IITS to be held on Internet as of January 2011

Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) in association with BusinessGlobal.com is organising India International Textile Show (IITS 2011), a unique online international trade show showcasing outstanding companies from the entire Indian textile and clothing value chain.

Exhibitors in 5 halls will be showcasing their products and services to international and local customers.


The halls are earmarked for:
Yarn
Fabric
Garment
Home Furnishing
Textile Machinery

Accessories and input suppliers can also exhibit their products in each of the halls.

This virtual exhibition will start on 15th January 2011 and last up to 31st December 2011. Exhibitors may start to decorate their stalls and showcase their products in preview period of exhibition.

Preview for Exhibitors : 1st December 2010 to 14th January 2011
Exhibition Period : 15th January 2011 to 31st December 2011

The show is an opportunity for exhibitors and visitors alike to enjoy a wide-angle view of the worldwide clothing & textile market, to discuss new projects and joint ventures, and to explore new import and export opportunities. The virtual pavilions enable exhibitors to showcase new products and services, and to provide information to thousands of potential business partners worldwide, including clients, distributors, exporters, importers, manufacturers and suppliers.

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Home fashions firm Natco installs high-speed loom

Natco Home Fashions, a domestic manufacturer in the US is installing a seventh loom in its advanced facility in Sanford, Maine. It is a "Carpet and Rug Pioneer" face-to-face loom of high speed. The loom is latest in weaving technology and it is manufactured by Belgium-based manufacturer Van De Wiele, informed the company.

This new loom provides improved flexibility by using complex weave structures and a variety of yarn qualities, and is more efficient than previous generation looms by 30 to 40 percent. As well as, it has the capacity to manufacture additional 160,000 5'x8' rugs per year, informed Mr. Michael Litner, President of the company.

The company is undergoing expansion, under which it recently installed a fourth finishing line and upgraded software on every existing computer-driven loom. Currently, the factory is operational at its full capacity, and weaving is being conducted in three shifts. The factory also operated on weekends.

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FDY learns to fly, too

The Remscheid, Germany, mechanical-engineering company Oerlikon Barmag introduced its latest development for FDY production at this year’s ITMA Asia, from 22-26 June. The market-revolutionising POY concept, WINGS – a crowd puller at ITMA 2007 in Munich – is also transferable to the FDY process.

“We’re still at the testing and trial stage in regard to the operation window. However, there’s one thing I can report: the system works", informs Oerlikon Barmag Managing Director Stefan Kroß of the development success so long awaited by the experts.

"WINGS FDY was the logical next step after we set such a brisk pace with the POY concept", notes Stefan Kroß. "This is something the market has been waiting for. In the FDY process, particularly from an energy standpoint, there is an even greater potential for savings than in the POY process. We are noticing an immense leap in demand for “green technologies” among our customers. Energy efficiency, low wastage rates and environmentally friendly technologies are becoming more and more important." In the FDY process, energy costs account for around 45 to 50% of conversion costs.

The new FDY machine bursts open the boundaries of conventional FDY spinning systems in terms of optimised production processes, waste ratios and energy consumption. Reduced conversion costs, ergonomic workflows, simplified maintenance, considerably shorter commissioning and the high yarn quality the industry has come to expect from Oerlikon Barmag spinning systems are convincing arguments for the new concept.

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WINGS now also for polyamide POY

WINGS, the Oerlikon Barmag winding Machine, System with integrated drawing zone, can now also be used for polyamide spinning plants.

Initially, WINGS was launched exclusively for deployment in manufacturing polyester. Now that the novel concept has replaced virtually all conventional system configurations, the Textile Machine can today also be used for polyamide processes with an operation window of between 20 and 150 den final.

WINGS integrates godets and tangle unit into the winder. In addition to increasing productivity and efficiency, this plug & play machine unit, which premiered at the ITMA 2007 in Munich, guarantees POY producers constantly excellent and even yarn quality.

And less space requirements and savings potentials with regards to operating staff make a valuable contribution towards increasing efficiency. The optimized yarn path ensures even gentler yarn treatment and hence first-class yarn quality.

Source: Fibre2fashion.com

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Textile machinery parts & carding machine price up

The official Wholesale Price Index for 'All Commodities' (Base: 1993-94 = 100) for the month of July, 2010 rose by 1.0 percent to 262.5 (Provisional) from 259.8 (Provisional) for the previous month.

Inflation
The annual rate of inflation, based on monthly WPI, stood at 9.97% (Provisional) for the month of July, 2010 (over July, 2009) as compared to 10.55 % (Provisional) for the previous month and -0.54% during the corresponding month of the previous year. Build up inflation in the financial year so far was 3.59% compared to a build up of 4.60% in the corresponding period of the previous year.

The index for 'Non-Food Articles' group rose by 0.8 percent to 288.7 (Provisional) from 286.4 (Provisional) for the previous month due to higher prices of raw rubber (7%), castor seed (5%), raw silk and fodder (4% each), groundnut seed (3%), raw jute, copra and sunflower (2% each) and rape & mustard seed, gingelly seed and tobacco (1% each). However, the prices of niger seed (3%), raw cotton (2%) and linseed (1%) declined.

The index for 'Textiles' group declined by 0.4 percent to 163.6 (Provisional) from 164.2 (Provisional) for the previous month due to lower prices of hessian cloth (14%), hessian & sacking bags (3%), other cotton yarn (2%) and polyester staple fibre and nylon filament yarn (1% each). However, the prices of texturised yarn (3%), synthetic yarn (2%) and cotton yarn-cones and cotton yarn-hanks (1% each) moved up.

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