The predominantly cotton based textile industry in India faced a crisis during 2008-09 due to global recession and again a grave crisis during 2010-11 owing to high volatility in cotton prices and certain external factors. The Government ...
Tags: textile industry, textile, Apparel
The ITMA ASIA + CITME combined show continues to be the unrivalled marketing platform for textile machinery manufacturers seeking to tap the China market. The fourth edition will be held from 16 to 20 June 2014 at the Shanghai New ...
Demand for LED lighting is growing rapidly thanks to significant expansion in manufacturing capacity, falling prices, environmental concerns, and government incentives. According to DisplaySearch, this new opportunity for LED lighting ...
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MOVCD vendors US-based Veeco Instruments and Germany-based Aixtron SE have lowered quotes in the China market from about US$2 million to about US$1.4 million for a single-wafer MOCVD set and by 30-40% for a multi-wafer model mainly because ...
Tags: LED makers, LED production, LED
The Chinese textile industry is increasingly paying attention to issues such as energy savings and low environmental impact for production processes – in response to which the Italian textile machinery sector will be presenting its ...
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With the theme “Dream, Believe, Achieve”, the third edition of InFashion kicked off on 20th March 2013 where the three day event brought together the entire textile, apparel and fashion community to exhibit, buy, and source and ...
Tags: fashion extravaganza, apparel, textile
Manz AG of Reutlingen, Germany, which supplies integrated production lines for crystalline silicon solar cells and thin-film solar modules (as well as lines flat-panel displays), says it is demonstrating the standards of its CIGSfab ...
Tags: PV modules, solar cells, solar modules
The 11th Five Year Plan growth targets for textiles sector were (a) cloth production to grow at the rate of 12 percent in volume terms; (b) clothing and apparel to grow at the rate of 16 percent in volume terms and 21 percent in value ...
Tags: fabric output, fabric, textiles sector
Chairman AEPC, Dr. A Sakthive, in the proposal presented, to Shri Anand Sharma, the Union Minister for Commerce, Industry & Textiles, has made submission for increasing the garment exports to US $16 billion in 2013-14. The meeting was ...
Tags: AEPC, garment exports, garment
Spending on LED fab manufacturing equipment will decline 9.2% in 2013 as the industry faces weak long-term demand and consolidates manufacturing capacity. According to the SEMI LED/Opto Fab Forecast, spending on LED fab manufacturing ...
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The Ministry of Textiles is deeply concerned to learn that the recent unprecedented snowfall in Changthang region this winter has left twenty two thousand goats dead. The Ministry of Textiles, had earmarked funds last year for feed ...
Tags: Ministry of Textiles, Ladakh Pashmina Sector, Textiles
China is forging a new identity for itself beyond that of a manufacturing haven. With wage rates rising rapidly, other Southeast Asian countries are stepping up to ll the shoes of "world factory," while China actively shapes its ...
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Indian textile and apparel manufacturers are expecting boost for the sector as Union Budget 2013-14 has opened new opportunities for investments in the domestic as well as international market with reduced excise duty on branded garments, ...
The Indian textile industry, employing over 100 million people directly and indirectly has been looking for various schemes and assistance in the Union Budget 2013-14 to regain its global competitiveness which faced the worst ever crisis in ...
Tags: textile industry, Union Budget, SIMA
The Union Budget 2013-14 presented by the India’s Finance Minister P Chidambaram has brought cheer for the textile and garment industry as the Central Government has accepted their long standing demand for removal of excise duty on ...
Tags: India, Textile Sector, Garments