MACHINERY FAIR” PARTICIPANT REGISTRATIONS HAVE STARTED

Associations, Dyeing – Finishing, Fairs, Fibers, General, Industry 4.0, Knitting, Nonwoven, Printing & Digital Printing, Spinning - Yarn, Sustainability & Recycling, Technical Textiles, Testing, Textile, Weaving

The heart of the textile world will beat in Bursa between November 19-22, 2025! Bursa Textile Machinery Fair brings together leading textile machinery manufacturers, distributors and professionals from Turkey and the world. This major event offers unique opportunities for those looking for innovative solutions in the textile industry. Bursa Textile Machinery Fair is organized on a large area of 17,000 m² and brings a new breath to the textile sector with the participation of over 150 companies and more than 250 brands. Leading companies in the sector will come together to exhibit their latest technology textile machines, production solutions and automation systems. The future of textile and ready-to-wear production will take shape at this fair. Wide Participant Profile: Bursa Texti

Nov72023 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

French Textile Equipment: Mireille Jautzy, New Secretary General

Associations, General

Beginning of October, the French Textile Machinery MAnufacturers' Assocation (UCMTF) announced the appointment of Mireille Jautzy as Secretary General. She took over from Christian Guinet who had decided retire. Hugues Schellenberg, the President, would like to underline " it is a great opportunutiy for us to wellcome Mireille. She will bring a new approach regards her experience has been on top positions, taking part to piloting strategies and significant projects. We chose her bringing new ideas and transition with christian Guinet has been smooth and as they had been working together from July this year. Hugues Schellenberg adds it was a significant period while working with Christain Guinet. He had to face the Covid crisis and particular situation over fairs and internati...

Aug42023 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Meeting the need for tomorrow’s textile technicians

Associations, General

West Yorkshire is to have a first-of-its-kind apprenticeship training course for textile engineering technicians, reflecting a resurgence in the industry locally, and more generally in the UK. Calderdale College has partnered with the Textile Centre of Excellence (TCoE) and the British Textile Machinery Association (BTMA) to develop the bespoke Level 3 apprenticeship course which will start in September 2023. Engineering Technician apprentices at Calderdale College will receive training from the TCoE, helping them to develop the engineering maintenance skills required to close the skills gap in West Yorkshire’s textile industry. While the region has been a flourishing hub for textile excellence since the 19th century and is being revitalised through digitalization and the localisa

Aug32023 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Kollmorgen expands its line of certified explosion proof products with new ATEX and IECEx/cETLus status for Goldline high-voltage servo motors

Dyeing – Finishing, General

For hazardous locations that require use of an explosion proof motor, Kollmorgen’s Goldline EB series of ATEX Certified and IECEx/cETLus Listed servo motors now includes the 480 Vac Goldline EBH. RADFORD, VA., 8/1/2023 — Kollmorgen, a global leader in motion control systems, today announced ATEX certification and IECEx/cETLus listing for the explosion proof Goldline EBH 480 Vac servo motor. These new explosion proof approvals for the high-voltage Goldline EBH servo motor exemplify Kollmorgen’s commitment to advancing the state of the art in motion control and meeting the most demanding application requirements. The high-voltage Goldline EBH servo motor joins a broad selection of Kollmorgen explosion proof motors certified and listed according to UL, ATEX, IECEx and/or CSA standards. Ex

May192023 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

ITALIAN TEXTILE MACHINERY: DROP IN ORDERS FOR 2023 FIRST QUARTER

Associations, General

The textile machinery orders index for the first quarter of 2023, as processed by the Economics Office of ACIMIT, the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers, declined markedly compared to January-March 2022 (-35%). In absolute terms, the index stood at 84.8 points (basis: 2015=100). This result is mainly due to a reduction in the orders intake recorded by manufacturers on foreign markets. Indeed, foreign orders dropped by 40%, whereas the domestic market showed a 14% increase. The absolute value of the index settled at 78.3 points abroad, while it measured in at 148.1 points in Italy. During this year’s first quarter, booked orders stood at 4.2 months of guaranteed production. ACIMIT president Alessandro Zucchi stated that, “The order index for the first quarter confi

Jan152021 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

No sustainability without innovation – true to this motto, TINTEX and BRÜCKNER strive for new paths together

Dyeing – Finishing, General, Sustainability & Recycling

The Portuguese textile company TINTEX Textiles S.A. and the German textile machinery manufacturer BRÜCKNER Textile Technologies GmbH & Co. KG make a big step into the future together. A completely new developed process technology for coating bi-elastic knitted fabric opens new markets and new possibilities for both sides. „No sustainability without innovation.“ True to this motto, TINTEX is constantly researching for fabric innovations to develop and produce intelligent, functional and high-performance textiles. To round off the concept, a few years ago it was decided to cooperate with the German textile machinery manufacturer BRÜCKNER. Their product range includes machines and complete lines for coating and finishing of textiles, technical textiles, nonwovens and floor coverings

Dec142020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Christian Straubhaar – New Head of Sales at Rieter Machines & Systems

General, Spinning - Yarn, Textile

In course of the succession planning, Christian Straubhaar will take on the position as Senior Vice President Sales at Rieter Machines & Systems in Winterthur on January 1, 2021. Straubhaar will succeed Reto Thom who will retire. Christian Straubhaar holds an Engineering Master’s Degree in Industrial Management from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) and is a sales executive with 20 years of extensive experience in the textile industry. Recently, Straubhaar was responsible as Group Sales & Marketing Director at Itema for the world-wide sales of machines and spare parts. Prior, he held various positions in Operations and as Business Unit Head in Itema and other global textile companies. His professional career shows a solid track record in identifying new

Jun62018 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Double The Success For KARL MAYER in India

General, Knitting

KARL MAYER participated in the VDMA Symposium and held its own Tricot Circle in May 2018 India is an important market for KARL MAYER. In 2015, this country in Southeast Asia ordered more machines than ever before from this global company, which makes it one of its three most important sales regions. Business is taking off again after rather muted demand over the last two years. “India has a population of about 1.3 billion, who all need clothes,” says KARL MAYER’s Sales Manager, Mark Smith, when highlighting the simple truth about what is driving the Indian economy. This country is growing and KARL MAYER is in an ideal position to support this development. As well as offering high-speed machines, KARL MAYER can also offer its Indian customers expertise in warp knitting and new idea