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Smart textiles global

market size to reach

US$ 5.55 billion by 2025

The global market size of smart textiles is Rapidly expanding fashion and entertainment
expected to reach US$ 5.55 billion by 2025 as well as sports and fitness sector across the
with a CAGR of 30.4pc. Roman Haefeli
globe is expected to increase awareness of the
health benefits of smart textiles as well as
Information of the wearer can be contribute to the market growth in coming years.
communicated by smart textiles such as Roman Haefeli
physiological parameters including location, Miniature electronics will also fuel the market
heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature growth. Industry participants are increasingly
which can then be used in application areas new Head of Sales
focusing on reducing form factors to facilitate
such as sports, fitness and healthcare. integration, to make sensors compatible with
Moreover, the product is also used by those fabric and ensure optimum comfort and wear
suffering from late-stage dementia as it can ability. Since smart textiles are used in fields,
help refresh their sense of self. Therefore, of SSM AG
such as healthcare and sports, it has become
wide usage of internet and growth in wireless increasingly important to ensure that the user
technology are expected to have a positive is not hindered through the use of
impact on the market growth. electronic fabric.
Increasing customer demands require increasing sales
service responsibilities. To strengthen the worldwide
team and to achieve complete customer satisfaction,
SSM Schärer Schweiter Mettler AG is pleased to
announce the appointment of Roman Haefeli as Head of
Sales.
WWF to help cotton growers to
As of January 1st 2019 Roman Haefeli has started as
Head of Sales and member of the management board of
SSM Horgen. Mr. Haefeli holds a degree in mechanical
increase production
engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH) and many years of experience in
research, development, operations and sales. SSM
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Zahid Mehmood,
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will help the south welcomes Roman Haefeli and wishes him a good start
CCRI Director said, “The prime objective of the
Punjab cotton growers to improve production and and a lot of success and fulfillment in his new function.
increase per acre yield under a Memorandum of consultation was making cotton crop more
Understanding (MoU) signed between the Rieter is the world’s leading supplier of systems for
environment-friendly, reducing expenses and
organization and the Punjab Agriculture short-staple fiber spinning. Based in Winterthur
helping the growers for better cultivation and
Department. (Switzerland), the company develops and manufactures
growth of cotton.”
machinery, systems and components used to convert
Dr Zahid Mehmood further highlighted that the
The WWF would hold workshops with the growers natural and manmade fibers and their blends into yarns.
challenges being faced by cotton crop and said,
under the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) programme. SSM Textile Machinery, based in Horgen (Switzerland), is
“The use of most modern ecology was inevitable
In this connection, the WWF held its first a subsidiary of the Rieter Group. SSM is the world’s
for better production of the crop. The CCRI held a
consultation meeting in collaboration with the leading supplier of precision winding machines in the
Multan Central Cotton Research Institute which fields of dyeing, weaving and sewing thread preparation
joint consultation session with the WWF to provide
a platform to all cotton growers.”
was attended by a large number of growers. and enjoys success in individual segments of filament
yarn production.
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