- Latest technologies have made it possible to produce yarns like slub, multicount, multi-twist and a combination of multicount and multi-twist with the help of various attachments and machines available in a controlled and reproducible manner as per the effect requirement.

- Fundamentals of Designing for Textiles and Other End Uses, written by J W Parchure, and published by the Woodehead Publishing India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi in association with the Textile Association of India, covers the essential aspects of textile designs and fills the need of a text book on textile designing, which would be useful to the students aspiring for career in textile designing.

- Progress in Textiles: Science & Technology, edited by Dr V K Kothari and published by the Delhi-based IAFL Publications, is the third book in a series in Textiles: Science & Technology. The book has contributions from a number of authors with wide experience in academic institutions, research organisations, consulting firms and industry.

- High Speed Spinning of Polyester and its Blends with Viscose, written by S Y Nanal and published by the Woodehead Publishing India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi in association with the Textile Association of India, charts out a path a spinning mill anywhere in the world could take to run their ring frames at super high-speeds.

- Huntsman Textile Effects (Germany) GmbH, together with A Monforts Textilmaschinen GmbH, have developed a new process that allows non-iron and laundry-fresh properties to be achieved on cotton materials within the shortest treatment times.

- The speed of the new ML 45 has nothing to do with magic. Fast, versatile and reasonably priced -- the ML 45 is perfect for the demanding lace market. The market for lace fabrics is becoming more and more varied and fast-moving, and continues to be a lucrative business area.

- Terrot, which is represented in India by Voltas, exhibited at a recently-held exhibition in Tirupur, in which it showed two newly designed and developed knitting machines.

- Lakshmi Machine Works Ltd, manufacturers of the entire spinning range of machines, offers a range of machinery in Combing System.

- Weavetex is a pioneer and leading seller of horizontal package dyeing system in India. With over 300 machines installed worldwide, the success of Weavetex is due to a wide range of technological innovations and to the organisational power of Weavetex to customise dyeing machinery to the most varied demands of the industry.

- Matex Srl, Italy is just not simply a company, but calls itself a team of real professionals dedicated to quality and innovation. Matex's high standards allows to commit to customers a 24-month guarantee period from the plant test data, right up to assurance of spare parts.

- Rieter's E 76 comber can now be combined with the semi-automatic E 17 SERVOtrolley lap transport system. All the advantages of the E 76 fully automated comber with ROBOlap can also be exploited in full in combination with E 17 SERVOtrolley.

- Emphasising the role of eco-friendliness, the authors, discuss the advances in the field of fibre production and modification, use of different enzymes in textile processing and waste management using biotechnology.

- Yarn quality characteristics such as CV%, imperfection, elongation, classimat faults and contamination clearance are predominantly influenced by yarn performed on different models of machines.

- Apparel production involves the conversion of raw materials into completed saleable garments, says the author, who focuses on the different types of production strategies, evaluation and critical comparison of different types of production systems.

- Acid cellulase, when used in biopolishing, offers a number of benefits such as improvement in pill resistance, cooler feel, brighter luminosity of colours and softness, and at the same time the treatment results in certain adverse effects like loss in weight and strength.

- A new interlock-based knitting structure exhibits more strength on width and length compared with normal structure, because of additional drawn yarns between loops.

- Micro denier fibre and its fabric is one method to improve the moisture management property, which comprises wetting, wicking and moisture vapour transmission, and the advantage of this fabric is that no additional finishing is required.

- There is a good correlation between the AFIS and the NATI neps count measurement before and after carding process, and this correlation depends on the form of the textile matter.

- The per capita consumption of textiles for the year 2007 is 22.41 metres as against 21.49 metres in 2006 recording a growth of 4.28%. On an average, a person purchased and used 0.92 metres more of textiles and clothing in the year 2007 than the previous year.

- It is a record of sorts in technical textiles in a country, where the awareness of this newly emerging form of textiles is at a nascent stage! Saertex India, the 3-year old 100% subsidiary of the German giant, set up at the idyllic surroundings of the Mann Village on the Pune outskirts in Maharashtra, has scaled a new peak in the production of glass, carbon and aramid fibres in India.