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The 4^th Annual General Meeting of the Indian Technical Textile Association provided evidence of an industry in good health, with excellent potential in domestic and export markets, according to Samuel Joseph.

John McCurry spoke to three of a young but experienced team that is developing Alexium International’s chemistry-based technology to create new products and open opportunities for the rapidly growing company.

A wide-range of initiatives are in place to eliminate waste in nonwovens manufacturing, as Adrian Wilson describes, but what can be done once they are converted into consumer products?

Speaking at a press conference ahead of  this year’s Techtextil and Texprocess trade fairs, Commerzbank analyst, Jürgen Grebe, described how the technical textiles industry fared well during the financial crisis and predicted further global growth.

Glass and other speciality fibres, such as aramids, have been used for many years as reinforcements for composites. Carbon fibre, however, is now very much the focus of the industry, particularly  for automotive end-uses, according to Adrian Wilson.

At Filtrex 2014 in Berlin, Germany (held 1–2 October 2014), Adrian Wilson joined suppliers to the automotive industry and learned about the profound developments that will affect this industry in coming years.

Markets for technical textiles are growing in India, and are ripe for the local industry’s manufacturers to exploit with exports, learned Samuel Joseph at the Techtextil India Symposium (held in Mumbai on 16–17 October 2014).

All around the world counterfeiting is costing industry huge sums of money. Niki Tait reviews some of the technologies currently available to the textile industry to help counteract this threat.

Filter media from leading nonwovens manufacturers, such as Freudenberg and Ahlstrom, are meeting increasingly exacting performance levels in order to comply with the latest demands from end-users, according to Adrian Wilson.

A wealth of experience of the global markets, access to a broad and growing base of technology, and the whole-hearted support of management are the key ingredients for Freudenberg Nonwovens’ strategy to grow in the medical sector, says Nick Butler.