Thenzawl, in the state of Mizoram will be named a Handloom City, a government official said. Parliamentary Secretary, Joseph Lalhimpuia announced this recently, when on a visit to the Handloom Complex under Industries Department in ...
Tags: Thenzawl, Handloom City', Textile
Switzerland headquartered - SGS SA has been awarded the China Compulsory Certification (CCC) approved laboratory status. Historically, only government institutions and state-owned enterprises were able to be accredited to this important ...
Mesaieed Petrochemical Holding Company (MPHC) through a statement has clarified that it has no contractual relationship with MSCI Inc. nor does MSCI Inc. coordinate with MPHC on any of it’s matters. MSCI had earlier through a press ...
In comparison to closing of August 8, the December New York cotton futures contract moved up only 14 points over last Friday’s (August 15) settlement and maintained a 200 point trading range on the week. This leaves one thinking, ...
In the wake of deadly gas pipeline explosions that rocked Kaohsiung in the last week of July, the Taiwanese Government is mulling a proposal to set up a special zone for petrochemical companies in Greater Kaohsiung. Premier Jiang Yi-huah ...
Sandra Niessen, a Netherlands-based anthropologist, has produced a film titled ‘Rangsa ni Tonun’, depicting the in-crisis Batak weaving tradition and the urgency to restore weaving tradition of the vibrant cloth. Batak ...
Tags: Batak Weaving, Tradition, Textile
In a three-year period, the small island nation of Mauritius was the highest foreign direct investor in the Indian textile and apparel sector, accounting for a little less than 50 percent of the FDI inflows into the Indian textile sector. ...
Exports of Indian yarn have been steadily growing in the past three years and have now touched 33 percent of overall yarn production in fiscal year 2013-14 from 26 percent in 2011-12. According to yarn production and export figures ...
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between National Textile Corporation (NTC) and Cotton Corporation of India Ltd. (CCI), Mumbai, for setting up a ginning & pressing factory, godown and other required infrastructure at ...
After closing down the Chandrapur Silk Basic Seed Multiplication & Training Centre (BSMTC) unit in Maharashtra, the Central Silk Board 9CSB) established a new BSMTC in Bhandara, also in Maharashtra to ensure continuity of supply of DFLs and ...
Tags: CSB, Maharashtra, Textile
India has been able to achieve, in fact overshoot its targets set in the previous fiscal year 2013-14 for exports from its textile and apparel sector. Albeit, the target for 2013-14 at $34 billion was down US $4 billion from the target ...
On its outlook for the third quarter of 2014, CRAiLAR Technologies Inc. said that although capacity will be constrained by a customary three-week shutdown and equipment installation during the third quarter, it expects third quarter 2014 ...
New York cotton futures traded sideways this week, as December moved up 65 points to close at 64.67 cents. Since trading at a low of 62.02 cents on August 1, trading has turned a lot more two-sided, as new trade buying has emerged and ...
Operating loss figures were splashed in red in the results for the second-quarter of 2014 ending June 2014 at SK Innovation, South Korea’s foremost and world’s leading energy and petrochemical company. In the period April to ...
Tags: Red, SK Innovation, Textile
Global Cotton (HS: 52) Main Exporting Countries/Regions in 2012 Major Exporting Countries / Regions Export Value of 2012 (Thousand USD) In Proportion Year on Year China ...