“The International Symposium on Geotechnical Engineering, Ground Improvement, and Geosynthetics for Sustainable Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change including Global Warming was successfully held on 3 to 4 December 2009 at Sofitel Centara Grand Bangkok Hotel.

This event combined the topics in the fields of the Geotechnical Engineering and Geosynthetics Engineering. Details of the topics include: Design and Applications of Geosynthetics, Soil Improvement, New Challenges in Dam Engineering, Slope and Embankment Reinforcements, Control of Riverbank and Coastal Erosions, Landslide Mitigation, Rehabilitation of Climate- Damaging Gases, Effects of Climate Change on Geodisasters, etc.

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Nonwovens Industry Magazine

The size of the domestic technical textiles market is expercted to grow 11% per year, reaching Rs.66,414 crore by 2012, ehich is about Rs.37,115 crore at the moment, Thira Maran, indian textiles Minister, said this at the curtain raiser ceremony of "Technotex-2009, held in New Delhi in August.

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TechFab India is participating in Textile Days India which will be held from 10 - 12 Oct. 2009, at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai. It features two outstanding events –

• Heimtextil India - International trade fair for home textiles & accessories
• Techtextil India - International trade fair for technical textiles & non-wovens