Brush India Mfg Pvt Ltd, based in Ahmedabad, has emerged as a leading manufacturer and exporter of industrial brushes. With more than 25 years experience, Brushes India has been manufacturing brushes for all kinds of industries. The company has the capability to design, manufacture and supply a wide range of brush products for the textile, steel, dairy, paper, pharma and various other industries.

THEN will be represented in India by ATE Enterprises Private limited, from 1st July 2009 onwards. ATE is already representing Fong's and Goller, the world renowned suppliers of dyeing and wet processing machinery for batch-wise and continuous processing respectively.

On April 1st 2009 the new Stoll Fashion & Technology showroom was opened in New York. The new showroom is situated in the heart of the Garment District of Manhattan, New York and presents the opportunity to gain hands-on experience to the services of the Stoll Fashion & Technology world.

Rockwell Automation is recognised for the second year as one of the “World's most ethical companies” by the Ethisphere Institute, an international think-tank based in New York dedicated to the advancement of best practices in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, anti-corruption and sustainability.

Over the last 40 years, James H Heal & Co Ltd has been lead by David Repper, with a commitment to continuous investment in the latest design and manufacturing technologies, David’s guidance has enabled this British textile testing equipment manufacturer, to become a world leader in their field.

The first eFK-type texturing machines will be installed in China. A contract for ten machines – which premiered at the ITMA Asia 2008 – was recently signed with Jinxing (Fujian) Chemical Fibre and Textile Industry Co Ltd, a subsidiary of Fujian Jinxing Group.

Heinrich Mauersberger, the inventor of MALIMO stitch-bonding technology, celebrates his 100th birthday. Great inventions often stem from every-day occurrences, a gift for observation and a dogged persistence - and finally there comes that ‘Eureka!’ moment. And this was also the case for Heinrich Mauersberger, the inventor of the MALIMO stitch-bonding technology.

China has the largest garment manufacturing capacity in the world and its operations are highly centralised. More than 70% of all China’s production comes from just six provinces, ie, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Shandong, Guangdong and Fujian.

Jeanologia, whose tagline is “The Science of Finishing”, is a Research and Development center concentrating on Wet & Dry Garment Processing technology for the world’s Jeanswear market.

Two highly-respected “Household” names in the textile equipment market have moved quickly to secure prime booth space at ATME-I MEGATEX, the textile industry's four-yearly showcase of the best textile manufacturing equipment and services, located in Atlanta, GA next May. Both firms have chosen high-visibility booth space, close to the visitor cross-over points with Techtextil North America 2010, which is running alongside in the same hall.

Oerlikon Textile, the world market leader for spinning and texturing machines, embroidery machines and production lines for synthetic yarns as well as with lines for nonwoven fabrics, BCF yarns and man-made staple fibres and one of the five major producer of textile machinery in China, is presenting its innovations especially for the Chinese market at the Shanghaitex in China.

ITEMA Weaving and LAMIFLEX spa, global market leaders in their respective fields of textile solutions & machinery engineering, have entered into a strategic agreement, thus further formalising and strengthening the collaboration between the two entities.

Rieter Group sales for 2008 declined by 20% to 3,142.5 million CHF. The operating result before special charges, interest and taxes totaled 22.4 million CHF. A corporate loss of 396.7 million CHF is mainly attributable to special charges due to restructuring provisions and goodwill impairment as well as the financial result.