Triburg is the largest and most respected buying house in India, taking up business with total commitment and capability for over 30 years. The company, whose list of customers include big names like Liz Claiborne, Anntaylor, American Eagle, Nautica, Polo, PVH, Mothershood, Sean John & Armani Exchange, felt the need of the apparel export industry to set up a state-of-the-art learning institute that could produce professionals instilling both knowledge and skill needed by merchants to face global competition.

Surface printing has always been an extremely popular option for garment ornamentation, the main reason for which is the creativity it allows with the designs. Every year the complexity of designs in demand is increasing

Keeping with its own tradition of bringing out novel and innovative products Turkish finishing machine manufacturer Malkan launched pneumatic vertical jacket sleeve pucker press UPP40DI. Its special design eliminates puckering problem at the jacket sleeve which happens due to seam opening process. The fabric culmination over sleeve surface after attaching sleeve inner seams is also reduced drastically. All this is ensured due to even pressure distribution by vertical pressing process.

Santoni Group, an established name in knitting machine technology around the world has taken a step forward by introducing the first seamless warp knitting machine SDW8. “So far, all the seamless machines installed all over the world are of weft knitting system. As part of our determination to remain leaders in seamless we have been inevitably drawn into looking at the possibilities of making seamless garments also in the other Warp or Rascel knitting system,” says Henry Alphandery from the Santoni group.

Hashima has time and again redefining its own standard for accuracy and precision. Hashima HN-770G a can detect a metal fragment as small as 0.8 mm in diameter. It has a magnetic induction system which provides an active field all around the width of the belt. Sensors are placed in such a way that even metal fragments lying in face to the belt are detected. A sensitivity setting from 10 to 101 enable the perfect sensitivity for any type of garments.

Whether it’s ‘boom time’, a ‘recession’ or just a ‘downturn’, the IMB, Cologne will always remain the ideal place for technology providers and seekers from around the world to meet, see and discuss the latest innovations in garment technology.

Lectra will display new Versions of Modaris V6R1, Kaledo, VectorTechTex FX Extended, Vector Pilot (V1R2) and Mosaïc, its latest innovations, at IMB 2009, Hall 8.1, Booth A/010 – B/019.

Juki has come up with innovative DDL-9000A series of its single needle lockstitch machines. Among the various useful features of the machine is its feed efficiency. The amount of vertical movement under the presser bar is reduced.

Krishna Lamicoat has over the years aquired an international platform to cater to the specialized needs of the paper and film requirements in the cutting room in automated apparel manufacture

Keeping up with its mission to provide productive automated technologies Dürkopp Adler has come up with highly automated and innovative machines which are planned to be displayed in the IMB’2009, Cologne, Germany on as big a booth as in IMB 2006.