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Cotton association lowers India’s 2020-21 crop estimate.
In its February estimate of the cotton crop for the season 2020-21 beginning from October 1, 2020, the Cotton Association of India (CAI) has reduced the country’s crop estimate for the current season by 1.50 lakh bales to 358.50 lakh bales of 170 kg each (i.e. 380.91 lakh running bales of 160 kg...Read more -
MMF apparels: US $ 20 billion opportunity for India!
Leading apparel buying houses Triburg and Impulse believe that Indian manmade fibre (MMF) apparel exporters can aspire to grab US $ 20 billion business in global MMF apparel trade even as the domestic apparel industry works at resolving its limitations. Sanjay Shukla of Triburg believes, “MMF gl...Read more -
Intertextile Apparel Fabrics to serve as textile trading platform
The Intertextile Apparel Fabrics-Spring Edition 2021 will be held from March 17-19, 2021, at the National Exhibition and Convention Centre, alongside Yarn Expo Spring, Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles, CHIC, and PH Value. The show attracts a line-up of global companies, to help them seize bus...Read more -
AP Chambers requests for an Integrated Mega Textile Park for the State
The chambers highlighted the strengths of the state in the textile sector including availability of number of spinning mills, raw material The Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation (APCCIF) requested an integrated mega textile park for the state. AP Chambers president K.V.S...Read more -
New lab to test cotton and yarn in southern India
The South India Textile Research Association (SITRA) will set up a laboratory on the Coimbatore premises of the South India Spinners’ Association (SISPA) to test cotton and yarn. N Murugesan, SISPA president of the Spinners’ Association, said its members needed testing facilities and had submitt...Read more -
Tiruchi’s industry looking for mini textile park!
In Tamil Nadu’s Tiruchi District, Tiny and Small-Scale Industries Association (TIDITSSIA) is trying to establish a mini textile park as a hub for apparel manufacturing units in Manapparai area. The association is also looking at support for leading exporters of Tirupur. As per the industry estim...Read more -
BRFL Textiles’ fabric production up 50% post funding
BRFL Textiles Private Limited (BTPL), India’s largest single-roof state-of-the-art fabric processing facility, has increased production at its Tarapur plant from 100,000 metres per day to now 150,000 metres per day as a consequence of improved capacity utilisation within two months of raising pr...Read more -
DBS unveils pilot programme in India on organic cotton.
DBS Bank has collaborated with Inditex, a fashion retailer which owns brands such as Zara, Pull&Bear and Bershka, to launch an organic cotton procurement financing pilot programme in India with an aim to scale its organic cotton industry. While India is the largest producer of cotton, organi...Read more -
Nigeria textile sector can compete with China
Signature founder, Michael Eyeh, has called for a revamping of the indigenous infrastructure in Nigeria in order to make actors in the fashion and creative sector more competitive and instrument of economic development. He said with the right impetus that Nigerian textile sector can compete with...Read more -
Textile and apparel export: Tamil Nadu on top and Punjab at bottom
Tamil Nadu is on top compared to all other Indian states as far as textile and apparel export is concerned. The state had export numbers of US $ 6,766 million in 2019-20. As per the data released by the Ministry of Textiles (MoT), export of Gujarat was US $ 4,901 million, while that of Haryana a...Read more -
EU should speed up the recovery of the textile sector
Brussels, 23 February 2021 – The textile and clothing industry was hardly hit by the pandemic in 2020. It is time for the European Commission and Member States to set the conditions for future competitiveness and resilience. The T&C industry is a pillar of Europe with its savoir-faire and ex...Read more -
Calls for removal of import duties on yarns
JOHANNESBURG – TFG, the owner of Foschini and Sportscene, wants government to speed up the planned removal of import duties on yarns, which are cotton threads used to make fabric. TFG manufactures more than 25 percent of its clothing locally. The Trade and Industry Department wants to increase t...Read more