The Fashion Institute of Technology presents – ‘Sustainability in Fashion and Textiles’ a four-day series of lectures, discussions, site visits, and hands-on workshops focusing on sustainability and technology in fashion ...
Tags: Four-Day Seminar, FIT
The revival, reconstruction and modernization of the Angolan textile mill AfricaTextil at Benguela, which began in March 2012, is about 85 percent complete, Koichi Nagashima, the director of studies and projects of the contractor told ...
Tags: textile mill, AfricaTextil
GyroWash, from James Heal, is used to determine colour fastness to washing, dry cleaning and chlorinated water of textile and leather samples and as the test vessels are interchangeable, testing can be carried out to both European (ISO) and ...
Tags: Textiles, Colour Fastness
The central South American country of Paraguay has signed an international cooperation agreement with Brazil and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), with the aim of combating the pest weevil that has been damaging ...
Tags: Cotton, cotton fields, cotton production
Textile and clothing exports from Peru amounted to US$ 272 million during the months of January and February 2014, registering a rise of 7 percent compared to the same months in 2013, as per the data released by the Integrating System for ...
Tags: Textile, Apparel Exports
Pakistan's Ministry of Textile Industry will soon be submitting a summary to the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Federal Cabinet demanding allocation of funds for timely intervention in the cotton market, in order to bring ...
The garment and textile industry of Vietnam is aiming to reach a localization rate of 60 percent by 2015, and thereby reduce dependence on imported inputs, Le Trung Hai, vice president of the Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group ...
Tags: Garment Sector, textile industry
H. Kenneth Greeson of Cotton Incorporated and Adam R. Varley of Vartest Laboratories Inc. were honored by the AATCC Technical Committee on Research (TCR) with the TCR Service Award in recognition of their achievements and service to AATCC. ...
Tags: Varley, fabric finishing, textile chemistry
The Pakistani Government is actively considering imposing duty on yarn import from India, however, the final decision would be taken after consulting with all the stakeholders and keeping in view the national interests, said Minister of ...
Tags: Yarn Imports, Pak Govt
Being held concurrently with Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics – Spring Edition 2014 which brought synergistic effects, the pavilion saw a growth of over 200% in its visitor number from last year, while the top five overseas ...
Eton Systems, the inventor and world’s leading provider of automated production systems for apparel and other sewn products, will unveil its new ETONnote Shop Floor Control (SFC) system in Booth #3027 at the Texprocess Americas trade ...
Tags: apparel, sewn products
Electrical engineering, instrument-making, radio engineering: Domestic appliances (refrigerators, washing and sewing machines, vacuum cleaners, hygienic machines for cooking and kitchen work, electric instrument) Lightning wares, ...
Tags: GOST-R, certification, GOST-R certification
U.S. cotton estimates include lower production and ending stocks compared with last month. Production is reduced 320,000 bales to 12.9 million based on USDA's final Cotton Ginnings report, released March 25. Domestic mill use and exports ...
The Cotton Association of India (CAI) has upwardly revised its cotton production estimate for the ongoing 2013-14 season at 38.125 million bales of 170 kg each, Business Standard reported quoting PTI. In February 2014, the cotton industry ...
News that the high New Zealand dollar has claimed another textile firm has come as a huge shock to those affected, FIRST Union said. Staff at Christchurch Yarns was told yesterday that their firm has been placed in to receivership. 85 ...
Tags: Textile