Texas Tech University researchers recently discovered that low-grade cotton made into an absorbent nonwoven mat can collect up to 50 times its own weight in oil. The results strengthen the use of cotton as a natural sorbent for oil, said ...
Tags: Textile
Global 2014/15 cotton mill use is forecast at 112.3 million bales, 2 percent above the previous season. Mill use in China is expected to rebound in 2014/15 to 37.0 million bales—up from an estimated 35.5 million bales this season and ...
Tags: Cotton, World cotton trade
Monomoy Capital Partners, a New York private equity fund focused on value investing and business improvement, and Kingsmoor LLC, an investment company with extensive operational and apparel experience, announced that they have teamed up to ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories
A study conducted by The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council, (Texprocil) has revealed that India's cotton yarns exports are meeting their targets barring the seasonal fluctuations generally witnessed every April and inspite of high ...
Tags: Cotton Yarn, Cotton Yarn Exports
The cotton marketing season, which usually begins on July 30, is likely to begin earlier by a month on June 30, according to the Mozambique Cotton Institute (IAM), Noticias reported. It is generally observed that international cotton ...
Tags: Cotton Marketing, cotton prices
The exports of cotton yarn from India in fiscal year 2013-14 are likely to be around 1.35 billion kg worth US$ 4.7 billion, according to a study by the Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council of India (Texprocil), reports Business Standard ...
Tags: Cotton Yarn, Cotton Yarn Exports
The arrival of cotton increased by 3.69 percent to 13.391 million bales at ginneries in Pakistan as on May 1, 2014, compared to the arrival of 12.915 million bales during the corresponding period in previous season, according to the ...
Tags: Pakistani Ginneries, Cotton
India-based ShriVallabh Pittie (SVP) Group is setting up a US$ 550 million spinning mill in Kombolcha town, located in the Debub Wollo Zone of Ethiopia’s Amhara Region, Ethiopian News Agency reported. The textile mill, to come up ...
Tags: Spinning Mill, textile mill
The Government of Uzbekistan has invited Bangladeshi entrepreneurs to invest in the textile sector in Uzbekistan. During a meeting with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka, the visiting Uzbek Minister for Foreign Economic ...
Tags: Textile, woven garments, garments
Brazil’s Mato Grosso state is likely to end cotton year 2013-14 with a 58.2 percent rise in inventory compared to the last season, according to a press release issued by the Mato Grosso Institute of Agricultural Economics (IMEA). ...
Tags: corn, raw cotton
Cotton growers in Burkina Faso would get 225 CFA francs for one kilogram of produce for the 2014-15 season, compared to the previous season’s price of 245 CFA francs per kilogram, the Interprofessional Cotton Association of Burkina ...
Tags: Cotton, Cotton growers
India Ratings & Research (Ind-Ra) has revised the outlook on the cotton sector to negative to stable for FY15 from negative. The agency has also revised the rating Outlook on cotton companies to Stable for FY15 from Negative. This is ...
Tags: Cotton Sector, Ind-Ra
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
The new Chinese cotton policy has the potential to derail Indian raw cotton exports to the biggest cotton consuming country in the world. As per the new policy to be made applicable from April 1, the Chinese government has lowered cotton ...
Tags: Cotton Exports, Cotton Policy
The exports of textiles and apparel from Pakistan increased by 8.28 percent year-on-year in the first eight months of the financial year 2013-14 that began on July 1, according to the data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics ...
Tags: Textile Exports, apparel, cotton