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Dec132023 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Innovation award “Cellulose Fibre Innovation of the Year 2024”

Associations, Fairs, Fibers, Spinning - Yarn, Technical Textiles, Textile

Innovation award “Cellulose Fibre Innovation of the Year 2024” Six award nominees will present promising sustainable solutions for the industry in the field of cellulose fibres value chains. The full innovation potential of the cellulose fibre industry will be displayed to a wide audience in Cologne (Germany), and online For the fourth time, nova-Institute awards the “Cellulose Fibre Innovation of the Year” award in the frame of the “Cellulose Fibres Conference 2024” (13-14 March 2024). The conference advisory board nominates six remarkable products and the nominees have the opportunity to present their innovation to a broad expert audience on the first day of the conference. After voting for the winner, the award ceremony will take place in the evening. Cellulose fib

Nov72023 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

French Textile Equipment: Mireille Jautzy, New Secretary General

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Beginning of October, the French Textile Machinery MAnufacturers' Assocation (UCMTF) announced the appointment of Mireille Jautzy as Secretary General. She took over from Christian Guinet who had decided retire. Hugues Schellenberg, the President, would like to underline " it is a great opportunutiy for us to wellcome Mireille. She will bring a new approach regards her experience has been on top positions, taking part to piloting strategies and significant projects. We chose her bringing new ideas and transition with christian Guinet has been smooth and as they had been working together from July this year. Hugues Schellenberg adds it was a significant period while working with Christain Guinet. He had to face the Covid crisis and particular situation over fairs and internati...

Aug42023 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Meeting the need for tomorrow’s textile technicians

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West Yorkshire is to have a first-of-its-kind apprenticeship training course for textile engineering technicians, reflecting a resurgence in the industry locally, and more generally in the UK. Calderdale College has partnered with the Textile Centre of Excellence (TCoE) and the British Textile Machinery Association (BTMA) to develop the bespoke Level 3 apprenticeship course which will start in September 2023. Engineering Technician apprentices at Calderdale College will receive training from the TCoE, helping them to develop the engineering maintenance skills required to close the skills gap in West Yorkshire’s textile industry. While the region has been a flourishing hub for textile excellence since the 19th century and is being revitalised through digitalization and the localisa

Jul212023 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Green lights only for French Equipments at ITMA

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ITMA 2023 has been a great expo for the French exhibitors. Christian Guinet, UCMTF’s Secretary General points out “R&D is embedded in our members’ strategy, but for this ITMA they have secured more budgets than ever. The objectives are ambitious: breaking innovative technologies to offer their customers the opportunity to develop new products, process them in a secure, economical and environment friendly way. Raw materials, energy and water savings are top priorities for our customers both because it is an end market demand and to cut costs. Digitalization and artificial intelligence are essential tools to move into these directions. At ITMA, I was proud to meet so many customers including quite a number of French textile manufacturers as it is a great asset to get an active domestic m

May192023 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

ITALIAN TEXTILE MACHINERY: DROP IN ORDERS FOR 2023 FIRST QUARTER

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The textile machinery orders index for the first quarter of 2023, as processed by the Economics Office of ACIMIT, the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers, declined markedly compared to January-March 2022 (-35%). In absolute terms, the index stood at 84.8 points (basis: 2015=100). This result is mainly due to a reduction in the orders intake recorded by manufacturers on foreign markets. Indeed, foreign orders dropped by 40%, whereas the domestic market showed a 14% increase. The absolute value of the index settled at 78.3 points abroad, while it measured in at 148.1 points in Italy. During this year’s first quarter, booked orders stood at 4.2 months of guaranteed production. ACIMIT president Alessandro Zucchi stated that, “The order index for the first quarter confi

Mar242023 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Acimit’s Press Conference ITMA 2023 (Stresa – 15 March 2023)

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ITALIAN TEXTILE MACHINERY AT ITMA 2023: SUSTAINABILITY AND DIGITALIZATION A WINNING ASSET FOR ITALIAN TECHNOLOGY After a positive 2022, the Italian textile machinery industry looks with optimism to the current year. In 2023, after eight years, ITMA, the most important trade fair in the sector, returns to Milan. It is an opportunity to highlight the excellence of Italian technology and stimulate new investments in the textile industry. Promoted by ACIMIT, the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers, a press conference was held on 15 March at Villa Frua (Stresa, Italy) to unveil Italian participation in ITMA, the leading textile machinery exhibition, scheduled from 8 to 14 June at Fiera Milano – Rho. During the event, Alessandro Zucchi, President of ACIMIT, showed the

Sep72022 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Symposium in Indonesia by Swiss Textile Machinery Association

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Free trade deal boosts export potential! The time is right for Swiss textile machinery companies to grow their export business with Indonesia – one of the world’s top 10 textile producers. A free trade agreement between the two countries came into force in 2021, and market analyses show that there is scope for a significant increase in business in textile and textile machinery sectors. This was the background to a successful symposium in the Indonesian capital Jakarta last month when Swiss Textile Machinery Association members presented their products and innovations to an invited audience of 200 delegates from Indonesian textile companies. The symposium audience was welcomed by Philippe Strub, of the Swiss Embassy in Indonesia; Ignatius Warsito, from the Indonesia Ministry of Ind

May22022 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

VDMA: Next stop Techtextil

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In the run-up to Techtextil, taking place end of June in Frankfurt, nine exhibiting VDMA member companies presented their highlights for the technical textiles market at a virtual VDMA kick-off event themed “Sustainable technologies for technical textiles”. A series of VDMA technology Webtalks are planned up to the fair as well Spotlight Talks during the show. Dr. Janpeter Horn, Chairman of the VDMA Textile Machinery Association and Managing Director of August Herzog Maschinenfabrik stated in his introduction: “This year’s Techtextil is the first important exhibition and get-together for the textile industry in Europe since 2019. For the first time, VDMA will be present with a group stand in hall 12. Altogether, more than 40 VDMA member companies will exhibit in Frankfurt, underlining t

Apr252022 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Turkish textile future enhanced by French equipments

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“Next June 2022, ITM in Istanbul will be the first major textile equipments expo since the pandemic outburst. This is a major opportunity to meet in person with many of our long time Turkish partners” says Christian Guinet, the Secretary General of the French Textile Equipments Manufacturers’ association. He knows this market particularly well as he travelled around Turkey for many many years when he was the marketing manager of a world leader equipment manufacturer. The global turmoil due to the coronavirus has slowed many personal visits but, thanks to new communication techniques, innovation has continued to take place both in end products, equipments and production processes. Christian Guinet adds “market changes are what our industry is about, it is quicker and quicker whatever

Apr132022 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Swiss Textile Machinery members drive filament yarn production for the expanding world of technical textiles

Associations, Fibers, Spinning - Yarn, Technical Textiles

What innovations are made of… Swiss Textile Machinery members drive filament yarn production for the expanding world of technical textiles High-performance yarns now offer almost unlimited possibilities for replacing traditional raw materials in a vast range of technical applications. Often tailor-made, these filament yarns go way beyond the conventional idea of ‘textiles’ – finding new uses in sectors such as automotive, aviation, maritime, medical and construction, among many others. Machines and technology from Switzerland are in the forefront of many such developments, producing the yarns which are the basis for these innovations. Technical textiles are everywhere in our daily lives today, even if we may not always realize it. Some are in more obviously textile products, from