- A top priority to City Textiles, which is part of the Star Knitwear Group, is to strengthen the economic performance by reducing costs on energy and water and at the same time to have a positive impact on the environment. For this reason a lot of focus was put on investing in the latest technology available.

- A new market for robot technologies might develop if robotics researchers were attracted to such areas, utilising the potentials of accumulated techniques to achieve valuable application tasks for which even expensive intelligent robots can be worthwhile.

- Despite its fortune on decline, jute is an emerging niche market with plenty of opportunities for growth and the future of jute lies in its scope of work, declare the authors, mooting proposals for the industry's revamp.

- The DMDHEU-based low formaldehyde finishes are viable economically and performance-wise and if a non-formaldehyde crease-resist finish is desired, chitosan-based formulations give good results.

- With the advent of compact yarns and their low hairiness compared to conventional yarns, the issue of measuring hairiness and the proper interpretation of the values has become important again.

- Bamboo fibres have good antimicrobial properties, which make it more suitable for not only socks but also for other clothing like innerwear.

- During the power cut period, running all the ring frames at reduced spindle speeds would result in substantial savings when compared to stopping some frames and running the remaining frames at usual speeds.

- The US Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) is organising trade mission in China and Singapore from March 18 - 26, 2009.

- Generous private gifts and a state match have raised a total of $ 8 million to establish the Advanced Fibre-based Materials Center of Economic Excellence at Clemson University.

- Despite recent sharp declines in fuel prices, America's poor can expect to spend four times as much of their income trying to keep warm this winter than everyone else, according to the federally created Low Income Heating and Energy Assistance Program.

- With the global economic crisis impacting all aspects of the business of nonwovens, INDA, Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, has decided to postpone the inaugural Link with Asia 2009 Conference, which was scheduled for early May in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

- A newly-developed decontamination wipe designed by researchers at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) at Texas Tech University has proven itself the best for cleaning up chemical warfare agents and toxic chemicals.

- The term “Aramid” is short for “Aromatic Polyamide”. Aramid fibres are man-made high-performance fibres. Aromatic Polyamides were first applied commercially as meta-aramid fibres in the early 1960s, and then subsequently developed in the 1960s and 1970s.

- Textile solutions, located in Huda-Panipat, offers a wide range of loom accessories including heddles, heald wires, dropers, warp stores, temples, lappets, hooks, weft inserters etc, for all kinds of weaving machines.

- Electronic-controlled Sectional Warping and Beaming machine from Jiangyin No: 4 Textile Machinery Manufacturing Co Ltd, is suitable for warping all types of yarns including worsted wool yarn, high twisted filaments, and silk yarn. It can be a good substitute for imported sectional warping machines, providing high quality beams for water-jet, air-jet, rapier and projectile weaving machine.

- Mangal Singh Bros established in 1916 is a dynamic company producing high quality Cots and Aprons using state-of-the-art technology and machining from Japan. Having technical collaboration with Kureha Elastomer Co, a leading producer of Cots and Aprons in Japan for over 50 years, it has been supplying to key OEMs.

- Foam Generator from Taskar Engineering has the following features: Trolley mounted version/size based on capacity in ltrs/hr of foam; Can be attached on any coating machine for foam coating/finishing on textile; Are also used in artificial leather lines for foaming PVC & natural rubber; PLC control system for chemical/air mixing in exact proportions; Controlled input of chemical into the mixing unit by pump; Controlled input of air to the mixing unit; Ratios of chemical and air adjusted to produce desired density foam.

- Krsna Soft Flow Dyeing Machine from KRSNA is a unique machine for tensionless dyeing of: knit/terry towel/woven/loosely woven/crape/woolly/georgette/texurised fabric and any type of surface sensitive fabric.

- Jogindra Industries has designed a Horizontal HTHP Package Yarn Dyeing Machine suitable for dyeing of polyester, cotton, viscose, acrylic, silk yarn & other narrow fabrics. It caters to the needs of high productivity industries.

- Thies GmbH & Co KG has introduced to the world market many new instruments of which the following are noteworthy: The new MPS Colourmatic dispensing system, a new 1 kg capacity LabMaster dyeing machine, a new high performance HP Batcher for preparation and winding of dye beams, a new atmospheric NT Jigger, a new Luft-roto plus SII, and for yarn dyeing the new eco-bloc quattro.