Indian synthetic fibre and yarn producers have urged the Union Ministry of Finance to abolish excise duty of 12 per cent levied on the industry and bring it at par with the cotton fibre and yarn sector. “This will help the growth of ...
Tags: cotton fibre, yarn sector, Textile
A joint memorandum has been submitted to the Union Commerce Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman by various Indian textile associations, seeking additional two years time to fulfill export obligation under the export promotion capital goods (EPCG) ...
Tags: textile associations, Textile
Exports from the Vietnamese apparel sector are expected to touch US $24.5 billion and thereby surpass the set target by nearly $1 billion. “The garment and textile sector continues to top Vietnamese exports, mainly due to right ...
The textile industry of the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu aspires to climb up the textile value chain and realise its true potential for which it is depending upon the central government, said an official of a trade body. D Prabhu, ...
The new government, under Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has laid emphasis on an economic vision based on increasing production, export and generating employment. Particular attention will be given to generate productive employment ...
Italy’s textile machinery producers are excited about the upcoming edition of ITMA, which returns to Italy after a 20 year hiatus and runs from November 12-19, 2015. Over 380 Italian exhibitors are slated to be present in Milan, a ...
Tags: textile machinery, textile
Stating that the new power tariff rate announced last week by Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) would seriously affect the competitiveness of the textile mills in Tamil Nadu across the value chain, the Southern India ...
Tags: tariff hike, power factor, Textile
Textiles has the lion’s share in India’s exports from labour intensive sectors, according to data from the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S), Kolkata, under the Ministry of Industry and ...
Tags: Labour Intensive, textile sector
Key priorities for further development of the Indian textile industry were identified at a three-day Uster ‘Quality University’ event held in Goa recently. Delegates at the summit explored the challenges and opportunities ...
Tags: textile industry, Textile
India is set for some spectacular growth in polyester production over the next 6 years, going up from just over 5 million tonnes to well over 10 million tonnes by 2020, according to Philips Gibbs, the group MD for PCI Xylenes and ...
Tags: raw material, polyester production, Textilec
The Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers (ACIMIT) participated in the recently held business mission ‘Italy to Vietnam 2014’, to meet Vietnamese textile manufacturers and promote Italian textile machineries and ...
The producer of INOTEK, a biomimetic fibre, and technical director at MMT Textiles, a research and development company, Veronika Kapsali, has been named the Innovator of the Year at the ITMA Future Materials Awards ceremony held on 26 ...
Tags: Biomimetic Fibre, Bags Innovator, Textile
Serbia and Macedonia should work jointly to promote the European textile sector, speakers concluded during meetings organized by the Agency for Foreign Investments and Export Promotion of the Republic of Macedonia, together with the Serbian ...
Sustainability, one of the major topics among current trends in the furnishings and textile sector will apply in equal measure for the world's largest trade fair for home and contract textiles, Heimtextil. Heimtextil, which runs from ...
Tags: Home Textiles, Textile
Next February as part of the ‘2015 See You in Valencia’ initiative the Valencia Fair will host a business meeting on the subject of the contract channel. This meeting will gather fifty international prescribers that will make ...
Tags: B2B, business meeting, Furniture