The Museum at FIT presents RetroSpective, a new exhibition that examines the relationship between fashion and its own history. Current fashions are changing more quickly than ever, and yet, in the constant quest for the next trend, the past ...
The petrochemicals and chemicals production capacity of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries is expected to rise to 191.2 million tons by 2020, which would be a whopping 50 percent rise over last year’s capacity of 127.8 million ...
Tags: GPCA Optimistic, GCC Petrochem, Apparel
The Union Minister for Commerce, Industry and Textiles, Shri Anand Sharma launched 21 New Textile Parks approved under Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP). These new parks take the total number to 61 parks as 40 Parks were sanctioned ...
Tags: Textile Parks, Textile
Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, announced today it has become a member of the Sustainable Minds Industry Sponsor Program. Sustainable Minds is the global leader in cloud-based Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) software that enables ...
Tags: Textile
In recognition of Earth Day 2013, Haggar Clothing Co., the iconic American menswear company, announced today that over 80 million post-consumer plastic bottles have been upcycled through its eco-friendly apparel line E-CLO? which includes ...
Sweden-based industrial productivity solutions provider Atlas Copco's Industrial Air Division has introduced the 7-37 GA Variable Speed Drive+ (VSD+), an oil-injected rotary screw compressor that features a compact design and improved ...
Tags: Textile
NXP Semiconductors N.V. announced the launch of the UCODE 7 UHF IC, which sets a new industry standard for performance, versatility and speed in RFID supply chain applications. Working with key players in the industry including Avery, ...
ecVision and Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP), an independent, global non-profit organization dedicated to the certification of facilities engaged in lawful, humane and ethical production, announced a new partnership ...
The readymade garment industry of Bangladesh is suffering from a severe image crisis in the international markets because of concerns about labor safety arising from recent fire incidents in two garment factories, which resulted in a ...
Tags: Garment Sector, Garment
Cubbie Station, located in Queensland’s southern inland and Australia’s largest cotton enterprise, has harvested around 220,000-bale cotton crop this season. This is the first harvest since the cotton enterprise was taken ...
Tags: Cubbie Station, Textile
Several producers and manufacturers from Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Italy, Spain, Poland, the UK, Germany and India participated at Latvia’s just concluded 18th edition of ‘Fashion & Textile ...
The China Africa Cotton project for building a cotton ginning unit in Maringué district of Mozambique’s Safola province would soon be launched, District Director of the Economic Activities Department Carlos Coimbra has said. ...
The number of facilities becoming certified to the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) increased 11 percent to surpass the 3000 mark in 2012, growing from 2,714 facilities in 2011 to 3,016 facilities in 2012, according to new data from ...
Tags: Textile Firms, Textile
Ahlstrom made changes to its financial segment reporting as of January 1, 2013 as the former Filtration business area was divided into two separate segments: Advanced Filtration and Transportation Filtration. In addition, a new reporting ...
Tags: Ahlstrom, Filtration Business, Textile
A cooperative in Aklan involved in the piña-weaving industry has been identified by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) as its qualified cooperator/partner in the Shared Service Facilities (SSF) Project under its “Big ...