Serge Piolat, co-owner of French producer of technical spun yarns - Schappe, has taken oath as the new president of EURATEX for a two year term and succeeds Alberto Paccanelli. Serge Piolat has extensive international experience in the ...
Tags: clothing manufacturing, Apparel
In the last five months of 2014, Ethiopia imported more than 3,000 tons of cotton to meet the demand of domestic textile industry, according to the Textiles Industry Development Institute (TIDI). Ethiopian Government resorted to ...
Tags: Textile Industry, raw material, Textile
In what may mark an end of high-quality extra long staple cotton, the Egyptian Government has decided to stop paying subsidy of 350 Egyptian pounds per qintar (160 kg) of cotton to producers, from the next agricultural season. Last ...
Tags: Cotton Production, raw materials, Textile
Mike Jeffries led apparel retailer Abercrombie & Fitch, has selected Demandware Inc., an industry-leading provider of enterprise cloud commerce solutions, to expand its digital retail operations across Asia. The retailer has launched ten ...
The International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) anticipates that, despite expected growth in cotton consumption this season, a world production surplus of 1.7 million tons is still expected. This, according to ICAC, will bring 2014/15 ...
Tags: cotton consumption, Textile
Textile trade fair, Colombiatex of the Americas which runs from January 27-29, 2015 in Colombia will see nearly 500 exhibitors showing various textile goods ranging from yarns, fabrics, dyes and chemicals, etc. In the last 17 years, ...
Volkmann which develops, produces and sells twisting and cabling systems for staple fibre yarns, carpet yarns and glass filament yarns will be exhibiting at Domotex Hanover at stand A22 in hall 5. According to Volkmann, visitors can ...
Tags: E3 Technology, energy-saving twisting, cabling machine technology
London-based professor of synthetic biology at University College, Natsai Audrey Chieza, has developed traditional fabric with the dye and pattern created by soil bacteria, in a textile project named ‘Faber Futures’. The ...
‘Make in India’ has become the largest and fastest growing Government initiative ever on digital media, leaving behind all other Government schemes, Ministry of Commerce and Industry has announced. Since its launch just ...
As on 1 January, 2015, a total of 13.958 million bales of cotton arrived at various ginneries in Pakistan, crossing the previous season’s total cotton production of 13.391 million bales. Cotton arrival increased by 10.16 per cent ...
Tags: Cotton Output, Apparel
A Batik Fun Walk was organised in Kuala Lumpur last month, in which 2,700 people of all ages took part in the walk. The yearly event, organised by Yayasan Budi Penyayang Malaysia (Penyayang) is to create more interest in batik and take ...
Tags: bags, shoes, gift wrappers, Textile
Abdu Bulama, minister of science and technology in the Nigerian government spoke about creating a strong partnership between his ministry and Mosanto, a producer of Bt cotton seeds. This will help in reviving the declining cotton industry ...
The President of Haiti, in presence of ministers and senior officials recently inaugurated an assistance program for textile merchants. This program, which first has been extended to 100 merchants, has come on the initiative of ...
Government is adding a new paradigm to the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model, by involving all stakeholders in key decision-making processes, the Indian Prime Minster, Narendra Modi said at a workshop on the Make-in-India program. ...
Williams Partners is expecting ethylene production for sale to begin this month at its Geismar plant as commissioning efforts for the project near completion. “This commissioning effort has been especially challenging after the ...