Sustainability

Fashion For Good Strategy To Enable Regenerative Innovations

Textile Insights January 22, 2024

Fashion for Good has announced its renewed strategy to enable widespread adoption and scale of regenerative fashion innovations. This involves a significant commitment to bolstering the Innovation Platform and deepening efforts in brand uptake, supplier integration, financing and impact

Home Textiles

Ikea Home Textiles Range Made From Recycled Worker Uniforms

Textile Insights January 22, 2024

While rolling out a new co-worker uniform design over the past couple of years, IKEA also collected hundreds of pallets of old co-worker uniforms, which has been turned into a home textiles collection. Växelbruk is a collection of decorative and functional home furnishing items which has been manufactured from recycling old co-worker uniforms. The Växelbruk […]

Industry

Cotton Textile Associations Submit Memorandum To Piyush Goyal

Textile Insights January 22, 2024

The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) and other cotton based textile associations submitted a memorandum to the textiles ministry in a collective effort to address the challenges faced by the Indian cotton textiles and clothing industry. The joint memorandum submitted to Piyush Goyal, Minister of Textiles highlights concerns related to the Cotton Corporation

Export

Chinese Textile & Apparel Exports Post Slight Fall In December

Textile Insights January 20, 2024

Chinese exports of textiles and apparels were down slightly by 0.10 percent year on year and touched US $25.27 billion in December 2023. Of this, textile overseas shipments totaled $11.21 billion, growing by 1.85 percent over same month of its previous year and garment exports were down by 1.60 percent and reached $14.07 billion. In […]

Industry

AMC To Supply Treated Industrial Water To Ahmedabad Mills

Textile Insights January 20, 2024

After two years of negotiations and persuasion, textile mills, which also include standalone dyeing and printing mills in Ahmedabad will finally get treated industrial wastewater at Rs 30 per kilolitre. The Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) and three major industry associations in the city have approved this price for drawing tertiary treated sewage water for […]

Financial Results

Reliance Industries Posts 10.9% Growth In Q3FY’24 Net Profit

Textile Insights January 20, 2024

In the third quarter of fiscal 2023-24, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) reported 10.9 percent year on year growth in net profit to Rs 19,641 crore, boosted by its retail, Jio, oil & gas divisions. The Mukesh Ambani led company posted consolidated revenues in the October to December quarter at Rs 248,160 crore, up 3.2 percent […]

Fabric

Cone To Show Denim Fabrics Made From Circulose At Kingpins

Textile Insights January 20, 2024

Cone Denim will showcase its first denim fabrics collections made with regenerated cellulose fibres at Kingpins New York which will be held January 24-25 in New York. “The pilot launch of these new styles underscores Cone Denim’s ongoing commitment to driving change toward a sustainable future in denim manufacturing,” the denim manufacturer said in a […]

Fibre

Hyosung Showing Expanded Sustainable Solutions At Kingpins

Textile Insights January 19, 2024

Hyosung is introducing its 2024 sustainable textile and sourcing solutions for denim at Kingpins NYC, which will be held from January 24-25 at Basketball City in booth no. 12. The South Korean company is doing so, anticipating the denim industry’s focus on agile global supply chain and sourcing strategies, in addition to more diverse and […]

Technical Textile & Nonwoven

Govt Approves Technical Textile Projects Worth Rs 103 Crores

Textile Insights January 19, 2024

The Indian Textiles Ministry approved 11 project proposals related to technical textiles amounting to around Rs 103 crore. The Union Minister for Textiles Piyush Goyal, cleared the proposals while chairing the 8th Meeting of the Mission Steering Group (MSG) of the National Technical Textiles Mission (NTTM). These project proposals include nine R&D projects, one project

Textile Park

Sircilla Textile Park Units Urge Govt To Settle Unpaid Bills

Textile Insights January 19, 2024

The weaving units of the Sircilla Textile Park located in Telangana which had closed temporarily in the first week of January have appealed the state government to pay their bills of around Rs 250 crores. Textile Insights had earlier reported that weaving companies in the Park had shut down to cut down losses as prices […]