Cotton

Chinese Cotton Production Decreases 6.1% In 2023

Textile Insights December 25, 2023

Chinese total cotton output stood at 5.61 million tons in 2023, down 362,000 tons or 6.1 percent compared with 2022, according to data of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Cotton cultivated acreage amounted to 41.82 million acres in the ongoing year, a decline of 7.1 percent or 3.18

Export

Rising MMF Fabric Imports Impacting Indian Textile Sector

Textile Insights December 25, 2023

Rising imports of manmade fibre (MMF) fabrics and at the same time higher domestic prices of these fibres has made the Indian textile industry uncompetitive. Various textile hubs of the country in Surat, Erode, Ludhiana, etc are fighting an insurmountable challenge of large scale dumping of MMF fabrics and are said to be operating at […]

Industry

Tirupur Dyers Share Concerns With Minister Darshana Jardosh

Textile Insights December 25, 2023

Office bearers of the Dyers Association of Tirupur met Darshana Jardosh, Minister of State for Textiles and submitted a letter sharing their concerns. The delegation from the Dyers Association of Tirupur included President P Gandhirajan, Treasurer BA Madeswaran, CEO BM Boopathi and Coordinator JV Sureshkumar. The delegation requested the Minister to implement a new

Industry

Textile City Being Set Up In Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvallur District

Textile Insights December 25, 2023

A Textile City will be set up on around 64 acres in Tamil Nadu’s Thirumazhisai in Tiruvallur district, which will be a one-stop destination for domestic and international buyers to purchase finished textile products. The Textile City project will be implemented by the Handlooms, Handicrafts and Textiles department of Tamil Nadu, whose Chief Minister MK […]

Apparel, Fashion, Retail

Spanish Fashion Brand Mango Celebrates 40th Anniversary

Textile Insights December 23, 2023

Spanish fashion brand Mango is celebrating 40 years since its story began with the opening of its first store in Barcelona. The brand also expects to close the 2023 financial year with record sales and with a turnover in excess of €3 billion as against the earlier record sales of €2.68 billion in 2022. During […]

Industry

Coats Digital Launches AI Assistant Using Microsoft’s Azure

Textile Insights December 23, 2023

Coats Digital is propelling its technology solutions into the AI era with the launch of a new AI Assistant to improve customer service and open up innovative, new opportunities across the fashion supply chain. The new AI service using Microsoft’s Azure AI solutions, Coats Digital’s developers have quickly introduced advanced capabilities for robust natural language […]

Machinery

Short Staple Spindles Installed Globally Grows 0.88% In 2022

Textile Insights December 23, 2023

Short-staple spindles installed globally have grown from 225 million units in 2021 to 227 million units in 2022, up a marginal 0.88 percent Statistics released by the International Textile Manufacturer Federation (ITMF) also informed that the number of installed open-end rotors increased higher at 8.3 million in 2021 to 9.5 million in 2022 According to […]

Apparel, Fashion, Retail

Pantone 13-1023 Peach Fuzz Is The Colour Of The Year 2024

Textile Insights December 23, 2023

X-Rite and Pantone have launched the spectral colour value for Pantone Colour of the Year 2024, the Pantone 13-1023 Peach Fuzz, which is available in PantoneLIVE, a cloud-based digital colour standard ecosystem. “As a result, consumer product companies can easily incorporate Pantone 13-1023 Peach Fuzz into their digital workflows to accelerate the design to manufacturing

Industry

Bangladesh & Uzbekistan Explore Cooperation In Textile Sector

Textile Insights December 23, 2023

Bangladesh and Uzbekistan are exploring cooperation between the textile and garment industries of the two countries and take advantage of the strengths of both countries An Uzbek textile delegation recently visited Bangladesh and visited various garment factories to explore cooperation and learn more about garment manufacturing. Then a top level official team from

Industry

China’s Cotton Textile Prosperity Index Hikes Slightly In Nov

Textile Insights December 23, 2023

In November, China’s cotton textile prosperity index witnessed a slight rise of 0.3 percent over October and stood at 49 percent. The seven sub-indexes that make up the China Cotton Textile Prosperity Index are all below the critical point of 50. Within the sub-indexes the raw material procurement index, product sales index, product inventory index […]