Around 400 cotton farmers and field workers in Punjab and Sindh region have received training on clean cotton picking techniques and sustenance of cotton fibre quality norms pursuant to the training workshops organized by the Ministry of ...
The Commerce, Industry and Textiles Minister Shri Anand Sharma, who is on a two day visit to Mauritius, had a meeting with the Hon. Navinchandra Ramgoolam, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Mauritius today at Port Louis. Shri Sharma ...
Tags: India, Mauritius, Cooperation, Textile Sector
APTMA delegation led by Group Leader APTMA Gohar Ejaz and central Chairman APTMA Ahsan Bashir along with central Vice Chairman APTMA Wisal Monnoo and other office bearers including Mahmood Ihsan, Yasin Siddik and Asif Inam called on ...
Bellegmash 2013, the only international exhibition of Belarus that showcases machinery and equipment exclusively for the light industry, is going to take place in the country’s capital city of Minsk from January 22-25, 2013. By ...
Tags: Bellegmash 2013, Belarus, light industry, textile machinery
ZURICH, Switzerland — December 2012 — The International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) has released the 2012 edition of its biennial International Production Cost Comparison - the only consolidated source for ...
Tags: Textile, International Textile Manufacturers Federation, yarn
World leading industrial thread and textile crafts business Coats plc has launched a new range of anti-microbial sewing threads that inhibits the growth of microbes and bacteria around seams. The treated sewing threads, which have ...
Tags: thread, textile crafts, Coats plc, sewing threads
The latest estimate of cotton crop production for the current season released by the Cotton Crop Assessment committee (CCAC) is not updated, according to Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA). In its latest report, CCAC has pegged ...
Tags: cotton crop production, CCAC, PCGA, cotton
CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — January 7, 2013 — Americhem Inc., a global provider of custom color and additive solutions, has announced the formal acquisition of Infinity Compounding, LLC, a supplier of specialty filled and reinforced ...
India is a major player in the textile industry and, more and more, in the technical textiles. Growth opportunities are considerable if these industries meet the requirements of their domestic markets for higher quality products and stand ...
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The Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) will once again bring the innovative and cutting-edge technologies retailers use every day to the forefront at Retail’s BIG Show. The ARTS Pavilion (booth 2253), a showcase of ...
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With regard to product certification according to OEKO-TEX Standard 100, the OEKO-TEX Association has as usual updated the applicable test criteria and limit values at the beginning of year. After a three-month transitional period the ...
Tags: OEKO TEX, test criteria, limit values, textile
Since launching a new e-commerce platform, American Apparel has continued to deliver an increase in e-commerce sales, with a more than 38 percent increase over the same period last year. December 2012 sales increased more than 59 percent ...
Tags: Apparel, ecommerce, Oracle, Apparel industry
Stirred by a likely boost in demand from countries like the US and Japan, Indonesian textile manufacturers see their exports rising by six percent to US$ 13.4 billion during the current year, Indonesian Textile Association (API) has said. ...
Tags: API, textile exports, textile, textile manufacturers
‘Kashmir Shawls – The TAPI Collection’, a book exploring the rich legacy of shawl weaving techniques in the beautiful Kashmir valley, has been released by ace Indian fashion designer Wendell Rodricks at the leading art and ...
Tags: India, shawl weaving techniques, Kashmir, Indian fashion
World Eco Fibre & Textile (WEFT) Art Exhibition, which aims to explore the vivid contemporary global textile traditions by giving an insight into the latest trends of textile arts, is going to take place from January 18 to March 23, 2013, ...
Tags: WEFT Art Exhibition, textile traditions, textile arts, London