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Organisers would like to remind delegates there are only a few days left to save on registration for TCL2010, the international Textiles Coating and Laminating conference to be held in Cannes, France from 4-5 November 2010. If you have not already registered please note that the last date to qualify for the early-bird rate is 8 September. To ensure your place, please register at www.technical-textiles.net/symposium.htm , or by emailing sales@intnews.com or calling +

The International Conference on Technical Textiles and Nonwovens, which is being held from 11-13 November 2010 at IIT Dehli, in India has issued a call for papers. The conference is being organised by the Department of Textile technology at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. The main objective of the conference is to bring together industry, research organizations and academia involved meaningful discussions on existing technical textile products, ex

Swiss chemicals giant Clariant has unveiled Pad/Sizing-Ox, a new eco-efficient dyeing process that the company says gives brand owners and retailers new opportunities to offer fashionable, high quality jeans based on the most sustainable, resource-saving production method to date. Visitors to the Munichfabricstart 2010 bluezone will be the first to experience Clariant’s “latest step forward in Clariant’s Advanced Denim technology that lets the textile industr

As with the first quarter of 2010, the Lenzing Group has made optimum use of favourable global market conditions achieving excellent results in Q2. Consolidated sales in the first half of 2010 climbed 43.6 %1 to EUR 847.2 million from EUR 589.9 million. This was the company’s strongest rise in sales ever, which it says was was made possible by higher fibre volumes and price dynamics of global markets as well as full first time consolidation of the company’s pu

Building on the success of the first two IFAI Advanced Textiles conferences (in Berlin and Brussels), IFAI presented a third successful edition in Paris 16-17 June, in the modern Congress facilities of UICP (right next to the Eiffel Tower). The Industrial Fabrics Association International hosted 70 participants from Europe and the U.S. at the 2010 conference, which focused on major applications of technical textiles and investigated new technology solutions and

EDANA has announced its Keynote speaker for the 9th edition of its OUTLOOK, personal care products conference which will take place in Budapest, Hungary from the 22nd to the 24th September 2010. Robert Ward, Director of Global Forecasting for the Economist Intelligence Unit will address the topic ‘Global Economic Perspectives: EIU’s overview of global growth perspectives and factors.’ In his role, Ward oversees the Economist Intelligence Unit's global forecast

Massif, a leading supplier of flame resistant, high performance apparel to the military, law enforcement and other high risk professions has chosen TEXbase to streamline their material development, colour approval and compliance processes. TEXbase is a ‘Software as a Service’ provider of collaborative Material Lifecycle Management (MLM) software. The company says that from concept to compliance its solutions allow businesses to reduce operating expenses a

Unifi, Inc. today released preliminary operating results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended June 27, 2010. For the 2010 fiscal year, net income was $10.7 million or $0.18 per share, which represents the company's first profitable year since fiscal 2000 and an improvement of $59.7 million or $0.97 per share, from the prior year period. Highlights for the 2010 fiscal year include: Net sales increased by $63.1 million or 11.4 percent to $616.8 million,

The 2011 edition of the Techtextil North America Symposium will be held in conjunction with the western edition of Techtextil North America, March 15-17, 2011 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. The symposium will parallel the theme of, “The Innovation Interchange”, and will run concurrent with the exhibition. This new region for Techtextil North America will further offer speakers a potentially new audience and exposure to new industries in the

German dyeing and finishing machinery builder Thies GmbH & Co KG has launched a new dyeing machine for both woven and knitted fabrics that offers ultra-low dye liquor levels. The new Thies iMaster H2O has been designed to ensure economic and environmentally friendly operation with advanced automation at low liquor levels and offers liquor ratios (textile dyed: water used in dye bath) as low as 1:3.7 for cottons. Thies says the iMaster H2O is based on 40 years'