SoftWear Automation, a developer of robotic sewing technologies for the apparel industry said it completed a $3 million Series A round of financing from CTW Venture Partners. Alongside, KP Reddy, partner at CTW Venture has also been ...
Tags: Sewing Technologies, Softwear Bags, Apparel
The Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, SK Panda recently visited Gurgaon’s leading fashion institute, the Institute of Apparel Management (IAM). During his visit, Panda actively interacted with the faculty and ...
Tags: Fashion School, institute, Apparel
Advanced textiles producer and NYSE-listed – Albany International has announced that the Company’s Board of Directors has approved a quarterly dividend for holders of the Company’s common shares in the amount of $0.16 per ...
Tags: currency revaluation, Textile
Ningbo PEACEBIRD, a Chinese fast-fashion company, has chosen the fashion PLM solution by Lectra, one of the leading integrated technology solutions providers for fabrics and technical textile companies, based in France, to support its ...
Tags: Fashion Firm, technical textile, Textile
The BRC-Nielsen Shop Price Index for November 2014 shows that overall shop prices reported deflation for the nineteenth consecutive month, unchanged at 1.9% in November. Non-food deflation slowed marginally to 2.9% in November from 3.1% in ...
Tags: Non-food prices, Furniture
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
Anjali Exports, an India-based company engaged in manufacturing and exporting exclusive range of home furnishings and made ups made from cotton, organic cotton and other blend fabrics, is going to display new trends in home textiles at the ...
Tags: Anjali Exports, Textile Trends
Researchers from Canada’s Université Laval’s faculty of science and engineering and center for optics, photonics, and lasers have developed smart textiles that can monitor and transmit the wearers’ biomedical ...
Home furnishings company Ikea, the first major single brand retailer to get FDI approval from the Indian Government, has announced a new ‘Make More in India’ initiative. The new initiative is aimed at inviting potential ...
Sintex Industries is expecting the phase-I of its textile plant near Pipavav port in Gujarat to become operational by March next year. This was disclosed by Amit Patel, managing director of Sintex. Patel was speaking to mediapersons ...
Food manufacturing was one of four manufacturing sub-sectors to expand in November 2014, according to the Australian Industry Group Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (Australian PMI). Food manufacturing expansion Among the ...
Tags: Dairy Products, beverages, tobacco
The technical textiles sector in India is likely to grow at 20 per cent per annum till 2016-17, Union Minister for Textiles Santosh Kumar Gangwar has said. Speaking at the launch of curtain-raiser of TECHNOTEX 2015 in Mumbai, ...
Tags: Technical Textiles, Textiles
Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament, too passed the Textile Undertakings (Nationalisation) Laws (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2014, a week after the Bill was passed by the lower house—the Lok Sabha. The ...
Tags: Textile Mills, Textile
India-based Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and China-based Shandong Ruyi Science and Technology Group Co Ltd (Ruyi) (through its wholly owned subsidiary), have signed definitive agreements for setting up a joint venture (JV) in textiles, ...
Tags: joint venture, Textile