EDITORIAL
EU agrees to review anti-dumping duty on bed linen

TEXTILE BRIEFS

ISLAMABAD OUTLOOK

Textile Museum Sorntal

NEWS & VIEWS

AROUND THE WORLD

CORPORATE NEWS
Brmag, Barco, Datatex, Invista, Lonati,NCS, Trevira, Uster Technologies 20

SEMINAR
Role of cotton and textiles in the economy of Pakistan and challenges ahead

PERSONALIA
CEMATEX, UCMTF, SDL Atlas, ITMA 2007

FEATURES:
Premier Polytronics: HVI and ART - Quality -Testing Instrumnets for the future
Consumer preference for luxury boosts demand for U.S. Pima cotton

FAIRS & EXHIBITIONS
Textile Expo Dubai, Intertextile Beijing & Yarn Expo, TexExpo 2004, Textile Uzbekistan. ATME-I 2004, HRDN Conference 31

DYES & CHEMICALS
Novozymes, Chemi Group, Sodium Alginate in printing and textile industry

PRACTICAL HINTS
Causes and consequences of hairy yarn 35

GENERAL ARTICLES
Influence of contamination detection on yarn quality improvement
by Dr. K. Ramachandralu

Knitwear standardization to stop “air shipment” 39
by Khawaja Humayun Qamar

INTERVIEWS:
“Technological breakthroughs are the key to our success” Taimur Dawood, Chief Operating Officer, Dawchem Industries

IGATEX Pakistan this year was the watershed in the sense that it really exceeded our own expectation - Edward Liu, Managing Director, CEMS

ITM 2004: Turkish textile machinery industry gains competitive edge

Canlar Makina: High temperature fabric dyeing machines 48

Italian Review

Italy: Textile machinery manufacturers face challenges
by Dr. Noor Ahmed Memon

ACIMIT: Time for the Italian textile machinery industry to make some decisions

ACIMIT Foundation awards for Italian textile technology students

Sign of recovery for the Italian textile machinery industry

Biancalani: Three famous finishing machines

Arioli: Quality and excellence in the finishing of fabrics

Loptex: Invisible contamination? Not with Loptex

Optosonic 55
Comez: Laces, ribbons and bands produced on Comez machine 609/B8

Sperotto Rimar: Continuous Dry-Cleaning

ITEMA Group: Somet and Vamatex at ITM 2004

Savio: Orion Automatic winder & FlexiRotors spinning machines

Sultex: New G6500 rapier weaving machine

Salvade: Continuous Steaming Machines

OBEM: Yarn steaming & dyeing systems

MCSGroup: Evolution continues: Bargamo to Korangi Creek

MACHINERY NEWS