IMB 2009- World of Textile Processing trade show in Cologne was a major success defying doubts raised by economic downturn when it came out successfully with new products and innovations, as expected by international business visitors. Even though the size of the display area had shrunk by 20% of its last edition...

Shanghaitex 2009, which is 14th in its series, is celebrating its 25th Anniversary. Shanghaitex has established itself as a unique national brand and is considered as one of the largest fair for textile field. The show, held biennially in odd-numbered years in Shanghai since its establishment in 1984...

CAD/CAM is virtually a "No Limit" solution for textile designing and manufacturing because it has enormous application area. With the introduction of computer aided designing and computer aided manufacturing technology it is possible to make modern designs and unique color combinations...

Fibre consumption worldwide is currently made up of about 58% manmade fibres and about 42% natural fibres. Although the percentage of cotton has slightly and continuously grown in the last years, its share of the total consumption of fibres is about 40% only...

The production of core yarns has continuously grown since about the middle of the sixties. Meanwhile, approx. 10 million ring spindles worldwide produce core yarns. The spinning of core yarn is costly and complicated. Irrespective of these handicaps, the demand for such yarns is continuously growing...

A new interlock-based knitting structure exhibits more strength on width and length compared with normal structure, because of additional drawn yarns between loops, reveals N. Hanhadjaeva. Textile fabrics can be produced directly from webs of fibres by bonding, fusing or interlocking to make nonwoven fabrics and felts...