The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) is actively procuring raw cotton from farmers at minimum support price (MSP) and it has procured approximately 13 lakh bales by November-end at various centres in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and ...
Tags: Raw Cotton, Cotton
Welspun India Limited (WIL), part of the US$ 3 billion Welspun Group, has unveiled its new spinning facility at Anjar in Gujarat, which is India’s largest spinning facility under one roof. The new, world-class facility was ...
Tags: Spinning Facility, yarn, Textile
Textile Industrialist Viral Desai, director of Zenitex Pvt Ltd, a Surat, India-based textile process and dyeing company, has been conferred with Honorary Doctorate by the UK-based World Records University at a convocation held in ...
Tags: Honorary Doctorate, dyeing company, textile
The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) has planned to operate 343 procurement centres in 92 districts spread across 11 cotton growing states in the country, during the ongoing cotton season that began on October 1, 2014, Minister of State of ...
BSL Suiting, a subsidiary of the US$ 900 million LNJ Bhilwara Group, organised a two-day wholesale dealers’ conference in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, last month. At the meet, BSL Suiting displayed its complete range of fabric, including ...
Tags: BSL Suiting, dealers'conference, Textile
All India seed cotton arrivals have picked up to approximately 100,000 bales per day and the quality is good in all the states, informs the fortnightly report from the Indian Cotton Federation. At the moment and there is not much of ...
Tags: Seed Cotton, cotton crop, Textile
Huntsman Corporation has inaugurated its new India corporate office, in Andheri, Mumbai. The 220,000 square feet, seven story building will initially house 300 Huntsman associates, including more than 100 technical staff spread across three ...
India’s minister of state (independent charge) of textiles Santosh Kumar Gangwar has directed the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) to make online payments to farmers’ directly into their bank accounts as envisaged under the ...
Tags: online payments, Cotton Corporation, Apparel
India’s Amul dairy brand maker Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) is set to invest in two other Indian states such as West Bengal and Punjab. GCMMF is expected to invest INR200 crore to set up a unit in West ...
Tags: Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, Amul dairy brand
India-based freeze dried food firm Saraf Foods has announced plans to expand its production capacity by 50%, in a move to cater to the increasing consumer demand for ready-to-eat foods. As part of the expansion, the company plans to ...
Tags: freeze dried food firm, ready-to-eat foods, Agriculture
Led by a marginal decline in production in Gujarat, a cotton trade body has estimated India’s 2014-15 season cotton output at 405.50 bales (170 kg each) as against 407.25 bales in 2013-14 season. A news agency reported that as per ...
Tags: cotton trade body, cotton output, Textile
Net profit for the second fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2014, slipped 30.2% year-on-year at value-added yarns and home textile producer - Sutlej Textiles and Industries Ltd (STIL). In the second quarter of fiscal 2014-15, profit ...
Tags: Sutlej Textiles and Industries Ltd, topline performance, Textile
The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) has been asked by the Indian Government to procure more cotton at minimum support price (MSP) by opening new procurement centres. At a meeting held in New Delhi, Union Agriculture Minister Radha ...
India-based extrusion machine manufacturer Rajoo Engineers will be working with Netherlands-based Meaf Machines to produce sheet and thermoforming equipment. Meaf will provide product design, technical know-how and critical components to ...
Tags: thermoforming equipment, blown film lines, Agriculture
Supported by the commissioning of two lines, the VSF business at Grasim Industries, achieved record sales volume of 100,927 tons, up 8% from a year ago quarter in the second fiscal quarter ending September 2014. “Concerted market ...