The flexible systems from ICOMATEX, allows the customers to adapt the production lines to their exact needs. Still keeping all the manufacturing in Europe, ICOMATEX are maintaining a high quality standard of materials used and with the latest in technologies. The company will be presenting their latest technology at ITMA Barcelona.

Konica Minolta IJ Technologies Inc is pleased to announce that the company is unveiling new inkjet textile printers at ITMA 2011, the world’s largest textile machinery exhibition to be held in Barcelona, Spain, from September 22 to 29, 2011. Konica Minolta adds two models, the Nassenger PRO 1000 for significantly high-volume production and the Nassenger PRO 60 for small production, as a new series to its globally-acclaimed Nassenger inkjet textile printers.

Designers of fashion labels, both industrial and fashion textiles and a wide range of other products involving digital printing and/or digital finishing (laser cutting) can now direct and control ALL print and laser cutting finishing specifications at the earliest design stages with Spartanics’ latest laser cutting innovation--Designers’ Turnkey Digital Print-to-Laser Cutting System.

Japanese flat knitting machine manufacturer SHIMA SEIKI announces the release of its SSR™112, a brand new computerized flat knitting machine that is highly productive, energy efficient, and compact.

Toray Industries, Inc. announced (May 16, 2011) that it would start selling MICROMAFIN™, an ultrafine nylon fiber with a delicate feel and superior softness. Toray in April started shipping the product to major apparel manufacturers, and it aims to achieve a sales volume of 25 tons in the first year on the market and 100 tons in three years primarily for making stockings and inner wears.

Uster Technologies Ltd., the leading high technology instrument manufacturer of products for quality measurement and certification for the textile industry, hold symposiums in Bangkok on the 18 May. 160 specialists of the spinning field followed the invitation to learn about a new yarn clearer which boosts the success of spinning mills.

KERMEL is the European leader in the field of aramid fibres used in heat- and flame-resistant protective clothing. On the strength of close to 50 years’ experience on the aramid fibre market, KERMEL is constantly seeking innovation and has now launched KERMEL INSULRIGHT® paper. KERMEL INSULRIGHT® is a thermal and electrical insulating paper based on aramid fibres and resulting from paper-related technology. It is intended for the thermal and electrical insulation market, especially in high-temperature environments – up to about 180° C. The advent of KERMEL INSULRIGHT® represents a major event in the high-temperature insulating paper market where innovation is unusual on account of the high level of technicality and performance required there. In addition, it provides an alternative to the monopolistic offer currently existing in the aramid paper market.

With the C 70, Rieter has succeeded in raising the dependable technology of the 1.5m wide card to a new level. Basis for the improvement in production and quality is the enlarged active carding area in combination with the precisely controllable carding gap. Optimized extraction elements in the pre- and post-carding area lead to a high raw material utilization. This raw material utilization and the lower energy consumption per kilogram of card sliver contribute to the efficient production of superior quality yarn.

Xennia Technology Ltd, the world-leading industrial inkjet solutions provider, introduces today (May 24, 2011) its latest product, XenInx Amethyst, a high quality reactive dye ink for textile printing applications, bringing the benefits of colour saturation and wash fastness to the digital textile printing industry.

KARL MAYER will be showing its latest innovations at ShanghaiTex, innovations which are setting technical and economic standards in warp knitting and warp preparation more than ever. The machines are developed within the company group and are manufactured at KARL MAYER’s production locations worldwide, offering an exceptional price-performance ratio.