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A new ‘mega’ textile park is being planned on a 1000-acre plot in Yadgir, a town in the Indian state of Karnataka.
News1 Sept 2014The US Congress has recently introduced a proposal to establish a list of chemicals that are considered to be persistent, bio-accumulative and toxic (PBTs) with allowable uses. The Administrator of the Environmental
The Teijin Group are showcasing their flying form at this year's China Composites Expo with a thermoplastic laminate developed specially for the new Airbus jetliner.
The Australian wool market remained firm this week after the substantial fall in wool prices in last week’s auctions (August 19 and 20). The Australian Wool Exchange’s (AWEX) Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) closed at 1,002 Australian cents per kilo clean on Thursday, August 28, 1 cent up from last week. In US dollar terms, the EMI lifted by 7 US cents to 937 cents per kilo.
Almost 300 international exhibitors will showcase their products at the next Apparelsourcing Paris exhibition to be held from September 15-18. This is an increase of more than 50% compared to the September 2013 exhibition and a record participation level since the exhibition was first launched in 2011.
News29 Aug 2014In the build up to World Water Week in Sweden, water will increasingly be in the spotlight as major global corporate help to raise the profile of today’s most pressing water challenges. But CottonConnect, an initiative established by C&A, Textile Exchange and Shell Foundation in 2009, is calling for the cotton supply chain to help farmers through training to increase yields and reduce the water footprint in cotton growing regions in the developing world.
Indian silk producers are pressing the government to retain an antidumping duty on silk fabric and re-impose it on silk fibre to protect against the cheaper imports from China. “Antidumping duty is the right move,” said Rakesh K Srivastava, general manager of Madhya Pradesh State Silk Federation. “Indian raw silk producers are in bad shape and without this duty the silk prices would have fallen further.”
News29 Aug 2014The New Fiber Fabric Workshop textile division of the Shenghong Group has become one of the first companies in China to be awarded STeP by Oeko-Tex certification for its environmentally friendly and socially responsible production conditions.
News29 Aug 2014Brazilian denim manufacturer Vicunha will be exhibiting at Denimandjeans in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from October 15-16 2014. This is the second time the company will attend the event, making its first appearance at the show’s debut in March.
India’s newly launched Knitting Technology Mission (KTM) project is primarily trying to diversify the country’s knitwear exports with a shift away from cotton to manmade fibre based knitted goods. The KTM committee chairman Dr A Sakthivel has hailed the project as a “platform to add value across the supply chain”.
