TMT/OKi printer with new white toner for textile sector

TheMagicTouch, global pioneers of the digital image transfer process for the past 20 years, announce the arrival of yet another significant milestone for the garment decoration and promotional gift industry. Introducing the exclusive new OKI C711WT Colour-Plus White LED Printer with white toner added to the CMY colour process. This unique innovation with the new toner delivers very good opacity and therefore a very high ‘White’ factor for non-fabric hard surface applications such as folders, mugs, binders, leather and PU surface products as well as garments and textiles. In conjunction with the release of the new printer, TheMagicTouch...

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DTG Printing & Rhinestone Machines Offers By Coldesi

Silk screen printing and tee shirt embroidery designs has become a lucrative business for garment printing business owners. But for a business to grow, a company must have the right equipment that is reliable and can handle the large demands posed by customers. ColDesi INC is here to help these business owners by offering the required machines. ColDesi INC has always offered embroidery machines and direct-to-garment (DTG) supplies to retailers. But now, business owners can obtain DTG printing machines and rhinestone machines as the type of services that they offer to customers. Garment printing business owners can choose from single-head...

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Textile Overstocks - Global Marketplace for Excess Stocks

Fibre2fashion, which recently launched “Textile Overstocks”, an exclusive marketplace dedicated for liquidation of textile surplus stock and apparel overstocks, has received an overwhelming response from the global textile manufacturers, garment producers and textile trading community. Fibre2fashion is a global B2B platform, which has been serving the worldwide textile, apparel & fashion industry since more than a decade through its various trade and knowledge services; has launched ‘Textile Overstocks’ in its continuing endeavour to provide niche and value-added services. Textile Overstocks is a specialized global trading platform to clear...

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DSI UV inkjet printer Demo - Labelexpo Americas

Stork Prints will be demonstrating its unrivalled expertise in many different aspects of digital and rotary screen printing for labels and packaging at the Labelexpo Americas, 11-13 September in Rosemont, Illinois, USA (Hall A, booth 529). Due to its successes in Europe and the first sale in North America, the show’s highlight will be the UV inkjet label printer DSI with several live demo’s per day.  Stork Prints is a pioneer in digital printing and active in the digital printing industry for over 25 years and has over 4000 inkjet systems installed worldwide. Other products include Stork Prints’ famous rotary screens and the brand new gravure sleeves program.  One of the main attractions at our stand will be the DSI UV inkjet printer. The Stork Prints DSI UV inkjet label...

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Cotton swab machines leaders join forces

Falu AG of Switzerland and Bellini & Meda Srl of Italy are pleased to announce that they have joined forces in the area of the cotton swab business. Falu will assume responsibility for customers, markets, distribution and product design under the brand name Falu, Bellini & Meda will assume responsibility for manufacturing components, modules and assemblies for the cotton business. Bellini & Meda will continue its food machine business in its own right and will remain a specialist in the field of food packaging machines. The cooperation between Bellini & Meda and Falu represents a pooling of expertise of two major players...

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Faux Real launches humorous & outrageous apparel line

 Faux Real, the novelty shirt showcasing one-of-a kind 3D printing techniques launches a new line of entertaining apparel featuring t-shirts with images sure to garner a double take, this August at STREET/MAGIC in Las Vegas August 20 - 22. Showcasing a line of both men’s and women’s styles, Faux Real T’s are the perfect combination of quirky, funny, and scandalous pictures for consumers who want to stand out from the everyday fashion crowd. Adding to the current best selling, black and white "tuxedo shirt', and the “1970’s Hairy Chest”, a shirt printed with a peace sign necklace and aviator sunglasses over a suede vest, are shirts...

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Web Processing develops hot-melt carpet-backing machine

Web Processing (M/C) Ltd. - a United Kingdom-based manufacturer of coating, laminating, flocking and prepregging machinery for the textile, paper and plastic industries, and a Cygnet Tex-Web company - has developed a carpet-backing machine that enables manufacturers to manufacture fully recyclable floor coverings and thereby decrease the volume of commercial and domestic carpet sent to landfills. The Hot-Melt Carpet-Backing Machine applies a thermoplastic adhesive that replaces traditional difficult-to-recycle carpet-backing materials such as latex, polyvinyl chloride and bitumen. According to the company, carpet backed with the...

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ParAid Textile invests in latest hi-tech machinery

Telford-based ParAid Textile Services, which specialises in the design and assembly of straps, harnesses and other sewn products, has significantly boosted its infrastructure and expanded its workforce, following its investment in the latest hi-tech machinery. The new Genesis 2300 conveyorised textile cutting machine is manufactured by Blackman & White Ltd and is known for its speed and cut accuracy. One specific feature of the machine is its optical recognition camera which allows it to cut individual pattern graphics precisely and quickly. The purchase will allow ParAid Textile Services to bring all its fabric cutting and preparation...

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Indonesia trims budget for textile machinery upgrade

Indonesian Ministry of Industry has announced a reduction in the budget allocated for machine upgradation programme, which ams at enhancing the competitiveness of textile, leather and footwear industries. Industry Ministry’s Textiles and Miscellaneous Industries Chief, Ramon Bangun, said the Ministry would cut the budget allocation for the programme by 4.6 percent from last year’s Rp 152.5 billion to Rp 145.5 billion this year. The reduction in budget allocation followed a need for budget efficiency required to balance the delay in fuel price rise. Mr. Ramon informed that a sum of Rp 34 billion, which is equal to 23.37 percent...

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Lakshmi Machine Works net profit dips in FY12

Lakshmi Machine Works Limited (LMW), a leading textile machinery manufacturer in India, has posted net profit of Rs. 1.37 billion during fiscal year 2011-12 ending March 31, showing a 17 percent decline compared to net profit of Rs. 1.66 billion registered during fiscal 2010-11. However, LMW’s net sales increased by 17 percent year-on-year to Rs. 21.13 billion during last fiscal over its net sales of Rs. 18.04 billion reported during fiscal 2010-11. The Coimbatore-based company’s exports too grew to Rs. 3.21 billion during last fiscal, as against its exports worth Rs. 2.84 billion during the previous year. Last fiscal’s figures...

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Walmart to sell UK-designed clothing in Chile

Retail giant Walmart is set to begin selling UK designed apparels in its stores in Chile on a trial basis. The new range of clothing has been designed in the UK by Asda’s George business. Currently, Walmart stores in many countries offer garments under the George brand, but these are made locally. Walmart will experiment selling UK designed apparels at its 47 stores in Chile. The new range will be appropriate for the climate in that country, which follows southern hemisphere seasons. George at Asda said, it is an important experiment and hoped it would be a success for both kidswear and womenswear segments. For more details please...

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Expansion of SGS Egyptian Textile Testing Laboratory

SGS has announced the opening of its new premises in Cairo offering a complete suite of facilities and services, enhanced in capacity and capability, for the testing of textile and leather goods. The relocated testing laboratory is able to serve clients in local and international regions who are seeking access to the Egyptian textile market. With significant increases of textile exports and the newly enforced inspection certificate requirement for imported textile and leather products, the demand for consumer product testing services has been rising in Egypt. SGS has relocated its existing Egyptian textile testing laboratory, founded in 1996,...

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French industrial group acquires SwissTex France

Reyes Groupe, a French industrial group, has announced acquisition of all assets of another domestic firm SwissTex France SAS, under the new name Verdol. Previously known as RITM SAS, SwissTex supplies twisting and cabling machinery and extrusion lines to the filament yarn market. It also engages in processing yarns prepared from natural, artificial, synthetic and mineral fibres, and supplies textile yarns that cover twisting and cabling, covering and winding, as well as other types of technical yarns. Reyes said it has worked with SwissTex for over 25 years and it is well aware about the products, expertise and even complementary...

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Oerlikon Textile to tap key Turkish textile markets by ITM

Oerlikon Textile, market and technological leader in the field of textile machinery and plant, will be showing its strengths on an area of approx. 400 m2 at booth B210 in hall 2 during the ITM, which takes place in Istanbul on 21-24.4.2012. Show highlights include the Autocoro 8 rotor spinning machine, the POY take-up winding machine WINGS for polyamide 6, the BCF best seller S+ and the energy-saving Volkmann CT two-for-one twisting machine. Oerlikon Textile will show pertinent exhibits for these products. In addition, Oerlikon invites visitors to a “virtual showroom” in which they can familiarize themselves with complex installations and process...

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Maharashtra govt earmarks Rs 908mn for textile sector

In its effort to attract more investments in the textile sector, as proposed under the state textile policy, the state government of western Indian state of Maharashtra has sanctioned a sum of Rs. 908.3 million for the textile industry, Finance Minister Ajit Pawar said while presenting the state’s annual budget for 2012-13.The Minister said the new textile policy contains proposals for additional interest subsidies for the projects selected under the Textiles Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS).Besides, a sum of five billion rupees has also been apportioned for providing electricity to powerloom industry at subsidized rates, he added.The...

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French textile machinery leaders to exhibit at Turkey fair

French machinery manufacturers have been actively preparing ITM 2012 which is taking place in Istanbul, April 21-24. They are used to come to ITM and, more generally, to Turkey which they consider a strategic market. Their latest regional collective action took place last October 2010 in Gaziantep (Turkey) and Alepo (Syria) where they organized two conferences, in Gaziantep mainly focused on the carpet industry which is so important in this fast growing city of Eastern Turkey. For Evelyne CHOLET, the French Textile Machinery Manufacturers Association’s (UCMTF) Secretary General, “next ITM will be a major opportunity to meet once more our customers, communicate, at the highest level, about their needs to compete successfully on the ever changing global market, to introduce must-have new products,...

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India biggest market for Chinese textile machinery

“India is the largest overseas market for Chinese textile machinery and is also the biggest reason for Chinese producers looking forward to setting up shop in India”, a top official of a Chinese textile machinery association told fibre2fashion. At a recent road show in Ahmedabad, to promote ITMA Asia + CITME 2012, fibre2fashion caught up with Mr Zhao Xiaogang – Director, China Textile Machinery Association (CTMA) and the Indian representative of the event – Mr Sooraj Dhawan. CTMA which is the co-host of ITMA Asia + CITME 2012 will be held from June 12 to 16, 2012 in Shanghai and will have around 1,400 textile machinery exhibitors, up from...

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Chinese textile machinery producer may dock in Gujarat

China Texmatech Co. Ltd. (CTMTC), one of the largest Chinese textile machinery producer, importer and exporter, has yesterday concluded feasibility studies to set up a production base in Gujarat – India. Mr. Wu Xiuhua, Vice President of CTMTC, who had earlier visited Gujarat with an official delegation from CTMTC in November, confirmed the same to fibre2fashion. Fibre2fashion had earlier reported in November 2011 that the officials from CTMTC were on a visit to Gujarat and had also met the Chief Minister of Gujarat – Mr Narendra Modi and senior officials of the Industry Ministry. “Our technical team recently visited Gujarat and has completed...

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Orders for Italian textile machinery sector up in Q4

Orders for Italian textile machinery manufacturers were on the rise again during the last quarter of 2011 after two quarters of fall down. The results were gathered by the quarterly survey conducted by The Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers (ACIMIT). Overall orders for the period from October to December 2011 rose up 28% over the previous quarter, at a value of 90.2 points. The most significant increase regarded orders in foreign markets (+32%), whereas on the domestic market orders were up 15%. “We’re still far from the levels achieved in 2010,” comments Sandro Salmoiraghi, President of ACIMIT, “but this recovery, compared...

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Toyota Industries takes majority stake in Uster

The Board of Directors of Uster Technologies AG has noted that Toyota Industries Corporation has, as expected, increased its equity stake in Uster Technologies AG through the previously announced acquisition of the shares held by Groupe Alpha. On completion of this transaction, Toyota Industries Corporation will own 50.34% of all publicly owned shares in Uster Technologies AG. The Board of Directors has also noted Toyota Industries Corporation’s confirmation that it will make a public offer for all outstanding shares in Uster Technologies AG within the statutory deadline. The independent members of the Board of Directors continue to recommend...

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Aussie firm installs wool coring machine at Katanning

Westcoast Wools has recently installed a four-tube Jetco automatic wool coring machine, the first and only WA wool testing site outside the Perth metropolitan area. The purchase of the machine costing more than Au$ 60,000 is expected to prove beneficial for woolgrowers in the South West, as they can now get their wool tested at Katanning, without a need to drive all the way to Perth. The machine was in great demand and several buyers were in pursuit of the same following its limited availability. After fall of the wool industry, these machines are now produced only in South Australia and that too in limited quantity. Like other companies,...

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Ho Chi Minh Uni student Le Nguyen receives Rieter Award

This year Rieter had again presented their popular Rieter Award to a student in Vietnam, after a break of 4 years. This time the Rieter Award was presented to Ms. Le Nguyen Bao Quyen, from the Ho Chi Minh University of Technology. Ms. Le had made her thesis about none woven, another very interesting branch in the diversified field of textile applications. Ms. Le could enjoy the Rieter Award week in Switzerland and Barcelona middle of September this year together with all the other Award winners from all over the world. The hand over of the crystal and the certificate has been done on the occasion of the Rieter Symposium in Ho Chi Minh...

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T-shirt Magic invests in high technology equipment

The Australian direct to garment printing market is predicted to continue its exceptional growth in 2012 according to comments from Greg Stone, Director GJS Machinery. “Last year we predicted that 2011 would be a tipping-point in direct to garment technology in Australia and we are very pleased to see that through our close relationship with Brother Australia that this prediction has become a reality with tremendous interest in these products throughout the year and more and more people realising the true potential that exists in this now proven technology,” Stone said. “We even worked over the Christmas holiday break installing garment printers...

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Five Thread Overlock Thread Breakage Detector

Overlock, also known as "serging" or "serger stitch", can be formed with one to four threads, one or two needles, and one or two loopers. Overlock sewing machines are usually equipped with knives that trim or create the edge immediately in front of the stitch formation. Household and industrial overlock machines are commonly used for garment seams in knit or stretchy fabrics, for garment seams where the fabric is light enough that the seam does not need to be pressed open, and for protecting edges against raveling. Machines using two to four threads are most common, and frequently one machine can be configured for several varieties of overlock stitch. Overlock machines with five or more threads usually make both a chainstitch with one needle and one looper, and an overlock stitch with the...

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Texprocess Americas to address most pressing issues

2012 Texprocess Americas Symposium developed by leading industry experts to address the most pressing issues. The latest in product development, technology, and international trade updates for the sewn products industry will be presented by industry experts and leaders. from around the world during the 2012 Texprocess Americas Symposium being held April 24 - 26, 2012 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Held concurrently with the exhibition, the symposium will contain nine sessions with more than 42 presentations in a variety of formats that will cover a wide range of topics including sourcing to the European market, sourcing...

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Textile industrial cloud production equipment launched

Shoou Shyng Machinery Co Ltd launched a new series of textile industrial cloud production equipment and each equipment contains a huge information system. Like artificial skin needle punching machine, high-temperature oxidation alumina fibers double-site needle punching machine, 6000 g/m2 super thickness glass fiber needle punching machine, aerospace industrial ceramic fiber needle punching machine, green felt production equipment, Lightweight of automotive interior production line, the V-lap production equipment for heat-proof and Fire-Resistive material in aviation industry and bullet train. Shoou Shyng’s needle punching machine which has...

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New KARL MAYER ML series upgrades the production of lace

On the one hand, standard lace is one of the essential ingredients in the successful repertoires of lingerie and clothing manufacturers. On the other hand, these delicate fabrics are among those textiles that are subject to the rapidly changing trends of the fashion world, which make increasingly stringent demands of the production technology. Above all, the demand is for the efficient production of even short runs, short changeover times and flexible patterning possibilities – and all this must be achieved for the lowest possible purchasing price. KARL MAYER has reorganised the set-up of its ML series of machines so that it can optimally support...

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Solar machine to revolutionize Indian silk reeling

The traditional tiring technique of reeling silk, under which first cocoons are soaked in a pot and then yarn is spun manually, is likely to come to an end with the launch of the Solar Multi Muga Reeling cum Spinning Machine. The new machine is so devised that it can simultaneously carry out the reeling as well as spinning jobs for different varieties of silk like Mulberry, Muga, Eri and Tasar without any laborious human effort. The new machine is a brain child of Mr. Manoharmayum Manihar Sharma, an innovator and a master craftsman of Adarsh Kartha (Marked) Industries based in Nongmeibung Pung Makhong, near Imphal, the capital of Northeast Indian State of Manipur. The machine designed by Mr. Manihar uses a solar plate to operate, which has a capacity to charge 17 volt to 15 watt on a usual...

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