While Chinese polyester players are emerging as "too big to fail", their closest rivals from India have hit the slowdown wall as they struggle with poor economies of scale in the event of weak demand from major markets like Europe. The ...
Confederation of Indian Textile Industry has requested government to restore export benefits under Focus Market Scheme and Incremental Export Incentivisation Scheme on cotton yarn. Reacting to the Notification No.43 (RE-2013)/2009-2014 ...
Tags: Textile Industry
India’s garment exports are likely to increase to US$ 17 billion this fiscal, compared to US$ 14 billion exports made during 2012-13, according to Clothing Manufacturers’ Association of India (CMAI). Speaking at a ...
Dr. A Sakthivel, Chairman AEPC, while releasing the apparel export data for the month of March 2012-13 stated that, “Export in dollar terms for 12 months of the Financial Year (FY) 2012-13 has declined by 6 per cent over the same ...
Tags: Apparel Exports, Textile
Textiles Ministry of India has called on the domestic cotton yarn producers to maintain the prices of their produce at low levels, so as to avert any negative impact on any of the textile industry segments, particularly the powerloom ...
Tags: Indian Govt, Cotton Yarn
Chairman AEPC, Dr. A Sakthivel, has written to Shri Anand Sharma, the Union Minister for Commerce, Industry & Textiles, on the issue of high cotton yarn prices prevailing in domestic market for export manufacturing. Dr. Sakthivel, in his ...
Tags: Yarn Prices, Yarn, Textiles
The Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA) has written to the Indian Government, including the Prime Minister, Finance Minister, Minister of Textiles and Minister for PMO Office, requesting offloading of cotton parked with the ...
Tags: textile mills, cotton, cotton price
Dr. A Sakthivel reacting on the trade data announced for the month of February 2013 remarked that, Positive exports data from the last two months shows that gradually economy is showing positive sign. To keep the momentum going it is ...
Tags: Dr.A Sakthivel, Indian Apparel, Nontraditional Markets
Introduction There recently has been a noticeable increase in the U.S. public's interest in domestic manufacturing. This was a much-discussed topic in recent political elections for a variety of reasons, including patriotism and concern ...
Tags: Global Cost Trends, U.S.Perspective, Fiber and Yarn Prices
Two diverse opinions have emerged from textile companies in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India as to whether profits margins of the textile industry have been hit in the last few months. While on one hand two major textile producers in ...
India Ratings’ outlook for cotton textiles remains negative to stable for 2013 on account of subdued demand, although margins are expected to benefit from softening raw material prices. The outlook for synthetic textiles remains ...
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Indian textile exporters are concerned about the decline in demand for Indian clothing in international market and they demand incentives from both the Central and state governments to overcome the existing problems faced by the textile ...
Tags: Indian Textile, Indian, Incentives, Govt
Dr.A Sakthivel,Chairman Apparel Export Promotion Council(AEPC)today announced that Tirupur is the first textiles cluster in India to arrive at the Zero Liquid Discharge Technology.Commenting on the development he said,"We are proud to say ...
Tags: AEPC, Zero Liquid Discharge Technology, ZLD, Green Field
Representatives of the powerloom sector in India, especially from the southern state of Tamil Nadu have once again made a plea to bring cotton under the Essential Commodities Act (ECA). To press their demand for inclusion of cotton ...
Tags: cotton, ECA, Textiles, Powerloom, powerloom fabric, raw cotton
Tirupur Exporters Association(TEA)held its 22nd Annual General Meeting(AGM)on September 10,2012.Speaking on the occasion,Dr Sakhtivel-President of TEA discussed the activities and action taken by TEA to address various issues. Excerpts ...
Tags: TEA, AGM, textile industry, Dr Sakhtivel-President