A B Carter with a subsidiary in India (Bangalore) gears up. (from l to r): Richard K Craig, President & CEO; Sandeep Shetty, Director; B R Nand Kishore, DGM (Mktg).

FADIS, one of the best winding partners from Italy, is in the process of getting a strong foothold in the Indian market. It has already established a full-grown presence with a major office in Mumbai.

Mr Kishore Khaitan, MD of Basant Wire Industries Pvt Ltd, rapt in attention to a knot of visitors to his Stall. Basant Wire, Jaipur has a tie-up with Stewarts of America for pinned rollers & lags.

Fleissner is a company belonging to the Trutzschler Group today. With over 150 years of expertise, it serves the man-made fibre and nonwoven industries with its technologies, which are incomparable in their performance.

Ms Sonja Wiechmann, Marketing Director of Betex Maschinen listening attentively to a visitor at the center of the Stand in Hall A2. Betex spare parts for Raschel, Tricot and other knitting machines are exported all over the world.

Mr N Subramaniam (center), MD of the Indian outfit of the Habasit Group, which is a globally oriented, independent group and one of the market leaders in power transmission and conveyor belts..

Mr Riccardo Querci, President of Cormatex Srl, Italy brims with satisfaction. His company, with its expertise in woollen spinning, nonwovens, etc has grown from strength to strength.

INA Fag, belongs to the Schaeffler Group of Germany, Its Indian unit, INA Bearings India Pvt Ltd is located at Talegaon in Pune district of Maharashtra.

Itema Group's Savio revolutionised twisting technology with its new Twist & Twist, an innovation with nuances closer to which no other technology has so far come.

Lossatex experience in the textile air engineering started more than 20 years ago, and the Italian company has been spreading its wings far and wide.

Itema Group's weaving section with its machinery & allied products from Somet, Vamatex, Sulzer, Fim Textile and FIRST, was one of the most crowded on all the 8 days of ITMA.

Japan's Muratec launched "Murata Vortex Spinner", an air-jet spinning machine, and "No.21C Process Coner", a high quality automatic winder in 2003. They are still a force to reckon with.

Lectra, the software & CAD/CAM giant was conspicuous by its rare presentations on-stage. The company, which has a major presence in India, is awaiting big entry..

NSC Group, France and Rieter Textile Systems, Switzerland signed a nonwovens business pact two years ago. This collaboration offers unique benefits to the nonwovens industry.

Lakshmi Machine Tools, Coimbatore had many innovations up its sleeves for this ITMA. With a strong order book position, LMW is already making waves in compact spinning with its RoCos fittings.

Dr. Carsten Voigtländer, Head of Oerlikon Textile addressing a press conference during ITMA. To his right is Uwe Krüger, Chief Executive Officer, and left Mr Andre Wissenberg

Oerlikon Group, with its companies - Schlafhorst, Saurer, Neumag and Barmag - occupied nearly half of an entire Hall. The hi-tech group offers all its cutting-edge technologies.

Premier Evolvics, a leading player in the Textile Information System, apart from its display, also presented an expert paper on ERP Systems.

Pai Lung, Taiwan presented 11 different kinds of machines and also conducted fashion live shows in Hall A1. The models wore costumes made from Pai Lung knitting machines.

Rieter's highlights in Hall were: New ring spinning machine G 35, the new compact spinning machine K 45, the new SB 20 double head and the single head SB-D 11 draw frames, the new comber generation E 66 / E 76 together with the new OMEGAlap.

Peass Industrial Engineers Ltd hardly misses international fairs. In Hall A4, Mr Bhargav A Patel (right), its Executive Director, with a friend and visitor while Mr Mangesh Chaudhari, Marketing Manager (left) looks on.

Mr B A Nath (left), CMD of Ringmann, Coimbatore, with his Sterling rings has cast his net far & wide in marketing and captured many a new market.

Perfect Equipments, Ahmedabad is a company created by technocrats three decades ago. Excellence through technology & solutions - its motto.

Santoni was born in 1919 as the first Italian socks machine manufacturer. In 1988 Santoni came under LONATI group, and it claims to meet 97% of the worldwide demand for seamless machines.

With a reputation for continuous innovation, Shima Seiki has become the most popular choice in flat knitting technology. Its stand in Hall A2 was virtually mobbed all the time.

French textile machinery manufacturer, SUPERBA is a leader in the world-wide market of the yarn continuous heat treatment. It launched TVP3, the third generation heat-setting solution.

With automation gaining grounds in textile industry, Siemens with its drive solutions has been slowly and steadily increasing its presence in the global textile industry over the years.

Mr Richard Furter, Executive Vice-President, Textile Technology of Uster, surrounded by Uster's renowned systems for total quality management in the textile supply chain.

In 1960, Smit Textile, Italy built the world's first gripper weaving machine: the TD shuttleless loom. From this, it has developed numerous models including GS900 & G6300.

Seeing is believing: VeriVide of the UK with its innovations in colour and visual assessment.

Staubli always weaves magic with its passion for quality in shedding systems, jacquard machines, weaving preparation and carpet weaving.

Mr Eric Gianina, Executive Director of Yxendis, the French CAD-CAM specialist, says he is in the final stage of identifying a partner for the promising Indian market.

Mr Thomas Greiner (right), Sales Director and Mr Thomas K Xavier, Asst Sales Manager of Aesa Air Engineering. Aesa Air Engineering of France is moving to East, having already sold 70% of its stake to Batliboi.

Technology Components and Conversions (TCC) is your professional partner for textile innovations for reliable and long running parts in short/long staple spinning mill. It comprises Graf, Novibra, Suessen, Gretner & Bracker

Mr D V Patkar, Technical Director of Amoto Engineers Pvt Ltd, which is an ISO- certified Mumbai-based Indian company manufacturing & marketing world class Humidex Humidifiers/Atomizers.

The principal aim of the Brückner Group is to target and open new expanding markets with innovative products of a high technological level.

Batliboi has been raising its stake in the textile industry through its humidification systems, waste collection systems, central monitoring and data logging system. And for Batliboi in textiles, there is much more than what you see here.

CeramTec's focus is on the manifold advantages of technical ceramics used in textile machine engineering and in textile manufacturing. It presented components such as friction discs, thread guides, cutters, extractor nozzles or eyelets, among others.

A hard day's work comes to an end: Mr Leslie John Mclaren (left) of Benninger India Ltd and Mr Peter Obrist, Sales Manager of Benninger AG, Switzerland, in Hall B6.

China Texmatech Co Ltd, better known as CTMTC, established in 1984, is the largest enterprise in China specialized in the import and export of textile machinery. It has an Indian office & service centre in Coimbatore.

Top brass at Dhall Group, Ahmedabad, which today is the leading manufacturer of textile processing & finishing machinery in India. Established in 1959, Dhall offers a comprehensive range of finishing machinery.

Strategic link-up & new futuristic thinking: Groz-Beckert joined hands with Grob Horgen AG to add values to offers.

Dilo Group, with its huge Stand, has a cutting edge in nonwoven technologies, the demand for which has been growing by leaps and bounds.

Mr Vijay Rajguru, Area Sales Manager of Grosse India, Pune at the forefront in Hall B5. For more than 125 years the Grosse name has been synonymous with innovative developments in the manufacture of all types of jacquard machines

Fabrics in Mind: Lindauer DORNIER GmbH presented itself with 9 different weaving machines, featuring important advances for the weaving machinery market in the areas of energy and resource savings.

Kaeser Kompressoren GmbH, Germany has a fully-owned subsidiary, Kaeser Compressors (India) Pvt Ltd in Pune in Maharashtra.

Erhardt + Leimer GmbH, Germany has also an Indian joint venture with ATE Marketing Pvt Ltd. E + L (India) Pvt Ltd, Ahmedabad, since 1979, has been offering solution to web handling problem by way of providing accessories for various web processing machines.

Lacom lip/slot die coating system, the gravure roller process as well as the multi-roller technology are the outcome of future-orientated ideas, says Mr Jurgen Kiener, a Member of Board of Directors at Lacom Vetriebs GmbH, Germany.

Mr R Jagadeesan (right), Vice-President, Corporate Admin and Mr K Gandhi Raj, GM of Lakshmi Card Clothing Coimbatore. LCC unveiled Qubex, a revolution that will redefine the way cotton is processed.

Mr Manjit Singh Saini (facing camera from right at the back), CEO & Executive Director of Paramount Group had a hectic time, with his company displaying a host of testing instruments for the global textile market.

Luwa , Switzerland designs, engineers, builds, installs and services engineered air systems and related processes. In 1993 foundation of Luwa India Pvt Ltd, as a joint venture between Luwa and Eastern Engg was laid in Bangalore.

Picanol of Belgium, truly a giant among loom manufacturers, has always been a major attraction at ITMAs. ITMA 2007 was no exception. Today, about 2,600 weaving mills around the world use Picanol machinery, totalling some 110,000 weaving machines.

Meera Industries, Surat has a range of twisters & cops winders. Says Mr Dharmesh Desai, Director: "We have been exporting to USA, South Africa, Indonesia, etc apart from catering to domestic market".

German company, Reseda Binder's wax rolls are known worldwide. "In ITMA, Reseda has come out with a revolutionary wax roll concept, which is relevant to the Indian market too", says Mr Rishabh Agarwal, Director of Riyotex Pvt Ltd, Reseda's agent in India.

Mr Jitu Doshi, Vice-President of Menzel Engineering India Pvt Ltd, Vasai, Thane Dist, says the parent German company is engaged in technologies for nonwoven, technical textiles, plastic film, glass, custom built machinery and web guiding elements.

Sahm Winders + Systems, Member of the Starlinger Group, Austria launched new winders for carbon fibres. Starlinger Export is its India liaison office located in New Delhi.

Mr Klaus A Heinrichs

A Monforts, a German giant in dyeing and finishing of woven & knitted fabrics, is a leader in innovation. "With already a strong foothold in the Indian market, we look forward to consolidating our position" says Mr Klaus A Heinrichs, Vice-President (Marketing).

Savio Texcone (P) Ltd, Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, is renowned manufacturers and exporters of paper cone from India. "We manufacture paper cone in plain and printed varieties, says Mr Pawan Kumar Sharma, Its Marketing Manager."

S-Line, Switzerland is marching ahead in coating & laminating systems, and Mr Bernd Can, Sales & Marketing Manager of the Swiss major is upbeat about the Indian market, where new markets for nonwovens are about to boom.

Sheltronics' display was a part of Vetri Engineers, Coimbatore, and Mr C M Chandrasekharan, its CEO, was at the stall to give details of latest in production monitoring counters & industrial automation.

SML Maschinengesellschaft mbH with its head office in Lenzing, Austria is specialised in building high-performance extrusion equipment based on 40 years of experience.

Strahm Hi-Tex Systems AG< switzerland is the worldwide leading supplier of machines and production lines for the nonwovens industry and the textile finishing industry.

The family business of Thies, founded in 1892 by Bernhard Thies, is today a leader in dyeing and it offers its Research Dyehouse facility to customers and interested textile companies.

Mr S Malligarjunan (second from right), Managing Director of Tex-Tech Industries (India) Pvt Ltd, Coimbatore, lives & swears by combers. Tex-Tech's fame in upgradation of combers is already the watchword in industry.

S Jayaprakash, CEO of Vetri Engineers, Coimbatore in a chat with visitors. Vetri is a leading supplier of spare parts & accessories for the textile industry.

Twistechnolgy SL, a Spanish company in Hall 6 was making waves with its twisting technologies for the modern spinners.

Mr Alan Little, Director of British Textile Machinery Association (BTMA) with his team at the association enclosure in ITMA. Nearly 50 exhibitors from the Great Britain showed their state-of-the-art for the global textile industry.

Vandewiele Group of Belgium is a giant in carpet and velvet weaving machines. Under its umbrella are Bonas (electronic jacquards), ROJ (feeders and accumulators), IRO (advanced knitting technology), Titan (finishing machinery) and Griffith (special purpose machinery).

Dr Lukas Sigrist, Secretary General of Swiss Textile Machinery, Swissmem is happy that nearly 80 exhibitors have been euphoric over the response from the visitors at the ITMA 2007. He sees further boom in the Asian market for textiles.

Vetal, Coimbatore in Hall A6 introduced its new variant of cotton contamination cleaning machine, improved version of metal detector and diverter and standard fire diversion system.

Ms Carmina Castella, Director of Amtex (AMEC), the association for Spanish textile machinery industry, is excited while recounting the steady growth of the Spanish machinery industry in the global arena. The fact that the next ITMA 2011 is going to be held in Barcelona in Spain has lent renewed interest to her sentiments.