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Young engineers

present high-tech

solutions

With 62 exhibiting VDMA member companies, German Technology will be strongly represented at Techtextil
Frankfurt. The VDMA uses the trade fair for technical textiles once again as an opportunity to honour
successful young engineers. At the trade fair, five students will be awarded prizes of the Walter
Reiners-Stiftung (Foundation) in the categories dissertation, master and seminar paper for their outstanding
and creative achievements.

With their works, which deal with lightweight construction applications among other things, the young ladies
and gentlemen demonstrate that textile machinery is a real high-tech industry with a future. The award
ceremony of the Walter Reiners-Stiftung (Foundation) will take place on 11 May, from 5 to 6 pm at the VDMA
booth (3.0/D25). Trade fair visitors and exhibitors are very welcome to participate.

The VDMA booth is also the first contact point for visitors who would like to get an overview of the exhibiting Travel in comfort with
VDMA member companies. For example, the list of exhibitors VDMA members @ Techtextil 2017 as well as
Buyer’s Guide Textile Machinery are available at the information booth.
the cotton, the world trusts

ArioPrint-16® Cotton Council International (CCI), in collaboration and Northeast Asia. “The hospitality players world-
with 16 COTTON USA licensees, showcased quality
wide are tailoring their offerings to provide hotel
guests with familiar comforts by outfitting guest
U.S. cotton home textiles and hotel collections at the
the second unit Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles trade show. rooms with textile product, such as bedding,
curtains, towels, bathrobes, etc., made of natural
The COTTON USA booth, themed “COTTON USA:
fibers. Due to the continued strong demand for
to Pakistan Travel in Comfort with the Cotton the World Trusts,” cotton-rich fabrics in this segment and to capture
had four distinct areas designed to simulate a cozy
this market, COTTON USA is introducing our hotel
hotel: a reception area, a lobby sitting area, coffee collection to potential partners and licensees in the
Arioli has recently announced the sale of the second ArioPrint-16® digital textile printer to his customer in shop and guest room, all outfitted with COTTON hospitality industry.”
Pakistan. The customer has proven the quality of the Digital Printer built from Arioli that has already printed USA licensees’ textile products.
150.000 linear meters of Cotton with Reactive Dyes in these first months since installed. Hotel partners can benefit by specifying and
Imagine, a COTTON USA home furnishing licensee, highlighting their use of U.S. cotton-rich products
Fully satisfied Customer is also announcing a project to invest with Arioli for several more machines that will not only displayed its curtain and home furnishing and their guests can enjoy the safe and comfortable
cover their needed production for a long-term relationship. fabrics, but also provided furniture with U.S. feeling of COTTON USA when staying at a hotel.
cotton-rich bedding products provided by Pac-Fung
Arioli's advantages of the ArioPrint-16® over competitors gives customers a fully 2.0 meters printing width, International Ltd. The hotel room area also featured CCI’s unique promotions and licensing programs
processing woven and knits with flexible resolutions, the structured Digital Printer loaded with 16 Kyocera U.S. cotton hotel bedding and home textile products cover the whole U.S. cotton textile supply chain,
printing Heads and the Dryer with two sections in one pass avoids any marking of prints on smaller dryers from Jiangsu Sidefu, Natural Home, Hua Fang and ranging from cotton fiber to retailers’ shelves. CCI
and can run up to high speeds printing from 300x300dpi at 1000sqm/h to the maximum resolution of Loftex. links customers of home textile products with
1200x1200dpi with modality MULTIPASS® where ArioPrint-16® gives customer the best bi-directional printing renowned global COTTON USA-licensed suppliers
process today on the market. “With the rapid rise of China’s economy and tourism and brands to establish long-term partnerships for
in the past decade, the hospitality industry in China effective procurement throughout the cotton supply
During the next Fespa Digital (8-12 May 2017 in Hamburg, Germany) Arioli Group with MHM will present the and Asia has experienced meteoric growth,” chain.
new IQ-Digital, following their success from the last SGIA when shown as preview. explained Karin Malmstrom, CCI director of China