At the end of July 2013, the Swabian knitted fabrics manufacturer, Mattes & Ammann GmbH & Co. KG, became the first textile company in Germany and the EU economic area to be awarded the OEKO-TEX Sustainable Textile Production (STeP) ...
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Some people think that China is not only a country, but also a big factory. Especially in textile production, China has the image of being a land of extremely large companies with tens of thousands of employees in every factory. For the ...
Tags: Textile
The International OEKO-TEX Association’s Dr. Sam Moore, who represents OEKO-TEX in North America, will present a webinar introducing the new OEKO-TEX STeP certification system for sustainable textile production facilities on Tuesday, ...
Tags: Step Certification, OEKO-TEX
The ICAC Standing Committee approved the Final Agenda for the 72nd Plenary Meeting of the Committee since 1939 at its 525th Meeting in Cary, North Carolina on August 22, 2013. The 72nd Plenary Meeting will be held in Cartagena, Colombia, ...
Tags: Cotton Value Chain, Textile
The textile sector is one of the oldest industries on the planet and it is growing rapidly to meet the needs of people of all ages. Presently, the biggest challenge faced by the textile industry is sustainability and some industry ...
Tags: Sustainability, Textile Makers
In a recent initiative, the International Organization "The Ecological and Toxicological Association of Dyes and Organic Pigments Manufacturers (ETAD)" issued a fresh list of impurities for dyes used in textile applications. This important ...
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The Government of India would soon unveil a modified Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS) with a provision to increase the interest subsidy on power looms from the present 5 percent to 6 percent, Textiles Minister K Sambasiva Rao has ...
Tags: Textile Industry
Mexico's increasing competitiveness is expected to be a boon to those companies, including American companies that design the original product and their contract manufacturers – the companies that manufacture the American ...
Tags: Textile Production, Textile
The Swiss yarn manufacturer Hermann Bühler AG is the very first company worldwide to receive a certificate for sustainable textile production in line with the certification system “Sustainable Textile Production (STeP) by ...
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The Chinese textile industry as a whole needs to upgrade completely, said participants at the China Cotton and Textile Industry Development Forum held in New York. China has witnessed rapid economic development over the last 30 years, ...
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The national pavilions of Germany and Belgium would be participating for the first time in the 8th Central Asian International Textile Machinery Exhibition (CAITME) 2013. CAITME 2013 and the 10th anniversary Central Asian ...
Tags: Textile, Textile Machinery
Thanks to very low labor costs, Bangladesh succeeded in the past decade in becoming the second-largest supplier to international markets after China. In 2012, the country exported apparel worth US$20 billion. About 50 percent is exported to ...
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The output of the Spanish textile industry registered a 2.7 percent year-on-year growth in May 2013, as per the latest Industrial Production Index (IPI) data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE). This is the second ...
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Despite margin compression resulting from feedstock price increases over the first quarter, Great American Group, analysts note that the overall textiles industry continues to make progress after bottoming out in 2009. “Many ...
As the Rupp Report already informed some weeks ago, this year's annual conference of the International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) will take place in Bregenz, Austria, Sept. 8-10, 2013 (See " The Rupp Report: Vorarlberg In The ...
Tags: ITMF Summit, Rupp Report, Textile