Manufacture New York (MNY), the American fashion design and production incubator for independent designers, is set to build a new fashion manufacturing and design hub to support up and coming designers and apparel makers. The industrial ...
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The interactive puppet is inspired by the advances in wearable tech to help girls and boys get to grip with core curriculum subjects. A new collection of puppet/tech toy hybrids has taken to Kickstarter with the aim of solving the gender ...
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The Government of India is promoting the growth of technical textiles in the country and is implementing four schemes for the purpose, Minister of State for Textiles (Independent Charge) Santosh Kumar Gangwar informed Lok Sabha, the lower ...
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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 ...
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Welspun India Limited (WIL), part of the US$ 3 billion Welspun Group, has unveiled its new spinning facility at Anjar in Gujarat, which is India’s largest spinning facility under one roof. The new, world-class facility was ...
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Fulgar SpA, Italian yarn manufacturers, has been named Company of the Month for November 2014, by the International Association for Research and Testing in the Field of Textile Ecology (OEKO-TEX), which provides testing and certification ...
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The Jury has now selected the exhibitors in Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair’s hall for young and up-and-coming designers in 2015. They include Frej Wichmann, M-S-D-S Studio, Malin Bobeck and Pettersen & Hein. 33 designers or design ...
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The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) has planned to operate 343 procurement centres in 92 districts spread across 11 cotton growing states in the country, during the ongoing cotton season that began on October 1, 2014, Minister of State of ...
The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) has requested the Government to reduce the excise duty on all man-made fibres and filaments, as also their raw materials from the current 12 per cent to 6 per cent. In a pre-Budget ...
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The 18th edition of Taipei Innovative Textile Application Show (TITAS 2014), which was held from October 15 to 17, 2014 at the Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall, Taiwan, ended on a successful note. Organized by the Taiwan ...
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Textiles Committee, a statutory body under the administrative control of the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, has been conferred as the Best Accessible Website at the National Awards for the Empowerment of Persons with ...
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ISPO Textrends Forum, a platform for innovative textiles and components for sportswear manufacturing, has seen participation from companies in 2015, rising by 65 per cent from the prior year. 240 selected products will be presented at the ...
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
The Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, has accepted the report of the sub-committee constituted to examine the issue of change of definition of handloom, Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry ...
Disrupt Unlimited, the Brandix led start-up seed accelerator for the textiles, apparel and accessories sector, has partnered with Microsoft’s BizSpark initiative. Microsoft BizSpark’s global program helps software start-ups ...
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