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Textile 04-10-2022

CITI re-elects top leaders

04 October 2022, Mumbai:

T Rajkumar is chairman of the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI). Rakesh Mehra has been elected as deputy chairman. Ashwin Chandran is the vice chairman.

Rajkumar is the chairman of the Textile Sector Skill Council. He is a director at the National Skill Development Corporation and the former chairman of the Southern India Mills’ Association. He is also the chairman and managing Trustee of Global Pathway School, Coimbatore, and secretary of Nachimuthu Gounder Rukmani Ammal Charitable Trust, Pollachi, Tamil Nadu, apart from being actively involved in various industry bodies and educational institutions. He also serves as an independent director in Coimbatore Smart City.

Additionally, Rajkumar is a member of the Governing Council of Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council and South India Textile Research Association, Coimbatore.

Rakesh Mehra is the chairman of Banswara Syntex. Since 2018, he has been the president of the Indian Spinners Association. He is the former chairman of the Synthetic and Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council. Ashwin Chandran is the chairman and managing director of Precot Meridien. He is also a member of the Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council.

The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry, a leading industry chamber for the textile and clothing sector, represents the entire textile value chain through its leading regional and industry associations and 18 major corporate members.

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Textile 04-10-2022

Lenzing: Hit landmark in photovoltaic & e-mobility expansion

03 October 2022, Mumbai:

Lenzing is currently celebrating the launch of the first development stage of the largest ground-mounted photovoltaic system in Upper Austria. The largest ground-mounted photovoltaic system in Upper Austria becomes operational.

The installation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure at the company’s premises underlines Lenzing’s commitment to the energy transition process.

Together with its energy partner VERBUND, Lenzing is also paving the way for the transition to zero-emission mobility.

Due to our consistent expansion in the field of photovoltaic and the transition to e-mobility, we are playing a pioneering role in Upper Austria and providing an important contribution to the region’s photovoltaic strategy for 2030,” comments Stephan Sielaff, CEO of the Lenzing Group.

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Textile 03-10-2022

Trident offers new bed and bath products

26 September 2022, Mumbai:

Trident is launching several new categories of products in bed and bath.

One is Grace, which marks the company’s entry into the prewashed sheets category. Earth Lover is a special range of sustainably made towels, and Trident Specials is an assortment of towels offering both utility and eye-catching designs.

Trident has also made additions to its Jiva health and wellness collection, which consists of microbe-resistant products with lifetime odor-free attributes. In addition, the company has temperature-regulating sheets and a bath assortment featuring its patented Air Rich technology, which helps create towels that stay soft wash after wash.

The three keys for Trident’s product introductions are utility, comfort, and sustainability. From using fibers made from recycled materials to make products with the finest cotton-like Supima and Egyptian, Trident has been constantly raising the bar year after year. Trident is a vertically integrated textile (yarn, bath, and bed linen) and paper (wheat straw-based) manufacturer and is one of the largest players in the home textile space in India.

It currently has around 400 points of sales across the country and plans to further expand its retail presence by doubling its point-of-sales next year. Trident believes in offering innovative solutions and delivering high-quality value-added products to customers.

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Textile 26-09-2022

NISTI: Webinar series on "Technological Breakthrough in the Evolution of Textile Industry"

19 September 2022, Mumbai:

The first in the series is on 23rd Sept 2022 while the second is on 30th Sept 2022.

Introduction and benefits of Industrial Revolution 5.0

Date: 23 / 0 9 / 2 0 2 2

TIME 4.00 PM IST.

INTRIGUING SESSION ON DRIVERS OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIELD OF TEXTILE PROCESSING WITH PROF (DR.) M D TELI, FORMER DEAN - TEXTILE DEPT. (ICT MUMBAI)

The spotlight is on the 'Introduction and benefits of Industrial Revolution 5.0' with VILAS GHARAT, MD -Gharat & Associates Board MemBer of Trustees - Textile Association of India Mumbai.

Date: 3 0 / 0 9 / 2 0 2 2

TIME 4.00 PM IST

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Textile 19-09-2022

Poor demand hits Surat textile hub

28 September 2022, Mumbai:

Textile units in Surat are struggling to revive from the current crisis of sluggish demand despite the onset of the festive season.

Surat is India’s biggest manmade fabric hub. Though textile units witnessed some spurt in demand ahead of Navratri festivities, this has not been enough to clear existing stock. Apart from subdued demand, units functioning at every stage of the textile value chain in Surat are facing challenges of increased input costs.

Hardly a quarter of enquiries are being translated into actual buying. In most cases, sellers and buyers do not agree on prices and hence business does not happen. Production cost has gone up drastically, making it difficult for Surat-based units to supply fabrics at lower prices.

Buyers want newly designed fabric and hence most textile units are struggling to clear inventories. Margins of weavers have also reduced due to increased input costs. Over the past couple of months, there has been a marginal increase in demand but not enough to run weaving units at full capacity.

The Rs 80,000 crore Surat textile industry produces over 40 million meters of fabric a day. The cluster houses more than seven lakh power looms and over 400 processing units.

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Textile 28-09-2022

Futuristic Technology topics for Knowledge & Power for Textile Industry

22 September 2022, Mumbai:

It is the best opportunity to discover new knowledge and discuss with experts doing groundbreaking work in the textile & textile engineering industry vertical.

India ITME 2022 strives to assimilate & disseminate more knowledge & power through the futuristic Technology topics at the Conference Sessions.

Circular Economy in the Indian Context will be presented by Mr. Thomas Gries, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, Mr. Uday Gill, Group Chief Strategy Officer, Indorama Ventures Limited, Indonesia,

Mr. Prashant Agarwal, Co-Founder, and JMD, WAZIR Advisors,

Mr. Justin Kühn, Aachen University, Germany,

Mr. Gurudas Aras, India consultant to the ITA group

Innovate: Smart Manufacturing Conference by WTiN, UK

Technical Symposium on 'Reduce-Reuse-Recycle: State of the Art' in Textile Sector by VJTI.

Composites for the Energy Sector in India by Mr. PKC Bose, Global Sustainability Advocate, Dr.-Ing.

Mohit Raina, Managing Director, Raina Industries Pvt. Ltd, Mr. Kumar Jois, Scientist, RWTH Aachen University (ITA), Germany, Prof Asim Tewari, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Dr. Rajalakshmi

Natarajan, Former Senior Scientist, and Head, Centre for Fuel Cell Technology, ARCI, IIT Madras, Ms. Gözdem Dittel, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Customised Joining Technologies for Technical Textiles by Mr. Philip Huber, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, Dr.-Ing. Yves Simon Gloy, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, Mr. Antonio Braz dos Santos Costa, General Manager at CITEVE – Portuguese Technological Centre for Textile and Clothing Industries, Portugal.

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Textile 22-09-2022

NITRA: Raj K. Jain Takes Over as New Chairman

15 September 2022, Mumbai:

Raj Kumar Jain, MD, Zonac Knitting Machines (P) Ltd/Bonjour socks. is elected as the new Chairman of NITRA, the pioneering textile R&D organization in the country.

The members of the Council of Administration NITRA had met in the 46 h AGM held on 10 th Sept.’22 at NITRA, Ghaziabad. and elected its new leadership team for the year 2022-23.

Dinesh Nolkha, the outgoing chairman handed over the baton to the new team. While taking over the charge, the newly appointed chairman profusely thanked the outgoing chairman for his invaluable guidance that had helped NITRA grow during his tenure. He also assured to deliver of quality service from NITRA to the Indian T&C/T&A industry and its allied sectors.

Vidit Jain, Joint. MD, Pasupati Spinning & Weaving Mills Ltd. is elevated as Dy. Chairman. Sandeep Hora, Partner & CEO, Aeronav Industrial Safety Appliances has been inducted as the new Vice Chairman.

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Textile 16-09-2022

TEXWORLD NYC & Apparel Sourcing

28 September 2022, Mumbai:

Texworld NYC, Apparel Sourcing NYC, and LA Textile are once again joining forces to bring world-class global textile, apparel, and accessory manufacturers together - all on the West Coast.

The event begins this Wednesday at the California Market Center.

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Textile 28-09-2022

International Conference on 'Digitalization'

21 September 2022, Mumbai:

International Conference on “Digitalization – A Step Towards Textile 4.0” Friday,14th October 2022, Hotel The Lalit Mumbai, Mumbai.

About Conference

In TAI's last International Conference on Textile 4.0, it introduced to the Indian Textile fraternity, the importance of digitization, robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, etc. which would create the manufacturing processes into 'Smart Factory'.

This Conference aims to educate how Digitization, Digitalization, and Digital Transformation are shaping up and transforming the global textile business.

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Textile 21-09-2022

ITME Society Awards 2022: To be presented on 8 Dec

14 September 2022, Mumbai:

Apply now for the Most prestigious Award in Textile Engineering Sector –
The last date for submission of nomination is 15th September 2022.

This 2nd edition of awards looks to recognize and felicitate awards in many new categories. The winners will be felicitated with a cash award, trophy & certificate in the format best suitable to the category.

To ensure fair practice and true unbiased nature towards the awards selection, the society has brought on board reputed textile technocrats from different sectors of the textile industry.

Society strongly believes that education is the foundation platform that has lifted this textile sector to such a glorious stage. So, it has also introduced an award category specifically targeting youth, research & innovations.

India ITME Society Awards 2022 is scheduled to be presented on 8th December 2022 at India Exposition Mart, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh.

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Textile 15-09-2022

Raymond expecting a decent demand rise

27 September 2022, Mumbai:

Raymond is seeing an uptick in demand by at least 30 per cent for its lifestyle business.

Covid had a huge effect since stores were shut and customers could not visit. But as soon as the stores were opened, they returned, and that was significantly prominent in Raymond’s apparel business. The fall in rupee is helping in exports that are dollar-denominated but the group is also present in European and the UK markets. In those geographies, too, currencies are falling and therefore that offsets the gains. Raymond will try to focus more on dollar-denominated customers to mitigate the currency impact.

Raymond is seeing strong traction in the real estate segment too. The management is in the process of subsidiarizing this business and will be undertaking projects on the JV/JDA route and not buying additional land.

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Textile 27-09-2022

ITMF Awards 2022

20 September 2022, Mumbai:

At the ITMF Annual Conference 2022 which was held in Davos, Switzerland, and was co-hosted by Swiss Textiles and Swiss Textile Machinery, ITMF presented for the first time the so-called ITMF Awards.

In 2022 the ITMF Sustainability & Innovation Award was presented to varied companies and organizations from different regions around the world.

The objective of the ITMF International Cooperation Award is to recognize progress in the area of international collaboration in the textile industry according to the values of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The objective of the ITMF Sustainability & Innovation Award is to recognize sustainable and innovative achievements in the textile industry.

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Textile 20-09-2022