Cotton Australia has issued its first pre-season comment on prospects for the 2012-13 cotton season. CEO Adam Kay said the new crop year was pregnant with both problems and opportunities, but on balance the positives should outweigh the ...
Tags: Cotton Season, Cotton market, Cotton industry, transgenic cotton
U.S. cotton industry leaders met this week with senior U.S. government officials to discuss the serious financial losses accruing in all industry segments as a result of massive defaults on cotton export contracts. Industry leaders ...
Tags: cotton industry, cotton market, Cotton Council, cotton associations
Omoyele Akerele, founder of the Lagos Fashion and Design Week (LFDW), has said that the Nigerian Government should support the farmers in cotton production. She said this while briefing a press conference held to announce the beginning of ...
Tags: cotton farming, cotton market, cotton industry, cotton production
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. (JPMCB) agreed to pay a $600,000 civil monetary penalty to settle CFTC charges that it exceeded speculative position limits in Cotton No. 2 ...
Tags: Cotton No.2, Cotton market, Cotton industry, Cotton Position
Nigerian Government has doled out N 54 billion to revive cotton farming and production in the country,Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development,Akinwumi Adeshina said while speaking at a cotton stakeholders'workshop in Kaduna,a state in ...
Tags: Nigerian Govt, cotton output
Yarn Expo Autumn attracted a record number of exhibitors this year, lured by the various opportunities offered by the huge market demand from China. The show was held 22 – 24 October 2012 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, ...
Three home textile companies in China joined the COTTON USA licensing program to source U.S.cotton yarn for blankets,resulting in sales of U.S.cotton fiber worth an estimated$590,000.The COTTON USA licenses for Ibena Shanghai,Luolai Home ...
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Cotton Council International (CCI) and Cotton Incorporated, in cooperation with USDA, jointly presented the seventh biennial Sourcing USA Summit in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. The event, held on November 12-16, attracted 400 delegates ...
Tags: CCI, Sourcing USA Summit, cotton, textile, raw cotton fiber
The 71st Plenary Meeting of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), held in the Swiss city of Interlaken, featured a week of intensive discussion and debate on issues facing today's global cotton industry. The over-arching theme ...
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ZURICH, Switzerland — November 6, 2012 — The eyes of the textile universe were focused on Vietnam as the International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) held its traditional Annual Conference from Nov. 4 - 6, 2012. In the ...
Tags: ITMF, Fiber Session, Better Cotton Initiative, Polyester, Cotton
Following on from a successful meeting with over thirty agriculture students of the University of Sydney recently, CEO Adam Kay attended the presentation of fourth year thesis projects at the university. A number of students had conducted ...
Tags: cotton industry, cotton, textile, Coal Seam Gas
There will be no impact on exports of cotton from India or Pakistan, despite the Chinese government deciding not to sell cotton from the huge reserves it has created in the previous cotton year as part of its state cotton reserves, was the ...
Tags: Pakistan Ginners Association, Mahesh Kumar, cotton coarse yarn
Cotton Incorporated, the research and promotion company for cotton has launched a new tool for the textile industry, Cotton University. The free, online resource is positioned as part digital campus, part professional network; and is aimed ...
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The National Cotton Council (NCC) has launched the Emerging Leaders Program, an effort aimed at ensuring the U.S. cotton industry benefits from a continuity of sound leadership. The project, sponsored by a grant to The Cotton Foundation ...
Tags: NCC, Emerging Leaders Program, cotton industry, sound leadership
Monetary issues aren't usually the first thing that come to people's minds when they think about sustainability, but no matter how socially and environmentally friendly an industry is, if companies can't make money, it will collapse. ...
Tags: Monetary issues, sustainability, contract defaults, anticipated sessions