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Cotton / Yarn / Surat Update

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October 2017 ISSUE

CONTENT

Advertiser Index

15- Ease of Doing Business 16- Global Dollar Strength: Implications For Rupee And Em Currencies. 17- Opinions on Demonetisation after a year

REPORT

19- Cotton and Cotton Yarn Exports Surges 20- YNFX Price Watch Report 22- Surat Update 23- WALL OF FAME: Naia 24- SUSTAINABLE FIBRE: Bamboo 27- TECHNICAL ARTICLE: Study On Air Filtration Characteristic Of Needle Punch And Thermal Bonding Nonwoven Fabrics by DKTE Institute 33- TECHNICAL TEXTILE: Automotive textiles – Un-tapped Market in India

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Is Indian Economy Growing or been Shattered?

Recently the World Bank published a report on Ease of Doing Business of 190 economies with the pa-rameters like starting business, dealing with construction permit, getting electricity, registering property, paying taxes etc. In this report India stands at 100th positions, where it climbed 30 ranks up from the last report. In India city-wise, Ludhiana ranks first, Ahmedabad ranks 5th, New Delhi 6th, Mumbai 10th. This study shows that has-sles, corruption, unorganised sector is everywhere in the world.

Last year the government took a bold step of “Demonetisation “of Indian currency. After a year now, our industry has still not revived and few cluster members already closed their unit. We have taken views of some industry clusters and industry contributors in this issue.

Leading daily media publishing report about demonetisation effect as “ Tirupur’s Rs. 42000 crore textile hub fears a wipe-out “, “Power loom units shut in Bhiwandi”, “Surat industry shaken and still suffering due to demonetisation” Major cluster of industry in poor health and about to die.GDP growth came down to 5.7%. This is really a growth or betterment for poor?? The purpose of demonetisation is defeated for the textile industry clusters.

After GST implication, is the industry in a growth stage??? Few Corporate like Alok in debt, GBTL sold their stack; clusters are shutting down, many more. We are heading towards more organised culture with GST implica-tion, but in a process we may wipe out few unorganised clusters from industry. Every change has brought new challenge to the industry from Charkha to spinning mill to powerloom to composite mill to modern mill culture; we have evolved as an industry. This is the time of revolving economy and industry.

We are hoping for the best future ahead for the industry and its contributors...!!! Innovate and Grow, that’s the mantra for all..!


Ease Of Doing Business In Textile Sector

Introduction

India has recently jumped 30 positions upwards, to be-come the top 100th country in terms of ease of doing business. This was announced by the World Bank Group’s latest Doing Business 2018: Reforming to Create Jobs re-port. This article discusses the various measures that fa-cilitate ease of doing business in the textile sector.

Overview of the Indian Textile Industry

The Indian Textile Industry plays a pivotal role in the In-dian economy, owing to its contribution to the nation’s industrial production, GDP, exports and high employ-ment generation. The textile sector contributes 14% to industrial production and 4% to India’s GDP. The export earnings of this sector amounts to 13% of overall Indian exports. The textile sector also has the second largest em-ployment generation after the agriculture sector.

Foreign Direct Investment in the Textile Sector

The Foreign Direct Investment [FDI] inflows in the tex-tile sector, inclusive of dyed and printed textile, stood at US$2.47 billion from April 2000 to March 2017.

As per the consolidated FDI Policy by Department of In-dustrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, 100% FDI is allowed in the textile sector under the automatic route. The Ministry of Textiles has also set up an FDI Cell to attract FDI in the textile sector in the country.

Schemes pertaining to the Textile Sector

The Ministry of Textiles had implemented ‘Amended Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme [ATUFS] with ef-fect from 13.01.2016, for a period of seven years. The ATUFS scheme provides one time capital subsidy for in-vestments in the employment and technology intensive segments of the textile value chain keeping in view pro-motion of exports and imports substitution.

Under the Scheme for in situ up-gradation of plain power looms, the Government provides financial assistance to economically weaker plain powerloom units for upgrada-tion of their existing ordinary looms with additional fea-tures. This scheme provides a level playing ground to the economically weaker plain powerloom units to compete with other players in the domestic as well as international markets.

Labour Initiatives

In order to encourage employment generation, the dhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojana (PMRPY) Plan Scheme was designed, where the Government of India pays .33% EPS contribution of the employer for the generation of new employment. This scheme has a dual benefit, where,

on the one hand, the employer is incentivized for increas-ing the employment base of workers in the establish-ment, and on the other hand, a large number of workers will find jobs in such establishments. A direct benefit is that these workers will have access to social security ben-efits of the organized sector.

In addition to the above, the Government has introduced Integrated Scheme for Skill Development. The purpose of this scheme is to address the trained manpower needs of textiles and related segments including Handicrafts, Han-dlooms, Sericulture, Jute, Technical Textiles etc.

Innovation

In order to help budding entrepreneurs develop innova-tive technical textile products, the Government has set up six Focus Incubation Centres under the Technology Mis-sion on Technical Textiles.

Fiscal Initiatives

The total budget allocation for the textile sector is Rs. 6226.5 crores for the year 2017-18. There are a slew of in-centives provided in the current budget, which has been welcomed by the textile sector, discussed below: � ATUFS received an allocation of Rs. 2013 crores for

2017-18. � Scheme for in situ up-gradation of plain power looms

received a budget of Rs. 68.31 crores. � Fund allocation under Pradhan Mantri Paridhan Roj-

gar Protsahan Yojna is Rs 200 crores. � Integrated Scheme for Skill Development for the tex-

tile sector received Rs. 174 crores. � Reduction of corporate tax by 5% to MSME (turnover

below Rs 50 crores), which would benefit textile and apparel industry as majority of the enterprises fall into this category.

� Basic custom duty on Nylon mono filament yarn (for use in long line system for Tuna fishing only) has been reduced to 5 per cent (from earlier 7.5 per cent).

Conclusion

The Government is targeting to achieve US$ 300 billion worth of textile exports by 2024-25 and create additional 35 million jobs in the textile sector. The fiscal incentives, along with the measures focusing on skill de-velopment and innovation, pave a promising road for the Indian textile industry in the future.

Varsha G Subramanian, TVC – Editorial Assistant

DOING BUSINESS


Global Dollar Strength: Implications For Rupee And Em Currencies.After a prolonged period of USD weakness, we are finally witnessing a period of USD strength that has managed to sustain long enough to debate whether global macro eco-nomic factors have changed to warrant a fundamental change in outlook for the USD. The question is whether the recent USD strength is on account of actual improve-ment in US macros (actual pick up in inflation expecta-tions) or on account of weakness in other major curren-cies due to their own specific factors (EUR, GBP, AUD and JPY)

How much of USD strength is on account of better US macro?

USD weakness was a result of unwinding of Trump trades that had been initiated in anticipation of a strong fiscal push that was expected to drive up US yields and the US Dollar. The inability of Trump administration to push through reforms resulted in unwinding of reflation trades. Lack of pick up in inflation despite economy being close to full employment gave the US Federal Reserve the comfort to hike rates and shrink its balance sheet gradually. As a result global liquidity started chasing emerging market assets in pursuit of higher yields, which in turn resulted in a phenomenal rally in emerging market stocks, bonds and currencies. Though recent data from the US sug-gests that inflation and wage growth are finally showing signs of picking up, they remain well below the Federal Reserve’s target of 2%. Moreover inflation excluding food and energy i.e. core inflation continues to remain soft. Headline inflation has been higher on account of gaso-line prices that have moved higher due to hurricane in-duced supply disruptions. As long as structural pick up in inflation is absent, the US Federal Reserve is likely to per-severe with its policy of removing accommodation very gradually. This implies that there is no immediate threat for EM assets from Fed policy in the near future. The key risk for EM assets stems from any breakthrough on the legislative front, especially passage of tax reforms*.The US president has set Thanksgiving as the deadline for the passage of the tax reform bill. It would be interesting to see if tax reform turns out to the first legislative victory for the Trump administration.

How much of USD strength can be attributed to weak-ness in other currencies?

A large part of recent USD strength can be attributed to weakness in other currencies due to specific factors. The ECB’s stance was dovish. Though the ECB trimmed asset purchases to EUR 30 billion per month from EUR 60 bil-lion, it reiterated flexibility with respect to duration and size of future asset purchases. The timeline for the first hike has therefore been pushed further into the future.

An element of political uncertainty introduced by the Catalonia referendum and ensuing developments have also weighed on the common currency. The Spanish gov-ernment invoked article 155 and revoked autonomy of Catalonia, bringing it under Madrid’s direct control. Fresh elections in Catalonia are scheduled for December 21st.

The Sterling continues to be driven by Brexit related headlines. The BoE is likely to hike rates in its November policy but pace of future hikes is likely to remain slow on account of Brexit related uncertainties. The Aussie Dollar has broken down after weaker than expected CPI num-bers. The RBA is expected to keep rates at current low levels well into 2019. With Shinzo Abe consolidating his political position post the snap election in Japan, Abe-nomics is likely to continue and this should keep Yen from appreciating sharply.

Implications for EM currencies

As long as USD strength is on account of weakness in other currencies due to their own specific factors, it is not likely to weigh on EM currencies. We could head into a phase where USD strengthens against majors and weak-ens or trades sideways against EM currencies.Key risk to EM currencies stems from hardening US rates on account of tax reform in US which looks more likely now than ear-lier. For Rupee in particular domestic factors can assume greater significance. With FPI debt limits close to full utili-zation the pace of Rupee appreciation seen earlier is un-likely. Performance of BJP in Gujarat state elections will be closely watched. Management of fiscal deficit by the central government and details regarding issue of recapi-talization bonds will also be tracked. Any further uptick in global crude prices could result in a sell off in bonds due to higher inflation expectations. Crude sustaining above USD 55 per barrel and US 10y yields breaking above 2.50% could act as triggers for next leg of up move in USD/INR. 64.35 on the down side is a crucial support in the near term.

Mr. Abhishek GoenkaCEO and Founder : IFA Global)

ECONOMY UPDATE


Opinions On Demonetisation After A YearDemonetisation has been promis-ing for traders as black money has been wiped out from the market, so thereis no delay in fabric de-livery. Businesses have witnessed tremendous changes has more e-transactions are taking place and not forgetting GST which has re-

duced the burden of paying so many different taxes.

Vinod ChotaniMd of Sudha Mills India Pvt Ltd

Rajendra ChettyMD of Srivari Industries

Madhoo KapoorMD, APPAREL and LEATHER TECHNICS PVT. LTD.

Honest tax paying businessmen and industrialist were not affect-ed by Demonetisation. Yes, black market suffered during Demon-etisation buts then to they are still streaming in the market. India on its peak of progress as electronic money and transaction is on full-fledged.

Demonetisation is very good for financial growth of the country and companies existing in coun-try. As regards to ALT has straight norms from the beginning notdid-not change by Demonetisation. Its bring rationalisation to business and GST has given fair play ground to every industry.

Demonetisation is first in India as in textile Industry nobody was sure about the result but it is well enough, situation moneywise quite good. Credit purchase is very much low now, Demonetisa-tion has change the scenario. In the beginning there were several difficulties but over all benefits are goods.

As a result of Demonetisation, we face some instability in first six month but after six months we seen more clarity more accountability and purity in business.If everything going well and good and everybody support it’s definitely make India’s and Indian future bright.Any New comers can achieve their goal in this new era of business.

Shiv KanodiaEx. Hon General SecretaryBharat Merchant Chamber

Kaushal ShahMD of KupsEnterprise(Cosset international)

Bhiwandi’s Powerloom Industry Continues To Struggle1) Khalid Ansari, a young businessman who was running his family business for the past 10 years, shut his unit with 24 powerlooms three months back. Demonetisation hit his business hard and forced him to shut his 30-workers unit.

2) Mumna Shaikh has been sending his earnings back home to Sultanpur since 15 years but after the power-loom unit was closed down, Shaikh has not sent a single penny home.

3) There are clear signs that the unorganized indus-try will not be able to survive much longer unless they en-ter the organised sector.

OPINIONS


India’s polyester capital, Surat, is yet to bounce back a year after demonetisation, which led to more than five lakh job losses and an estimated 40% plunge in produc-tion. Most of the shops in the textile markets on the Surat Ring Road, which usually gear up for post-Diwali business rush for the forthcoming wedding season, remain closed.

There is no demand from any quarters – textiles have been almost erased from the consumers’ priority list, thanks to demonetisation and then GST (goods and ser-vices tax),” said Champalal Bothra, general secretary of Federation of Surat Textile Traders Association. The en-tire polyester value chain from yarn to the garment is under pressure. The withdrawal of high-value banknotes put sudden brakes on the disposable income of consum-ers, with grave consequences.

Till a year ago Surat produced 40 million metres of syn-thetic fabric daily. More than 1.5 million workers were in-volved in the process of manufacturing yarns, grey fabric, dyeing, embroidery, packaging and allied services.

Surat boasts 700,000 looms that make the grey fabric, bought by 65,000 traders spread across textile markets such as Radhakrishna Textile Market, New Textile Mar-ket, Surat Textile Market and several others on Surat Ring Road.

The grey fabric would go to the 400 dyeing processing houses and get routed to embroidery units for embellish-ments for the final garment. Surat ushered in polyester

revolution in the country through sheer volume game, of-fering sarees and dress material at Rs 125.

Now, the city presents a sorry picture. The migrant work-force was sent packing to their respective states — Odi-sha, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Bihar — and those who are still here, crave for work. Almost 400,000 women who would earn Rs 300-800 per day by working from homes —sewing, stitching or pasting diamonds and other embel-lishments on fabric — have no work.

Arvind, Sutlej Textiles Show Interest In Buying Alok Industries1) Arvind Limited and Sutlej Textiles are among the inves-tors that have shown interest in buying debt-laden Alok Industries, according to sources.

2) Apart from them, JM Financial ARC and Edelweiss ARC are also understood to have shown interest in Alok In-dustries.

3) The Ahmedabad Bench of the NCLT had admitted Alok Industries for insolvency proceedings in July this year based on the petition by State Bank of India.

4) Alok Industries had total debt of Rs 23,443 crore on its books as on March 2017.

Ref: www.economictimes.indiatimes.com

Polyester Hub In Surat Yet To Bounce Back A Year After Note Ban

GST Survey by CARE Rating Agency

OPINIONS


The 2016-17 cotton marketing year (October to Septem-ber) ended with exports at 6.74 lakh bales (excluding waste) valued at US$1,996 million or INR 13,175 crore. Shipment showed a 6% increase over previous season while value surged 27%. This was largely due to 20% in-crease in price (weighted cotton fibre consignment during the year, led by Mundra and JNPT accounting for 85% of all cotton exported from India in 2016-17. They were dis-tantly followed by Petrapole Road and Pipavav ports.

Peak season shifts and extends

A noticeable shift was seen in peak shipment activity during 2016-17, and this was due to demonetisation of high value currency notes with effect from 9 November. Normally, peak shipment season prevail in between No-vember- February and later tapers off. This year, the activ-ity peaked in December and extended up to May when 79% of the shipment was done. In the previous season of 2015-16, 78% of the shipment was completed between November and March. Thus, the impact of demonetisa-tion was clear visible on both, export volume and prices - which remained unusually high across the season.

Exports at higher price

The year began with export prices averaging US cents 87 per pound and remained very high as the season progressed with similar level seen in July 2017. They re-mained below Cotlook ‘A’ index for most part of the year by about US cents 2-5 having widened to US cents 10 in May. Compared to spot prices (Shankar-6), export prices were slightly below for most months. Comparing simple monthly averages of key price indicators Cotlook ‘A’ (US cents 83 per pound) and Shankar-6 spot rate (US cents 81 per pound) of Cotton Association of India during 2016-17, pegs export average price (US cents 81 per pound) up 13% year on year while Cotlook rose 15% and spot rates

by 14%. Thus, export price realization has been healthy in line with key indicators, despite month on month vari-ations. The surge in prices this season was largely due to farmers resistance to sell crop in transactions using bank-ing system due to paucity of cash. Hitherto, a large por-tion of trade was done in cash, and the sudden overnight policy pronouncement had caught buyers and sellers by surprise with no option of than using banking transac-tions.

Spun yarn export surged to partially recover previous fall

Spun yarn export shipment surged in September 2017, but was only a partial recovery from the significant fall posted in September 2016. Yarn export aggregated 112 million kg in September 2017, up 25% year on year and 26% in value at US$ 341 million. In September 2015, shipments had to-tal 129 million kg worth US$ 359 million which fell to 90 million kgs or US$ 271 million in September 2016. Thus,

exports in 2017 were still below the 2015 levels.

Unit value realization averaged US$ 3.04 per kg, down US cents 16 from previous month, but US cents 2 up com-pared to September 2016. Meanwhile the INR appreci-ated from INR66 in September 2016 to INR63 this year.

Cotton yarn export at 89 million kg worth US$ 280 million (INR 1,765 crore) rose 26% and 27%, respectively in Sep-tember. They found markets in 72 countries at an average unit price realization of US$ 3.13 a kg, US cents 18 less than previous month and US cents 4 up from the same month a year ago.

China increased its import of cotton yarn from India by 70% in value and 63% in volume, followed by Bangladesh and Egypt. During September, 12 countries did not import

Cotton And Cotton Yarn Exports Surges

COTTON REPORT


any cotton yarn from India as they did last year. However, they were replaced by 9 countries which imported yarn worth US$ 2.25 million.

Israel, Paraguay and South Africa were among the fastest growing large markets for cotton yarn.

100% man-made fibre yarns export was at 8.2 million kg in September, comprising 3.7 million kg of polyester yarn, 3.0 million kg of viscose yarn and 1.4 million kg of acrylic yarn. Polyester yarn exports jumped 42% in value while viscose yarn exports value moderated 5% during the month. Acrylic yarn exports were up 7% in September.

Polyester spun yarns were exported to 45 countries in September with average unit price realization at US$ 2.25 a kg, down US cents 12 from previous month. Turkey was the largest importer of polyester yarn, followed by Egypt and USA.

Viscose yarn worth US$ 9.5 million or INR60 crore was ex-ported in September, at an average unit price realization of US$ 3.16 per kg. Brazil was the top importer worth US$ 1.75 million, followed by Belgium with imports worth US$ 2 million.

Blended spun yarns worth US$43 million were exported in September, up 27 per cent YoY in value terms. During the month, 8.4 million kg of PC yarns was exported worth US$ 22 million. Another 4.9 million kg of PV yarns were exported worth US$ 14 million.

Brazil and Turkey were the largest importers of PC yarn from India followed by Bangladesh while, Turkey was the largest importer of PV yarns from India followed by Iran.

Nitin MadkaikarTextile Beacon

YnFx Price Watch Report

Polyester Chain: PSF demand seasonally strong, PFY rolls over

Polyester chip prices in Asia were steady in the last week of October on the back of firm PTA and MEG market. In China, semi dull chip prices were stable amid moderate trading that week. Downstream converters had already stocked up and in turn adopted cautious attitude, leading to tepid trading. Overall, given firm feedstock sentiment and decent demand, FGPET chip market is likely to range-bound in coming weeks. Polyester staple fibre prices fell in China while they were stable in India and Pakistan. In China, PSF offers edged down during the week since mar-

ket was dominated by sidelined stance. Demand for PSF was seasonally strong at around the September to Octo-ber period, prompted Chinese producers to raise their export offers during that period. Rigid demand for PSF still existed. PFY prices rolled over in the Asian markets of China, India and Pakistan.

Nylon Chain: Rising crude sets nylon market on up-trend

Caprolactum prices trended up in the last week of Octo-ber in line with rising benzene cost and tight supply. In China, CPL offers were up that week due to short sup-ply amid sound demand. Overall, CPL prices are likely to move up further on tight supply.Nylon or polyamide chip prices generally climbed in Asia amidstrong caprol-actum cost during the week. In China, nylon market rise slowed down as plants continued to operate at high rates that week. Purchasing sentiment in the downstream was mixed, and as a result, bright nylon chip market stabilized and semi-dull nylon-6 chip headed further north. Overall, nylon chips prices are likely to fluctuate on a bit higher note in coming weeks. Nylon filament yarn prices gained that week supported by rising raw material cost and im-proving downstream demand. Overall, nylon yarn prices are likely to be stable in coming weeks.

COTTON REPORT

YARN REPORT


Acrylic Chain: ACN prices continue to rise, ASF steady

Acrylonitrile prices in Asian markets rose on persistent tight supply across the region in the last week of October. Strong demand from downstream market also supported that robust rise in prices since there was limited product availability. Prices have rose more than US$500 in the past 2 months amid tight market. China’s acrylonitrile imports in September increased by 67% as compared to Augustat 26,124 tons on domestic tight supply. In Europe, acrylonitrile spot prices jumped that week as deals be-came more consistent but volumes were still difficult to obtain. In US, ACN export spot prices declined during the week on expected production improvements in future. Acrylic staple fibre prices rolled over in the Asian markets of China, India and Pakistan.

Viscose Chain: VSF price falls in China

In the last week of October, viscose staple fibre prices were down in China while they were firm in India and Pa-kistan. In China, viscose staple fibre prices moved down amid increased supply as plants ran at higher rates dur-ing the week. Cost pressure was high on the back offirm dissolving pulp prices at home and abroad. Downstream demand weakened significantly, resulting in sluggish VSF sales and in turn higheri nventory at VSF produc-ers. Some VSF producers carried out monthly settlement prices, while downstream mills showed low buying inter-est amid sidelined stance. Overall, VSF market is likely to drop slightly in coming weeks. Prices in India and Pakistan rolled over during the week. Viscose filament yarn prices in Asia were range-bound during the week. In dissolving pulp market, the offers were firm and previous orders were mostly concluded with no fresh dynamics during the week, with trading prices for hardwood pulp and soft-wood pulp at US$ 925-950 a ton and US$1020-1030 a ton respectively.

Cotton: US futures gain on freezing weather forecast

US cotton futures gained that week on concerns about crop damage due to freezing weather forecasts in Texas. Around 250,000 bales of US cotton production are likely at risk from the freezing weather concerns in Texas. Cotton crop losses from Hurricane Harvey in major producing state like Texas were estimated at about US$100 million. In India, with cotton being sowed on 49% of the culti-vation area in Telangana, the state’s agricul-ture department was concerned about prices de-creasing in the open market this year. In Pakistan, cotton prices hit a two-month

high on panic buying by millers fearing shortage of qual-ity lint in coming weeks.The December US cotton Futures gained 132 points on the week to close at US cents 68.20 per pound. The Cotlook index jumped on the week to close at US cents 79.10 per pound. The China Cotton In-dex rose 1 Yuan to 15,992 Yuan a ton. In Pakistan, the KCA spot rate was up PakRs150 during the week at Pak Rs 6,445 per maund ex-Karachi. In India, cotton prices for most specs fell INR 200-300 during the week with bench-mark Shankar-6 trading at INR 38,300 a candy.

Spun Yarn: Prices edge down in India

Cotton yarn markets were stable in China, down in India while they rose in Pakistan in the last week of October. In China, cotton yarn prices were flat amid bearish sen-timent during the week. Market saw moderate transac-tions, and most orders were for short-term use, indicat-ing that producers did not hold enough confidence on market sentiment in the future. In India, cotton yarn mar-ket weakened that week in line with a decrease in cotton fibre prices. In Pakistan, cotton yarn prices climbed up fol-lowing a sudden rise in cotton prices recently. Polyester spun yarn prices rolled over in China and Pakistan while they declined sharply in India during the week. In China, spun polyester yarn offers were range-bound amid mod-erate sales that week. Sales volume of some individual specs was passable. In India, spun polyester offers were lowered during the week. Prices have lost INR 10 per kg in the last five weeks. During the week, prices dropped 2.8% while they fell 5.4% as compared to the levels four weeks ago. In Pakistan, polyester yarn prices were gener-ally stable.

Viscose spun yarn prices fell again in China while they were unchanged in In-dia and Pakistan during the week. In China, spun viscose yarn mar-ket was weak that week over a fall of viscose staple fiber prices. However, given a small-er markdown compared with that of VSF, buying interest was subdued. Liquidity was sound during the week, but the dull season is expected to befall after 11 November. Prices in India were firm. In Pakistan, viscose fiber prices were not really moving, with relatively lower level of de-mand at the end of the season. And as a result, viscose yarn prices remained unchanged again that week. Blend-ed yarn prices were stable to up in China and India while they were flat in Pakistan.

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Basic Customs Duty On Imported Mmf Increased Upto 25% : Big Relief For Domestic Weavers And KnittersThe weavers and exporters of the city cheers as the gov-ernment has accepted their demand of increasing basic customs duty on imported MMF fabrics. In it’s recent no-tification, revenue department has fixed the floor price of imported fabrics. The duty on imported MMF fabrics and made-ups has been raised from 5 to 20% and 10 to 25% under various Harmonised System (HS) code of the prod-ucts. The textile industrialist has Welcomed this decision as they belives that it will help to curb import of underval-ued fabrics from China and Vietnam.

Various MMF textile association of Surat are demanding increase in customs duty on fabrics created out of im-ported man-made fibre. Because of lower import duty, huge quantity of man-made fabrics had been imported to India in last 2-3 years. Moreover, cheap rates imported fabrics were highly undervalued which resulted in closure of thousands of power looms in Surat, Bhiwandi, Itch-alkaranji, Malegaon and other cities.

Industry sources said, approximately, 5000 crore worth of undervalued fabrics are imported from China and other countries to India every year. The import of fabrics from China is taking place at a cheap price of just Rs.5 to Rs.15 per square metre. This is unbelievably very low price for any type of fabric. The government. has ultimately accept-ed industries demand and increased the basic customs duty on imported MMF upto 25%. This is big relief to do-mestic power loom weavers and knitters. With the fixing of the floor price by the government, the importers will have to show the real value of the fabrics and undervalu-ation will become tough.

Whole Fabric Process Must Be Kept Out Of Gst : Industry Again DemandsThe MMF based Surat textile industry is not happy with the recent announcement of relief in duty rate and GST return filing. The industry beleives that these relief are too late. After GST, textile sector has occured huge losses in last four months. To enhance textile business turn-over and exports, industry again demands that the entire pro-cess of fabric manufacturing to finishing be kept out of GST.

To ease the business process in the textile sector, the central government has declared many relief during last two weeks. The GST on yarn is reduced to 12% from 18%, basic customs duty increased by 25% to curb import of undervalued fabrics from China, and relief in filing of GST returns. However, industry leaders believe that damage

to the textile sector was done when GST came into effect on July 1 and that these late announcements are of no help to the textile sector now.

Powerloom sources said, their demands are still pend-ing. Input tax credit issue is remain same as it was. Still weavers are not able to utilise the accumulation of input tax credit. Traders, embroidery unit owners and lakhs of women associated with embroidery business are unhap-py with 5% GST.

Last week, in a programme organised by Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) and Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SGCCI), GST Council invitee member Pravin Khandelwal said, there is urgent need to correct the basic structure of GST and work to remove technical glitches. The weaving, embroidery leaders said that the polyester fabric passes through 15 different stag-es of production and reaches textile shops. Many small workers are involved at all the stages to give final touches to the fabric. They demands that the entire process of fab-ric manufacturing to finishing be kept out of GST.

Gst On Yarn Reduced To 12% : Weav-ers Waiting For Duty Benefit !!The central government has reduced GST rate on man-made fibres and yarn to 12% but weavers are still waiting for duty benefit. The yarn manufaturers, spinners has not passed on duty benefit to the downward weaving indus-try. On the contrary, they have raised the yarn prices. They took the prices of texurised, processed and roto deniers at new high. The current price of 80 crimp is Rs. 114-115 per kg. and 80/72 roto based quality reached at Rs. 118-119 per kg. increased upto 5%.

Earlier in GST regime, MMF synthetic yarns were slotted under 18% GST rate while the fabrics were slotted under 5% GST slab with a condition of no refund ITC at fabric stage. This had created a huge accumulation of non-refundable ITC with the weavers and blockage of work-ing capital. After many representation from the textile industries, last month government has reduced the GST on yarn by 6%. Now, with the reduction of GST to 12%, it was expected that yarn prices will come down and power loom industry will be benefited. But, this equation is in dark yet.

Powerloom sources said, the spinners and yarn manu-facturers has not passed on the duty cut benefit. Instead, they have increased the yarn prices upto 5%. They are go-ing to be benefited with the reduction in GST rate and will get ITC refund. The industry has raised concerns on the increase in the price of yarn by 5%. The ITC accumulated in the weaver GST ledger will be transferred to the spin-ners account.

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Brand name: Eastman NaiaTM cellulosic yarn

Company name: Eastman Chemical Company

Brand Tagline: Naia – from nature to fashion

Segment: Fibre – Yarn manufacturer

USP of Brand: Naia is built upon three main pillars with a sustainable foundation. i.e Comfort, ease of care and luxury.

Eastman Naia™ cellulosic yarn was launched in January 2017 and is uniquely positioned to equip brands to meet the desires of today’s consumer. Consumers can feel the cool and soft hand, resulting from the superior breatha-bility over other cellulosic fibres and all synthetic fibres like nylon and polyester; it also dries faster.

Ten months with its launch, Naia has seen tremendous growth in the market and is a well-known brand. It has been highlighted by Jos Berry, global trendsetter and lin-gerie guru, in her show ‘Whisperings’ at Interfilière Paris in January. At each of Jos Berry’s subsequent style forums at her shows, she has featured Naia prominently. She has picked various garments made with Naia fabric to be dis-played in her fashion shows which exemplify the beauti-ful drape, flow, vivid colours, textures and various prints that Naia brings to garments.

The Eastman Naia team is committed to product inno-vation based on a solid understanding of market needs. New grades of fibre are always under development to meet evolving demands by mills and brands. This process of continual innovation requires a high level of commit-

ment to scientific research combined with anticipation of market needs. It is a continuous challenge for the team to keep pace with the changing global market demands and delivering a product that meets the highest level of qual-ity year after year.

Naia was launched in January 2017 and has subsequently been featured in shows that covers global market. The brand has been displayed in Asian markets (Hong Kong in June and Shanghai in October), European market (Paris in January and July) and the Americas (New York in Sep-tember).

Considering all the positive attributes that Naia brings to garments, including comfort, performance and sustain-ability, the future is bright for the Naia family of cellulosic yarns. While the initial launch was targeted at the inti-mate apparel sector, it has applications that range from athleisure to women’s wear to formal wear for both men and women.

Eastman Naia is a global company with offices in many markets and regions around the world. This allows the team to interact and engage with local mills and brands, directly providing them with sales support and technical support as needed.

The team will continue to engage in the world market, identifying market gaps, trends and needs to deliver the best to our customers and consumers. Eastman is dedi-cated to providing innovative products and solutions to meet underserved market needs.

Naia Brings A Superior Breathable Fibre To The Market

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Clothing Made From Bamboo Fibres

Bamboo is a highly renewable grass and it has natural antibacterial properties resulting it be classified as eco-friendly. The process of manufacturing the Bamboo fibre though, cannot be termed as “environmental-friendly “. Since it involves multiphase bleaching process.

Bamboo is a plant, commonly grown in Asia. It is a type of grass with a hard, woody, hollow stem. Bamboo is the worlds fastest growing plant, sometimes rising several feet in 24 hours. Bamboo grows to maturity in around 3 years. Bamboo fibre has strength, is durable, and has good durability and tenacity. The thinness and whiteness degree of bamboo fibre is similar to classic viscose fibre. It owns high abrasion – proof capacity. It is a natural cel-lulosic fibre which can cause natural degradation in the soil and it will not cause any pollution to the environment. Bamboo can be spun pure or blended with other materi-als such as Cotton, Hemp, Silk, Lyocell, etc.

Until you see, feel, spin and blend, you will not believe it. Brilliant white, soft as cotton wool, cool as a mountain stream – is this corny or what? – But its true. The Chinese have triumphed again. The fabric that China use for fash-ion fabrics is made from Bamboo.

Manufacturing

Bamboo fibre and Bamboo pulp are made from Bamboo that grows widely throughout China. It is a kind of regener-ated cellulose fiber, which is produced from raw materials of Bamboo pulp by the sole patented technology of China Bambro Textile Co, Ltd. It is the leading company of ap-plication, marketing and services of Bamboo fibre. It is the large scale supplier focus on innovation, manufacturing and trading of the natural, green and biodegradable bam-boo textile fibre. Bambrotex is the leading manufacturer of Bamboo raw materials. They have built the production lines with the most advanced machines (the advanced pulp production system and fibre production system) and they have a stable production capacity of 20000 tons /year now. They produce Bamboo fibre, Bamboo yarns, Bamboo tops and Bamboo filament. It specialises in the research, development and application of the new typed eco-friendly textile material, Bamboo fibre, which fills a new niche in green natural fibre in textile industries. They have started the development and manufacturing of the downstream products of Bamboo fiber like yarns, fabrics and apparels, so as to develop its global market and pro-vide customers with perfect technology services and mar-keting support.

Bamboo fibre is made from well –selected non-polluted Bamboo in Yunnan Province.

Firstly, Bamboo pulp is refined from Bamboo through a

process of hydrolysis alkalisation and multiphase bleach-ing. Then Bamboo pulp is process into Bamboo fibre like the same process of Viscose fibre manufacturing. Bamboo fibre process is wet spinning. Repeated techno-logical analysis has proved that Bamboo fibre has a thin-ness degree and whiteness degree close to normal finely bleached Viscose and has a strong durability, stability and tenacity. It stands abrasion and possesses a perfect qual-ity to spin. It is available in 1.5 denier x 38 mm, 5 dens x 38 mm and 3 denier x 76 mm. In June of 2001, Bambrotex purchased a small spinning plant of 50,000 spindles with most advanced machines for ring spin yarns. In October 2005, with the requirements of high level fine yarns mar-kets, they brought in another advanced line of compact yarns with the high-level quality as a main supplier to all over the world.

Bamboo yarn is made out of 100% Bamboo fibre or blended with other material. Bamboo yarn can then be made into other final products such as garment, under-wear, towel etc. fabric made of Bamboo fibre and Bam-boo yarn is characterized by its good hygroscopility, excel-lent permeability, soft feel, easiness to straighten and dye and splendid color effect of pigmentation. Cloth has been made from Bamboo fibre mixed with Cotton or Ramie or Nylon or Polyester having same superior property. Many kinds of knitting and weaving fabrics are made (piece dyed, yarn dyed or printed)

Bamboo fibre is manufactured in the following qualities.

Fineness ( dtex ) Staple length ( mm )1.33/1.56/1.67 38

2 452.22 512.78 513.33 64/765.56 38

Bamboo fibre like viscose fibre is manufactured in follow-ing forms.

1. Bamboo staple fibre. 2. Bamboo filament. 3. Bamboo tops.

Bamboo filament

Bamboo Filament looks like silk with the character of bright, smooth and soft. As compared to silk, bamboo fila-ment has better straight performance, low cost, antibac-terial, breathable, water absorption. Bamboo filament are used to make midi, night suit, swimsuit and T-shirt. Products developed with bamboo filaments are quite ap-

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preciated by the high-level markets. It is available in the following qualities.

Fineness (denier ) No of filaments75 18 / 24

120 30150 30300 60

Bamboo Tops

Bamboo Tops were brought by Bambrotex in 2000. They were made by the most advanced machines from Italy and France. Bamboo tops are made by a combing pro-cess that removes the short and nailed Bamboo fibers leaving the longer Bamboo fibres in a parallel alignment. Bamboo tops were used to make Worsted yarns. These are smooth and less likely to pill than Woolen yarns. It is available in the following qualities.

Fineness (dtex) Length (mm)3.33 763.33 883.33 903.33 100

Bamboo tops are widely used in world textile markets, such as the trouser and suiting fabrics. Bamboo yarn is made in two types.

1. Bamboo ring spun yarn. 2. Bamboo compact yarn.

The Bamboo yarn also has the capability of natural anti-bacteria. Bambrotex can supply 100 % Bamboo ring spun yarn (count is from 8 to 50 s) and bamboo 70 % / cotton 30 % (count is from 16 to 50 s) and Bamboo 50 % /cotton 50 % (count is from 16 to 50)

100 % Bamboo compact spun yarn (count is 16 to 40, s)

Characteristics of Bamboo Fibre

Repeated test has proved it has a strong durability, sta-bility and tenacity. The thinness and whiteness degree of Bamboo fibre is similar to Viscose staple fiber further more it owns high abrasion – proof capacity. Bamboo fibre spins nicely. This fiber is a natural cellulosic fiber which can achieve natural degradation in the soil and it won’t cause any pollution to the environment. Bamboo can be spun purely or blended with other materials such as Cotton, Hemp, Lyocell (Tencel) and Modal fiber. After hi-tech disposal, Bamboo fibre is thinner than hair. It has a round and smooth surface, thus it has no stimulation against human skin. Bamboo fibre’s natural ant-bacteria function differs greatly from that of chemical antimicrobi-al. The later often tend to cause skin allergy when added to apparel. Bamboo fibre has particular and natural func-tions of anti-bacteria, bacteriostatis and deodorisation.

What is notable of Bamboo fibre is its unusual ability to breathe and its coolness because the cross section of the Bamboo fibre is filled with various micro-gaps and micro holes. It has much better moisture absorption and ven-tilation. With this unparalleled micro structure, Bamboo fibre apparel can absorb and evaporate human sweat in a split second. In cold weather the cross-sectional struc-ture of bamboo traps warm air. In the heat, the nature of Bamboo is to stay around 2 degrees cooler. Bamboo fab-ric is a natural moisture wicking agent. It absorbs water 3-4 times better than cotton. Just like breathing, such gar-ments make people feel extremely cool and comfortable in the hot summer. It is never sticking to skin even in hot summer. According to authoritative testing figures, ap-parels made from Bamboo fibres are 1-2 degrees lower than normal apparels in hot summer. Apparel made from bamboo fibre is crowned as air conditioning dress.

Bambrotex’s Bamboo fibre is validated by Japan Textile Inspection Association, so even after fifty times of wash-ing, Bamboo fibre fabric still possesses excellent function of anti-bacteria, bacteriostasis. Its test result shows over 70% death rate after bacteria being incubated on bam-boo fibre fabric.

Dyeing and Finishing of Bamboo Textile

Its light singeing, enzyme desizing, moderate bleaching and semi-mercerizing should be applied to the bamboo fabric during its dyeing and finishing process which also avoid drastic condition and use small mechanical tension.

Following are the steps;1. Singeing - moderate condition.2. Desizing - it should be consolidate, desizing rate

should be over 80 %.3. Scouring - pure Bamboo normally need no scour-

ing, sometimes wash it with a little alkaline soap. The scouring process should be made in terms of contents blended with cotton. When pure Bamboo fabrics are under scouring, the alkali should not be over 10 gm/lit but be applied in accordance with the thickness of fabrics.

4. Bleaching - the processing should be made in terms of the specification and thickness of fabrics.

5. Mercerizing - the fabrics are normally free of mercer-izing due to their sound luster and bad anti-alkaline. However, some cases are found in order to increase their absorbance capacity to dyestuff.

6. Dyeing - Reactive dyestuff is used the alkali should not be over 20 gms/lit, the temperature should not be over 100 degree celsius during drying process, low temperature and light tension are applied.

The End-Use Of Bamboo Fibre

Bamboo fabrics are made from pure Bamboo fibre yarns which have excellent wet permeability, moisture vapour transmission property, soft hand, better drape, easy dry-

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The Inkjet India conference, in its seventh year will be hosted at The Lalit, Mumbai. The event is organised by Catalysing New Technologies Expositions and Services (CNT; formerly Inkjet Forum India) will re-launch itself as the Digital Textile Symposium.

Conference will feature topics from high-speed digital fab-ric printing solutions; digital fabric printing for increase profits; pigment inkjet technology for textiles; software solutions enabling digital textile printing; latest technolo-gies for textile sublimation printing; emergence of new business models driving digital textile printing; solutions for durable printing of home textile; direct disperse inkjet printing onto synthetic fabrics. According to CNT, the fo-cus will be on creating business opportunities for various stakeholders of the digital textile printing industry and charting out a sustainable growth part for this technology in India.

Dilip Raghavan, editor of Colourage will kick-start the con-ference by introducing the agenda of the Digital Textile Symposium which will be followed by a keynote speech

by Jos Notermans, commercial manager of SPG Prints. Other topics to be covered during the conference are lat-est trends in digital textile printing machinery, ecological digital printing on textiles, quality ink solutions for quality results, pre-treatment for digital textile printing, evolving design thinking for digital textile printing, etc

Also, Aditya Chandavarkar of CNT will highlight the digital textile printing scenario in India and introduce the digi-tal textile journal. CNT Expositions and Services manages exhibitions, seminars, conferences for 3D printing, inkjet printing and textile processing.

ing and splendid colours. It is a newly founded, great pro-spective green fabric. Bamboo intimate apparels include sweaters, bath –suits, mats, blankets, towels have com-fortable hand, special luster and bright colours, good wa-ter absorbancy. Bamboo fibre has a unique function of anti-bacteria, which is suitable to make under wear, tight t-shirt and socks. Its anti-ultraviolet nature is suitable to make summer clothing, especially for the protection of pregnant ladies and young children from damages of ul-traviolet radiation.

Bamboo non-woven fabric is made by pure Bamboo pulp, which has similar properties as Viscose fibres have. How-ever, Bamboo has wide prospects in the field of hygiene materials such as sanitary napkin, masks, mattress, and food packaging bags due to its anti- bacteria nature.

Bamboo sanitary materials include bandages, masks, sur-gical clothes, nurse’s wears and so on. The Bamboo fibre has a natural effect of sterilisation and bacteriostasis and therefore it has incomparably wide for ground on appli-cation in sanitary material such as sanitary towels, gauze mask, absorbent pads, and food packing and so on. In the medical scope, it can be processed into the products of Bamboo fibre gauze, operating coat and nurse dresses etc. Because of the natural antibiosis function of the Bam-boo fibre the finished products need no adding of any artificial synthesized antimicrobial agent. Therefore, Bam-boo fibre products will not cause skin allergies and at the same time it has a competitive advantage in the market. Bamboo bathroom series enjoy good moisture absorp-

tion, soft feel and splendid colours as well as anti bacteria property which are very popular in home textiles bamboo towels and bath robes have a soft and comfortable hand feeling and excellent moisture absorption function. Its natural antibiosis function keeps bacterium away so that it will not produce bad odour.

Bamboo decorating series have the functions of anti-biosis, bacteriostasis and ultraviolet-proof. They are very advantageous for utilisation in the decorating industry. Along with the badly deterioration of atmosphere pollu-tion and the destruction to the ozonosphere ultraviolet radiation rays are more and more becoming a problem for human beings. Long time exposure to ultraviolet ra-diation will cause skin cancer. Wallpapers and curtains made from Bamboo fibre can absorb ultraviolet radiation in various wavelengths thus they lessen the harm to the human body. More important, bamboo decorating prod-ucts will not go moldy due to damp. Curtains, television cov-ers, wallpapers and sofa slip covers can all be made from Bamboo fibres .

Dr N.N.MahapatraPresident COLORANT LTD

Digital Textile Symposium To Focus On Creating Business Opportunities

EVENTS

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Study On Air Filtration Characteristic Of Needle Punch And Thermal Bonding Nonwoven Fabrics.

Abstract

In this paper investigated that filtra-tion property of nonwoven fabric. Nonwoven, as a filtering medium were widely preferred in the technical textile sector. Nonwoven filters were designed according to their end uses. That is nonwoven fabric produced by using needle punch and thermal bonding technique.

Keywords: Needle punch, Thermal bond, Air filter, Air permeability, Po-rosity.

1. Introduction

Air pollution is a major environmental health problem affecting everyone. It occurs when the environment is contaminated by a chemical, physi-cal or biological agent that modified the natural characteristics of the at-mosphere. Motor vehicles, industrial facilities and forest fires are common sources of air pollution. It is respon-sible for exacerbation of asthma and increase in respiratory infections es-pecially in children. Increased mor-bidity and mortality, due to cardio-vascular diseases including stroke, chronic respiratory diseases and can-cers have also been attributed to air pollution. These facts indicate that air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental health risk.

In this studied, polyester staple fibers used for producing a needle punch and thermal bonding fabric. The non-woven fabric is more porous struc-ture, fabric than woven fabric. They are widely used in filtration industry for filter application. Such as we were produce needle punch fabric fives sample and thermal bonding fabric five samples. The main object of this study we was find out the which fab-ric most suitable for filter application. There are both nonwoven fabric have different filtration characteristics like as air permeability, bursting strength,

pore size and porosity. But in filter ap-plication the porosity of fabric is very important properties in filter cloth.

2. Terms and Definition

Needle Punch Nonwoven fabric:

Needle punching is process of mechanically interlocking fibers webs by using barbed needle to reposition some of the fibers from a horizontal to verti-cal orientation. There are thousands no. of needle interlock fibers in a web. The needle punch fabric shown in fig. 1a.

Thermal Bonding Nonwoven fab-ric:

The thermal bonding technique is bonding a web of fiber heat with pres-sure and without pressure. A wide range of fibers is available for ther-mal bonding. It is an environmentally clean because there are no residual ingredients to be disposed. There are two methods of thermal bonding, viz. calendar bonding and through hot air bonding.The thermal bonding fabric shown in fig. 1b.

Air filter:

To improve the purity of filtered ma-terial is the main purpose of the fil-tration. Sometimes filtration is used to recover solid particles. Textile filter materials are generally used for dry filtration (solid gas filtration) and wet filtration (solid liquid filtration).

3.Materials and Methods3.1Raw material

The required fiber was purchased from the market. The denier of fiber is 6 Den Polyester and 4Den LM. Nee-dlepunch fabrics, composed with 6D 100 % PET fiber. And thermal bond-ing fabrics composed of 6D and 4D LM 100% PET fiber. Both nonwoven technique had each five sample were

produced with different five GSM. Thetable no.1 shows theproperties of fibers.

3.2. Web preparation : Table No 1.Properties of fibre

Nonwoven fabric samples were pre-pared by needle punch and thermal bonding process. The web of required for areal density was produced by carding machine and laying of web in machine and cross direction was car-ried out to produce the samples. The prepared web was entangled with Trutzschler’s needle punch machine and bonding by Yamuna’s thermal bonding machine. The detail of devel-oping 5 samples of needle punch and 5 samples of thermal bonding, pre-pared from raw material, are given in Table 2 and 3 respectively. The prop-erties of developed needle punch and thermal bond nonwoven sample are tested and compared.

3.3 Process flow of manufacturing of needle punch and thermal bond-ing nonwoven fabric

Nonwoven sample were produce with needle punch nonwoven fabric on Trutzschler’s nonwoven machine and thermal bonding fabric on Ya-muna’s thermal bonding machine. In nonwoven needle punching machine produced five samples with different GSM. And thermal bonding machine produced five samples with different GSM. In this nonwoven technique process line is same up to cross lay-ing machine. In this manufacturing process fiber web divided after cross layer machine i.e. one side needle punch machine and another one thermal bonding fabric. The manu-facturing process flows .3.4Fabric Testing

Sr.No Parameter 6Denier 4Denier

1 Diameter(µm) 24.7 18.4

2 Staple length (mm) 60 40

3 Strength (gpd) 4.90 3.47

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3.4.1 Fabric GSM

Nonwoven fabrics find out the mass per unit area (GSM) by using ASTM D6242 standards. The specimens of the size 10.2 X10.2 cm were cut randomly from different places and weighed in electronic balance with an accuracy of 0.01 g.

3.4.2 Thickness Measurement

Thickness is the distance between one surface and it’s opposite. Non-woven fabrics are very soft and highly compressible i.e. high pressure would givean inaccurate result of thickness. As per ASTM D5729standard the thicknesses of the nonwoven fabrics were measured using digital thick-ness tester.

3.4.3 Air permeability

We are finding out the air permeabil-ity of nonwoven fabric as per ASTM D737-04 test method. The air per-meability was tested using TEXTEST FX3300 air permeability tester. The applied pressure was selected at 125 Pa and 38 cm2area.

3.4.4 Pore size

We are finding out the pore size and their distribution as per ASTM E 1294 Test method by using capillary flow porometer (PMI). For evaluation of pore size in nonwoven fabric we are using liquid extrusion technique. In this technique, a wetting liquid Water (surface tension 72 dynes/cm2) fills the pores of the sample and pressur-ized gas pressure removes the liquid from the pores. There are find out dif-ferential gas pressure and flow rates through dry and wet samples were measured to calculate pore diam-eters.

3.4.5 Bursting Strength

The Bursting strength of the fabric was measured by using hydraulic bursting strength tester as per ASTM D 3786-13 method. The opening of the lower clamp of the instrument has diameter of 31.5 mm, 7.8 cm2.

3.4.7 Porosity

The find out the porosity as one ex-

ample, the thickness of a polyester fiber web having a surface of 1m2 and a weight of 280 g/m2 was determined at a number of points and the aver-age thickness, calculated as 2.2 mm. The volume of the fiber web is thus 0.22 cm x 10,000 cm2 = 2200 cm3 giv-ing a density of 280/2,200 = 0.1272 g/cm3. The density of polyester fiber is 1.38 g/cm3. The relative density (δ) of the web is thus 0.1272/1.38= 0.0921. The porosity (∈) of the web corre-

sponds to 1-δ, i.e. 0.9079.

4. Result and Discussion

In this investigation, the needle punch and thermal bonding nonwoven fab-ric discussed on thickness, air perme-ability, pore size, bursting strength, orientation of fiber and porosity of different GSM fabric. Mainly the non-woven fabric for filter application re-quired air permeability and pore size.

4.1 Technical details of fabric:The fabric samples were prepared on Trutzschler Needle Punching ma-chine, Yamuna thermal bonding ma-chine and its particular are as follows:

4.2 Physical testing of fabric: These samples were tested as per standard procedure and the results are indicat-ed in Table 2 and 3 respectively.

As shown in Table 2, these are result of needle punch fabric sam-ple N1, N2, N3, N4 and N5 respective-ly. Also in Table 3, these are result of thermal bonding fabric sample T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5 respectively. The result of this sample produced by two dif-ferent technique needle punch and thermal bonding with five different GSM analyzed using Two Way Analy-sis of Variance.

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Figure 2: Thickness (mm) of nonwoven fabric

The thickness of nonwoven fabrics shown in fig.2.The statistical analysis shows that there is significant effect of needle punch and thermal bonding on fabric thickness. In both manufacturing of nonwoven fabric as GSM increas-es, thickness also increases. Because of keeping constant web density in carding machine and increasing the no. of layers of web in cross layers machine.

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4.2.2 Air permeability

Figure 3: Air permeability (cc/cm2/s) of nonwoven fabric

The air permeability nonwoven fabric of shown in fig.3. The statistical analysis stated that there is significant ef-fect of needle punch and thermal bonding on fabric air permeability. In the needle punch fabric and thermal bonding fabric shows air permeability goes as per GSM increases. The each GSM of both samples thermal bond-ing fabrics air permeability value is more comparatively needle punched fabric. In the needle punch fabrics air permeability goes down when increasing GSM, because of areal density increase then air permeability decrease.In the case of thermal bonding fabrics results shown as same like needle punch fabric. It is affect on filter prop-erties, the fabric density increases then resistance to air flow increases, also filter efficiency increases.

4.2.3Pore Size:

Figure 4: Pore size (micron) of nonwoven fabric

The pore size of nonwoven fabric shown in fig.4. The statis-tical analysis shows that there is significant effect of nee-dle punch and thermal bonding on fabric pore size. As per results shows thermal bonding fabrics higher value than needle punch fabrics. In the needle punch fabric pore size goes down N1 to N5. Because of in case of needle punch fabric as more close structure make with higher GSM i.e. GSM increases with compactness increases. In the case of thermal bonding fabric pore size exactly opposite to needle punch fabric. In the thermal bonding fabric GSM increases air permeability increases T1 to T5, because of thermal bonding fabric fully one structure than needle punch fabric. The pore size also affect on filtration char-acteristic because of in air filter media particle trap when particle size is more than filter media pore size is less. In the air filtration media small particle size we can use needle punch fabric compare to thermal bonding fabric.

4.2.4 Bursting Stren gth:

The bursting strength of nonwoven fabrics shown in fig.5.The statistical analysis stated that there is significant effect of needle punch and thermal bonding on fabrics bursting strength. In case of needle paunch fabric burst-ing strength is increases as a GSM increases sample N1 to N5. Also in case of thermal bonding fabric bursting strength is increase with GSM increases sample T1 to T5. Because of fiber entanglement and compactness is in-

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creases with increasing mass per unit area. In this testing find out the thermal bonding fabric bursting strength is less than needle punch fabric.

4.2.5 Porosity:

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Figure 6: Porosity of nonwoven fabric

The porosity of nonwoven fabrics shown in fig.6.The sta-tistical analysis shows that there is significant effect of needle punch and thermal bonding on fabric porosity. In both the fabric as GSM increases, the porosity also in-creases N1to N5 as well as T1 to T5. The porosity of ther-mal bonding fabrics is more than needle punch fabric. Because of air gaps present in thermal bonding fabric is higher than needle punch fabric. This characteristic is im-portant for air filtration. The porosity is depends on fiber density and web areal density. In air filtration require higher porosity for to get more filtration efficiency.

5. Conclusion:

From above results it has been concluded that nonwoven needle punch fabrics and thermal bonding fabric weight and thickness, both found inversely proportion to air per-meability. Over all physical characteristics of the needle punch fabric gives the better performance for filter appli-cation than thermal bonded fabric, because of the needle punch fabric have higher bursting strength than thermal bonded fabric. Also needle punch fabrics have better air permeability, pore size and porosity.

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Cadini Italy, a premium menswear brand with a pres-ence in over 40 countries worldwide, recently launched a national advertising campaign titled ‘The Power of Presence’to introduce the best of Italian fashion to India. The new campaign has been created by MX Advertising and shot by internationally renowned ad film director Kal Karman.

Aptly coined ‘The Power of Presence’, the campaign has tried to establish its finesse of Italian creativity, style, production know-how and quality finishing. It features three commercials and presents a diverse range of luxury fabrics and apparels that has been conceived, designed and created with great attention to details upholding the standards set by the finest Italian craftsmen in the making of an indulgent menswear range.

An infinite history of excellence in creativity has made Italian fashion a synonym for great taste, careful manu-facture and attention to detail. While the TVCs are focused only on the product’s proposition, a clear essence of Ital-ian heritage of refined craftsmanship is portrayed. The brand’s logo, the Etruscan Horse, also plays an integral part of the story in the campaign. Representing strength and power, the logo is a tribute to their legacy; an embodi-ment of all the best qualities of the modern man – power, perseverance and pride.

With the campaign, the company intends to target men across India above 25 years of age. The idea has been drawn from the rise of fashion – forward youth who not only follow international trends but also believe in the power of presence.

Sanjay Srivastava, Assistant Vice President – Sales and

Marketing, Cadini Italy said, “Cadini has continuously sus-tained a great passion for style, quality and research and has evolved as one of the most sought after brands from Italy. With the new multi-channel marketing campaign, CADINI is trying to cater to the ever-evolving fashionable men of India who understands the importance to dress-ing the part.”

Cadini products are available at exclusive brand outlets and leading retail outlets across India.

CADINI’s Logo stands for a picture of a styled Etruscan bronze horse, a strong symbol in the Etruscan Culture representing strength and power, much similar to the fea-tures of a confident contemporary man.

Italian Brand Cadini Launches A Advertising Campaign ‘The Pow-er Of Presence’ To Introduce Best Of Italian Fashion To India.

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Automotive Textiles - Untapped Market In India

Change is the need of the hour. Change and Success go hand in hand. Recently we are witnessing the changing face of India due to change in leadership. Textile- The golden industry of India has at last accepted that change is inevitable and has taken steps in new direction. Entre-preneurs are now shifting from conventional textiles and thinking about investing in the future of textiles i.e. tech-nical textiles. Recently a lot of technical textile projects are being thought about.

Though India is the 2nd largest textile economy in the world after China; our contribution in one of the grow-ing textile segment, technical textile is negligible.This is an eye opener to how much behind we are as far as techni-cal textile market is concerned. Moreover the other hard hitting fact of Indian technical textile scenario is that we have penetrated our roots in technical textile segments like packtech (36%), Clothtech and Hometech. These seg-ments though are very well technical textile products hav-ing ample of growth however when it comes to the mon-etary value of the end products it is sadly on the lower side. The global technical textile market on the other hand is dominated by Mobitech having 23% share followed by Indutech, Sportech which are high value products.

When it comes to demand supply analysis of Mobitech, the huge potential of this sector is very much evident to the layman as well given the tremendous growth in Auto-mobile industry. With rising economy having high dispos-able income and growing standard of living the demand for Cars is increasing day by day. In 2016 there were around 7.2 crore cars produced globally whereas, in India 36 Lakh cars were produced. Indian automobile industry is one of the largest in the world. It accounts for 7.1% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The Passen-ger Vehicles segment witnessed a growth of CAGR 10.09% and the commercial vehicle segment witnessed growthof CAGR 9.4% during FY06-16. This ever increasing demand of automobiles is mainly due to the status symbol that Cars are having in India and also recently this has further accelerated with the launch of rental car service provider

as people have now started investing in cars and register-ing them with rental services giving them an added source of income just as over the years they have been investing in property, gold to secure their futures.

All said and done be it any kind of car, the automotive textiles is a must in any types of vehicle. The various auto-motive textile products are Nylon tyre Cord, Seat belt, Car body covers, Seat upholstery, Automotive Carpets, Head-liners, Sunvisors/sunblindsand Airbags.

Apart from the huge demand for the utmost essentials of cars like seat covers, car flooring, seat belts etc. Recentl-ythe awareness of one’s safety has also increased the de-mands of air bags. Safety is of utmost importance today, The scenario has changed gone are the days when people insisted on cars without air bags in order to get afford-able lower prices. Today there are cars that are market-ing purely on basis of the number of Air bags in the car thereby ensuring the safeguard of maximum passengers on board.

In India, the government has recently made it manda-tory for all the cars to have air bags and three additional safety features for on board protection from accidents post October 2017. This compulsion will thus increase the demand for air bags exponentially as most of the budget cars today like Alto, Eon, Santro, Nano, and the Datsun GO are not providing air bags. A per car need of minimum 2 bags in such cars that are currently having highest market dominance in India will ultimately create a huge market for air bag manufacturer.

In value terms, the global automotive textiles market size was USD 23.82 billion in 2015 and is expected to reach USD 31.75 billion by 2024. Whereas, in volume terms, it was 3.81 million tons in 2015 and is expected to reach 5.14 million tons by 2024.

The Indian Automobile industry is estimated to reach 10.3 thousand Cr. by 2017 having a CAGR of 14%. Amongst the various automotive textiles produced in India, Nylon tyre cord accounts over 60% of the total technical textile

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consumption in the segment followed by seat upholstery

/ fabric with a share of around 14%. Though the Indian market is showing promising growth there is ample of op-portunities for Indian entrepreneurs to encash by invest-ing in auto textiles due to the growing global demand for this market. Conclusion:

Globally Mobitech market accounts US$ 36 Bn contribut-

ing 20% to technical textile market whereas in India the mobitech market is Rs. 11,433 Cr contributing only 10% of technical textile market. This shows that there is a huge mobitech market that can be explored by entrepre-neurs. Despite such great demands the Indian market is still fragile for investing in mobitech projects. The major reason for this setback is the lack of tie up with car As-sembly suppliers. Most of these vendors are stationed in developed nations thereby increasing logistic cost of the product. Tie-ups with these vendors for setting up assem-bly units in India will ultimately decrease the logistic cost. Also from other point increased manufacturers of mob-itech products will help in to bring these vendors to India.

Investing in mobitech product is highly sensible as most of these products are high end products having huge po-tentials ensuring a shorter span and higher return on in-vestments. Domestic production of the airbags and other automobile textiles means that the Indian manufacturers can easily compete with other international mobitech suppliers due to reduced logistics charges. It’s time that we start playing on our strengths and invest in products that will help us compete with global players. We must take advantage of the new windows that are opening and become global leaders than just followers. It is sensible to be the first of a kind rather than just repeating some-one after. Indian Entrepreneurs can come out with busi-ness modules to supply all mobitech products to Indian branded Cars in low segment which is the largest market in India.

Avinash MayekarMD and CEOSuvin Advisors Pvt. Ltd.

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Xaar’s CEO, Doug Edwards, has con-firmed the companyis strengthening its busi-ness in India with its wide portfolio of inkjet printheads and new technology for a varie-ty of print applications. Edwards also outlined

the importance of the Indian market to the company’s global goal to reach annual sales of £ 220 mby 2020.

Edwards gave an update on each of the four strategic pil-lars to Xaar’s2020 goal. “Our focus for the last two years has been to broaden our horizons into a wider range of print applications, all of which are of significant interest to our customers and partners in India. I am delighted to say that results from the first half of this year show that we are making good progress.”

“Product revenues outside of Ceramics are growing by 60%; global sales into the Graphics sector grew by 33%, and we have also made good progress in our Packaging and Product Printing markets, where global sales jumped by 54%. We expect the Packaging and Product Printing area of the business to be about a third larger than Ce-ramics by the end of this year. In addition, we have seen an increase in our Asian business, which now makes up 47% of the company’s overall sales.”

New High Laydown Technology for Indian Ceramics and Packaging markets

Edwards announced that Xaar’sHigh Laydown (HL) Tech-nology, initially launched in the Ceramics market, is now available for packaging customers, enabling raised effect-

sto be added to substrates, transforming standard labels and folding cartons into high value packaging for prod-ucts that can command a premium.

In ceramics applications, High Laydown Technology al-lows effects such as gloss and adhesives to be applied with unprecedented laydown levels – for example, the Xaar 1003 C with HL Technology can achieve a laydown of up to 90 g/m2 at 35 m/min line speed. For labels and packaging, High Laydown Technology with UV varnish en-ables raised or tactile effects to be printed in single pass and with a single print bar – for example, the Xaar 1003 U with HL Technology can achieve a varnish film thickness of 80 microns at 25 m/min line speed. Competitor offer-ings typically require multiple print bars or much lower line speed to achieve the same result.

In addition, the recent printhead launches from Xaar are starting to shift the company towards a broader reach. Of particular interest to the Indian market are the Xaar 1201 and Xaar 5501, both of which are capable of handling aqueous inks. This means that OEMs looking to produce textiles or graphics printers using water-based inks now have access to robust and reliable technologies.

Already making a significant impact in Asia, the Xaar 1201 is a Thin Film Piezo Silicon Micro Electrical Mechanical System (MEMS) technology printhead for printing Wide-format Graphics (WFG) and Textiles with dye sublima-tion, eco-solvent or aqueous inks. To complement the Xaar 1201, Xaar recently announced the Xaar 5501, which previewed in China a few months ago. This compact and lightweight printhead is the first product resulting from Xaar’s collaboration with Xerox, and delivers high print quality combined with low printing costs, whilst integra-tion costs will also be kept to a minimum.

Xaar’s Latest Inkjet Printheads And New Tech-nology Strengthen Its Position In India

Edana Launches Call For Papers For The International Nonwovens Symposium

Brussels– EDANA, the leading global association serving the nonwovens and related industries, has opened the call for papers for the 2018 Inter-national Nonwovens Symposium,

Organised on behalf of the nonwo-vens industry in general, the Sympo-sium will feature a mix of topics on nonwovens acrossall types of applica-tionsand address the innovative tech-nologies, products and uses of non-

woven materials or products as well as the essential role of raw materials.

The conference will focus on the fol-lowing topics:

• Sustainability, including recycling and the circular economy

• Nonwoven industry trends

• Product, process and material inno-vation

• Hygiene and personal care wipes markets

• Industrial, technical and automotive nonwovens

Table top exhibition space will also be offered to enable companies to establish new business contacts, promote their brand to a global au-dience, launch and demonstrate in-novative technologies, products and services.

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MD Of Colorant Ltd Subhash Bhargava Receives Haryana Entrepreneurship AwardSubhash Bhargava, Managing Director of Colorant Ltd, a leading reactive dyes manufacturerand exporter based in Ahmedabad received the award at the 1st Award func-tion for extending specialised services to the Textile and Garment Industry of India held at Hotel Hive, Panipat on October 7th,2017 organized by Garmek and Igmatex.

Bhargava is native to Haryana and is in the thisindustry for more than three decades. Under his able leadership Colorant Ltd., has beingstablished as a brand giving stiff competition to all major multinational and national dyes manufacturers. The quality, consistency and speciality is second to none in the industry.

Bhargava delivered a very interesting lecture on how Haryana was ahead than other states in all fields. He also mentioned the role of Colorant in shaping the Textile in-dustry based in Haryana.

Birla Cellulose Is Number One* Globally For Its Commit-ment To Sustainable Forestry Management*The Hot Button Issue Report for 2017 – A Ranking of Global Viscose Producers

Canadian environmental NGO, Canopy ranked Birla Cel-lulose as No. 1in its updated Hot Button Report.

Birla Cellulose of the Aditya Birla Group has been ranked Number one globally by the NGO Canopy, in its Hot But-ton Report for it work on the conservation of ancient and endangered forests. Birla Cellulose has a ‘light green shirt’ ranking in the updated and expanded edition of the Hot Button Report released recently, which ranks eleven vis-cose rayon producers that represent 70% of global vis-cose production.

“We are proud of the global Industry leading ranking of Birla Cellulose and thank Canopy for acknowledging our sustainability efforts from forest to fashion. This rein-forces our belief that sustainability is core to our business strategy,” said Dilip Gaur, Business Director, Pulp and Fi-bre, Aditya Birla Group and Managing Director – Grasim Industries Ltd.

“High conservation value forests are an important part of our global ecosystems. At Birla Cellulose, we use only sustainably sourced fibre for our pulp operations. We ad-here to the strict standards of our Global Fibre Sourcing Policy, which focuses on protection of High Conservation Value and Ancient and Endangered Forests”, states Vinod Tiwari, Chief Operating Officer, Pulp Business, Birla Cellu-lose. He added “Birla Cellulose has been striving to deliver quality products while protecting the environment, and

the efforts of all team members have made this achieve-ment possible.”

“We engage with the entire textile value chain and sup-port global brands for their sustainability journey and being a responsible partner to their sourcing needs. We have plans to further support in traceability, certifications and sustainable innovations”, added Rajeev Gopal, Chief Marketing Officer, Birla Cellulose.

Birla Cellulose has successfully completed CanopyStyle Audit and its current supply chains confirm that the risk of sourcing wood from ancient and endangered forests or other controversial sources is low risk, which is an in-dustry leading result.

“We’ve seen remarkable progress with CanopyStyle over the past four years as a result of the collective action of our brands partners. In the upcoming year, CanopyStyle brands and designers are looking for additional leader-ship from their rayon and viscose suppliers,” said Cano-py’s Executive Director and Founder Nicole Rycroft.

Canopy’s Hot Button Issue ranks the world’s top viscose producers on their progress on eliminating endangered forests from their supply. This year the ranking features five new criteria, including priorities on conservation solu-tions and transparency where Birla Cellulose has leader scores. The report is highly anticipated by over 105 global brands, retailers and designers that are part of the Can-opyStyle initiative. It has become a “go-to” resource for fashion brands since first published in 2016.

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New patents protect SigNature T molecular tagging tech-nology and a multimode reader device enabling IT inte-grated instant authentication

Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (“Applied DNA,” “the Compa-ny,” NASDAQ: APDN) is pleased to announce the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 9,790,538 (US 2014/0256881) entitled “Alkaline Activation for Immobilization of DNA Taggants” and a Notice of Allowance of U.S. Patent Application 15/027,454 (US 2016/0246892) entitled “Multimode Im-age and Spectral Reader.”

The ‘538 patent, issued on October 17, 2017, protects the core technology powering Applied DNA’s SigNature T mo-lecular tags in the textile industry and is directed at meth-ods of enhancing the binding affinity of molecular tags to a variety of textile substrates, including cotton, wool, cellulosic materials and man-made fibers. The enhanced binding affinity of the SigNature T molecular tags enables them to survive extremely harsh manufacturing process-es, such as those found in leather, cotton and synthetics manufacturing. The patented methods are currently used in wide range of SigNature T applications, and are inte-gral to the Company’s pursuit of a global textile industry anticipated to grow to $910 billion in sales in 2019 from $750 billion in 2015*.

The ‘454 Application, allowed on October 26, 2017 will is-sue as a patent, and protects Applied DNA’s proprietary Multimode Image and Spectral Reader (“MMR”) device that provides for instant detection and identification of a wide variety of optical, molecular, olfactory and radio based taggants through the use of electronic sensor cap-ture and digital database analysis. The handheld MMR device can rapidly detect one or more taggants and com-pare the detected taggants to library of known taggant configurations to provide instant authentication.

“We take great pride in the patenting of our SigNature T molecular tags, providing us with broad long-term market exclusivity. In addition, the patenting of our MMR device paves the way for the instant authentication of a broad range of taggants and exciting licensing opportunities,” said Dr. James Hayward, president and CEO of Applied DNA. “Protecting our innovations has always been a cor-nerstone of Applied DNA. Our robust intellectual prop-erty portfolio is more important than ever, as industry awareness and acceptance of our technologies is rapidly growing.”

The issuance of the ‘538 patent raises Applied DNA’s pat-ent portfolio to 53, in addition to over 70 pending applica-tions.

Applied DNA Awarded U.S. Patents on SigNature® T Mo-lecular Tag and Multimode Reader Authentication Device

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Textile Machinery Association Of Sweden Is Ready To Weave Success And Growth In Vietnam.

Textile Machinery Association of Sweden (TMAS) has es-tablished a local office in the 7th district of Ho Chi Minh City. Heading the office is Tran Phuoc Thanh, Business Development Representative for TMAS in Vietnam.

Tran comes with experience from the Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group. He has also gathered insights into the industry and undergone training in Sweden, from the Swedish textile machinery makers and their custom-ers. Tran is strategically positioned to market Swedish machinery as well as drive sales and support for TMAS companies in Vietnam.

“TMAS is positioned for the long-term in Vietnam. The country is emerging as the new global production center of textile products. We want to be part of this exciting growth and expansion. We believe we have a lot to of-fer in terms of our knowledge, expertise and innovative technology, “said Mr. Mikael Äremann, president, TMAS.

TMAS helps support member companies to compete in the global textile industry with leading edge production equipment and technology. TMAS member companies are all well-established leaders in various areas of the manufacturing knowledge, and superior products and services.

The textile industry is growing dramatically and Vietnam has been identified as a hub for the Asian textile industry in the next decade. The main reason for this is the increas-ing cost levels in China, causing many textile and garment brands to relocate in Vietnam. In fact, TMAS companies in Sweden have already started realizing a notable increase in demand for their products and services.

“TMAS companies are the perfect match for the Vietnam-

ese textile industry. We are a relatively small, tight-knit group of companies, each specializing in a different key area along the manufacturing process. Our size allows us to be flexible. We work closely with our customers, we listen and adapt quickly to their changing needs as they respond to market demands, “emphasized Mrs. Therese Premler-Andersson, Secretary General, TMAS.

Textile companies in Vietnam are looking for ways to be competitive, and the country is clearly demonstrating that it has the capacity and stamina to deliver. TMAS is committed to enabling the Vietnamese textile industry to flourish well over time.

The Vietnamese textile industry has all the right pre-req-uisites to sustain healthy, long-term growth. “The Viet-namese people are resilient and hardworking, with many who are educated and conversant in English. The country has a long history of overcoming challenges and adapting to change,” said Mr. Mikael Äremann. “Indeed, workers are increasing their skills with every year, and companies are fast realizing that progress that took several years in China is now taking much shorter time in Vietnam, “Mr. Äremann continued.

The challenges and demands of Industry 4.0 are also transforming the global textile industry. Therefore, envi-ronmental and social sustainability, and the importance of smart solutions is of the highest priority for TMAS companies. The goal of all member companies is al-ways to achieve better performance and efficiency while maintaining the highest levels of quality. TMAS is bring-ing world-leading Swedish innovative expertise of smart industries into Vietnam, which will make Vietnam highly competitive globally.

“TMAS is reflective of Sweden’s reputation for reliability, quality and world leading technology. R&D is important and TMAS companies have a solid track record for ensur-ing their customers achieve long-term profitability and growth. Building smart, sustainable solutions is in our DNA, and we will definitely meet the drive for innovation in Vietnam,” said Mrs. Therese Premler-Andersson.

It has been estimated production in the Vietnamese tex-tile and clothing industry will increase by an average of 12-14% between 2016 -2020. Export is expected to reach US$ 50 billion by 2020, rising from US$ 28 billion in 2016.

TMAS is certain that the time is right for a Swedish-Viet-namese collaboration that will lead to a win-win both now and well into the future. The result is an investment In the Vietnamese market through local TMAS representation.

The objective is to provide relevant and precise support

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Thanh Tran Phuoct, Business Development Manager TMAS Vietnam, Mikael Äremann, General Manager IRO AB and President of TMAS


SHOW CALENDAR

November 2017

1-3 International Textile and Apparel Show Dubai/ UAE www.internationalapparelandtextilefair.com

3-5 Garknit X Science City/ Kolkata

15-17 INTEX South Asia Colombo/ Sri lanka www.intexfair.com

16 Digital Textile Symposium Mumbai/ India http://catnewtech.com/DTS2017/

17-20 Texfair 2017 Coimbatore / India www.simamills.org/texfair/

24-27 YFA Show 2017 /ATME 2017 Delhi/ India www.yfatradeshow.com / www.atmeindia.com

26-28 Buyer - Seller Meet ( B2B) Mumbai/ India

27-30 Shanghaitex 2017 Shanghai/ China www.shanghaitex.cnDecember 2017

5-7 China Machinex India/ China Homelife India Mumbai/ Maharashtra www.chlmx.com

7-10 ITMACH India/ ITSE Exhibition Gandhinagar / Gujarat www.ITMACH.com / www.ITSexhibition.comJanuary 2018

9-12 Heimtextil Frankfurt/Germany www.heimtextil.messefrankfurt.com frankfurt/en.html

15-18 TEHRANTEX Tehran/ Iran www.tehrantex.com

19-22 UDYOG 2017 Surat / India www.sgcci.in

19-22 GTE 2018 Delhi/ India www.garmenttechnologyexpo.com

26-28 G Tex 2018 Karachi/ India www.gtexglobal.com

February 2018

2-3 TexNovation Mumbai/ India www.texnovation.com

March 2018

8-10 10thColombo International Yarn and Fabric Show 2018 Colombo / Srilanka

13-15 FILTECH Cologne/ Germany www.filtech.de

April 2018

5-7 Fibers and Yarns Mumbai / India http://www.fibersnyarns.com

14-17 ITM 2018 / HIGHTEX 2018 Istanbul/ Turkey www.itmexhibition.com www.hightex2018.com

19-21 TPF Digital Printing Shanghai/ China http://2016.cstpf.com/en-us/index

and service to TMAS customers. Here, Mr. Tran, with his local market experience and insights gathered from in-depth research and analysis, will prove to be a real asset to TMAS customers.

“I am excited about the tremendous possibilities open to the Vietnamese textile industry, especially by having TMAS as a partner. I am convinced me that each and every one of the member companies has a vital role to play in ensur-ing the growth and success of textile companies here in Vietnam, “said Mr. Tran. “I look forward to enabling TMAS to be a key driver of success for Vietnam, and through Vi-

etnam to the region, and the world.” Mr. Tran concluded.

The Vietnamese textile industry is naturally eager to capi-talize on the textile boom. The 17th Vietnam International Textile and Garment Industry Exhibition, VTG, is designed to portray this positive business potential. This is also where the world can experience the reliable quality and innovative heritage of Sweden through Swedish textile machinery and accessories manufacturers. The textile machinery exhibition will be held in in Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre 22-25 November 2017 in Ho Chi Minh City. Visit TMAS at stand 637.

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DN Associates represent in India the following Textile Machinery & Accessories manufacturers

N.Schlumberger, France : Spinning preparatory machines for Spun and filament LONG fibres (Website:www.nsc-schlumberger.com)

ANDRITZ Asselin Thibeau, France : Complete Nonwoven Lines : Drylaid- Needlepunched, Hydroentangled and others, Wetlaid, Spunlaid and special machines for chemical/hydro finishing (Website:www.andritz.com/nonwoven)

Laroche SA, France: Opening and Blending Lines, Textile waste recycling Lines and “Airlay” Nonwoven Lines (Website: www.laroche.fr)

LACOM GmbH, Germany : Hotmelt Laminating and Coating Systems – Multi Purpose, Multi Roller, Gravure Roller and Slot Die for complete range of Technical Textiles (Website:www.lacom-online.de)

Schott & Meissner, Germany : Ovens, Dryers, Heat Recovery Systems, Heating/cooling calenders, Wet/Dry cooling systems, Cutters, accumulators, Winders, Palletisers and Bonding systems (Website: www.schott-meissner.de)Mariplast Spa, Italy : All type of Yarn Carriers for spun and filament yarns including dye tubes for filament/long fibre yarns (Website: www.mariplast.com)

MORCHEM S.A.U., Spain : PUR Hotmelt Adhesives for Technical Textiles, Solvent Based, Water Based adhesives, cleaners and primers https://www.morchem.com/markets-and-solutions/textile-lamination/

Valvan Baling Systems, Belgium : Baling and Bump forming machines for spun fibres and textiles waste recycling lines (Website:www.valvan.com)

C + L Textilmaschinen GmbH, Germany : Reeling (Yarn Hank Forming) Machines, steaming, Bulking and Banding Machines for yarns (for Western and Southern India) (Website:www.croon-lucke.com)

Schmauser Precision GmbH, Germany : Pin Strips, Faller Bars, Disposable Faller Bars for Intersecting Gills and Chain Gills. Top Combs for Combing Machines in long fibre Spinning Preparatory Lines (website: www.schmauser.com)

Groz-Beckert Carding Belgium NV, Belgium : Clothing for Cards and Cylinders used in processing of long fibres, nonwovens and waste recycling (website:www.groz-beckert.com )

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