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Webinar on Technical Textiles in Build-Tech & Geo-Tech | 7 February 2026
Date & Time: 7 February 2026, starting at 11:00 AM - 3 PM
Mode: Virtual (Zoom)
Participation: Free and open to all
The webinar aims to create awareness and multidisciplinary engagement across textiles and allied sectors.
When AI Accelerates HR—but Humans Decide
The Digital screen almost felt like a movie scene that morning. Our first AI based Recruitment Dashboard had just gone Live. It showed ten shortlisted candidates with almost perfect accuracy for a Senior Merchandising Role, based on the details written in the Job Description. The numbers looked clean and confident. It promised speed, clarity and a new way of working.
But as I stood there, I smiled quietly. My years in HR have taught me one truth. No matter how accurate a system is, it cannot replace human connection. It cannot understand a person’s fear, ambition or life experiences. Those things come alive only when we speak to people, observe them and try to understand their feelings.
Conference on The Quality Mandate in Manufacturing: Architecture for a ViksitBharat
India’s aspiration to emerge as a globally competitive manufacturing powerhouse under the Viksit Bharat vision demands strong alignment between national policies and international quality and regulatory frameworks. Micro,
Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) play a vital role in India’s manufacturing growth, employment generation, and innovation. Strengthening their capacity to comply with standards and Quality Control Orders (QCOs) is critical for improving product quality, enhancing market access, and building long-term competitiveness.
Gartex Texprocess India Mumbai 2026.
Discover the newest technologies shaping the future of garment manufacturing.
Stay ahead with innovations redefining speed, quality and efficiency in textile technology.
Event Details:
Event Dates: 9–11 April 2026
Event Venue: Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai (India).
Textile Association (India), Mumbai Unit's International Conference: “TEXTILES 2030”
Event: The Textile Association (India), Mumbai Unit is organizing an international conference titled “TEXTILES 2030 – Navigating Geopolitics, Technology Innovations and Global Expectations.”
Date & Venue: 30th January 2026 at Hotel The Lalit, Mumbai.
Objective: To bring together industry leaders, policymakers, innovators, and academicians to explore strategies for sustainable growth, global competitiveness, and strategic self-reliance in the textile sector.
India ITME Society Honours Industry Excellence at India ITME Technical Awards 2025.
India International Textile Machinery Exhibitions Society (India ITME Society) marked a significant milestone for the textile engineering sector with the3rd edition of ITME Technical Awards 2025, at a high-level industry gathering in Mumbai.
Led by Mr. Ketan Sanghvi, Chairman & Member of the Steering Committee of India ITME Society, the event brought together senior industry leaders, policymakers, academicians’ technologists and Ms. Roop Rashi Mahapatra, IA & AS, Chief Executive Officer, Khadi & Village Industries Commission, Government of India, underscoring the growing national focus on innovation, skills and advanced manufacturing in textiles.
BHARAT TEX 2026 – Powering the Next Era of Textiles
Bharat Tex 2026 is India’s premier global textile trade fair, bringing together the finest in textiles, fashion, sustainability, technology, and tradition. Organized by the Bharat Tex Trade Federation (BTTF)—comprising leading Export Promotion Councils and industry associations—and supported by the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, the event will be held from July 14–17, 2026, at the iconic Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.
Envisioned as a landmark global convergence, Bharat Tex 2026 will showcase the complete textile value chain—from fibres, yarns, and advanced fabrics to apparel, home textiles, handicrafts, carpets, and technical textiles.
APPPEXPO 2026 is officially set to redefine boundaries and embark on a new era with the theme "CONNECT·CREATE·CHANGE" Gathering global forces, the exhibition invites everyone to explore the future of advertising and printing. Scheduled to take place from March 4th to 7th, 2026, at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai), the event marks a new starting point where it resonates with national strategies, industry iterations, and enterprise developments.
With the aim of showcasing achievements, promoting exchanges, fostering cooperation, and leading innovation, APPPEXPO is committed to building an internationalized, digitized, and specialized trade exchange platform. It aims to empower both domestic and international cycles and drive high-quality development in the advertising and printing industry.
The past year once again presented us with major challenges: economic uncertainties, rising costs, a noticeable decline in demand in some areas and a general reluctance to invest. Nevertheless, we see signs of stabilisation in our Textile Care, Fabric and Leather Technologies sector: new investments in automation, digitalisation and sustainable technologies show that our member companies are positioning themselves for the future.
Looking ahead to the coming year, we are cautiously optimistic. The technological strength of our member companies and the close exchange within the VDMA TFL form a solid basis for generating new impetus and successfully exploiting opportunities in a challenging environment.
Potential Trade Buyers!
Fabrics & Trims Show 2026 at Gartex Texprocess India - Mumbai brings the entire sourcing ecosystem under one roof—making it the most direct route to garment, fashion, and textile decision-makers.
CITY: Mumbai
Event Dates: 09–11 April 2026
Event Venue: Bombay Exhibition Centre, MumbaiCITY: New Delhi
Event Dates: 06–08 Aug 2026 l Event Venue: Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.
Invitation to India ITME Technical Awards 2025 & Launch of Textile Engineering Study on 19th December 2025.
Event Date: 19th December 2025
Event Venue: at Taj Palace, Mumbai (India)
The program shall commence with the formal unveiling of the Textile Engineering Study: “Indian Textile Machinery Sector Market Analysis and Strategic Assessment: Vision 2047”at 3.00 pm followed by India ITME Technical Awards 2025.
This prestigious event is a platform to celebrate excellence, commitment and outstanding contributions in the Textile & Textile Engineering Industry and your presence will greatly enhance the occasion. The ceremony will bring together Distinguished guests, Technocrats, Industry leaders, Award recipients and Professionals, making it an inspiring and memorable evening.
CAPITAL FORMATION SERIES _ decision algorithms pathways for financial modeling in the manufacturing space - illustrative textile manufacturing as an extrapolation
The backdrop of contracting economies across the emerging and developed markets in the contemporary times is essentially an opportunity that needs to be construed for driving innovations and research driven initiatives to shape in the outcomes in profitability engineering with distressed pricing regimes for accommodating radically lowered aggregate consumption and falling real incomes and savings; the twin pillars of organic growth sans the speculative gaming in handling public wealth and building capital.
Fundamentals of driving capital formation in the manufacturing space to overcome the grip of cascading influences of contraction in the economies:
Machine learning revolutionizes the garment value chain by deploying precise mathematical algorithms to fine-tune every process stage, dramatically improving quality and economic viability.
Key Process Foundations
Laydown properties revolve around fiber length distributions, with shorter and longer segments forming natural bounds, while spatial angles and frictional cohesion dictate resistance to tensile stress. These elements drive carding intensity, slashing process variability in combed cotton via subsequent combing and drawing steps. Card engineering harmonizes fiber clusters through targeted convergence points, influenced by wire choices, operational friction control, and added complexity from dyed fibers, where dye fixation and shear dynamics heighten entropy.
At the Aachen-Dresden-Denkendorf International Textile Conference held in Aachen at the end of November, Peter D. Dornier, Chairman of the Walter Reiners Foundation of the VDMA, honoured five successful young engineers. Promotion and sustainability prizes were awarded in the categories bachelor/project theses and diploma/master theses. Academic theses that develop solutions for resource-saving products and technologies, for example, are eligible for the sustainability awards.
The Walter Reiners Foundation awarded a sustainability prize worth 3,000 euros in the bachelor's category to Jasmin Roos. In her thesis, written at RWTH Aachen University, Ms Roos dealt with the development of sustainable solutions in textile recycling. Her approach was to replace non-recyclable elastane with melt-spun yarns.
GTE Ahemdabad 2025: Post Event report.
Grand Inaugural Ceremony:
The 38th edition of the Garment Technology Expo (GTE-2025) was inaugurated on 07th November 2025 in the presence eminent dignitaries from the Garment Industry, Export Promotion Council of Handicrafts at Helipad Exhibition Centre Gandhinagar Gujarat.
GTE - 2025 was Strongly Supported by Leading Government Bodies, PSUs, Industry Associations.
Guest of honour:
Arpan Shah, Senior Vice President, GGMA l KL Ramesh, Chairman, HCSSC l Dr. Sameer Sood, Director, NIFT l Tushar Kuvadiya, President, Setja
Dr. Rakesh Kumar Sharma, Chairman, IEML
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