Spain based Textil Santanderina, a manufacturer of sustainable fabrics launched its Advanced Black denim fabric collection in partnership with Archroma, a producer of specialty chemicals. The Advanced Black collection uses Archroma’s new Diresul Evolution Black LIQ dyestuff to produce on-trend
Data from the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics informs that textile industry capacity utilisation rate touched 76.2 percent in the first six months of the current year, a year on year drop of 1.8 percent. However, the chemical fibre industry capacity utilisation rate stood higher at 83.2 percent in the first half of 2023, down […]
Indo Texnology, a forerunner in conceiving and delivering innovative solutions for textile mills, has become a pioneer in automatic cone packing and cone inspection using camera vision – artificial intelligence. The Auto Cone Pack System takes care of cone weighing, cone inspection, polythene wrapping for individual cones, and packing into the required formats i.e.,
Overall US clothing imports dived sharply by 22.28 percent to US $45.74 billion in the first seven months of the current year, as against $58.85 billion in the comparable period of the earlier year. Imports of garments from its largest source China totaled $9.12 billion between January and July 2023, compared to $12.80 billion in […]
Beaulieu International Group will focus on geotextile products with sustainability benefits which support civil engineering projects at the 12th ICG Rome, which will be held from September 18-21, 2023. For manufacturers of nonwoven geotextiles, the company offers PP fibres with 25 percent carbon footprint reduction, compared to the European standard PP fibres, generating
Shanghai based Santoni Shanghai Knitting Machinery, which has been founded and wholly owned by Italy’s Lonati family, has acquired Terrot GmbH, a German manufacturer of circular knitting machines. “This acquisition is in tune with Santoni Shanghai’s long-term vision to build an ecosystem that aims to reshape and consolidate the circular knitting industry,” the
Archroma was awarded the ‘Leading Partner’ award at Welspun’s Partner Summit 2023, which is held annually in Anjar, Gujarat, and which is Welspun India’s major production base. The summit brought together like-minded leaders to discuss trending topics focused on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and sustainability and where, Welspun India also
In the period between January and August 2023, Cambodian garment exports dropped 18.98 percent compared to the same period in 2022, to $5.49 billion. Of overall apparel shipments, exports of knitted garments totaled $3.63 billion in the first eight months of 2023, down 23.2 percent, compared to $4.5 billion earned for the same period last […]
A visit to a cotton farm and learning about the labour shortage issue impacting farmers, four university students were encouraged to develop a rover robot which will help farmers in sowing, weeding, pesticide spraying, and finally harvesting. Four students from the Institute of Aeronautical Engineering in Hyderabad have designed a prototype named CultivOx by Agrodroid,
International textiles sourcing exhibition, Intex Sri Lanka 2023, which was held last month saw attendance of 4,780 visitors, who ranged from manufacturers and designers to retailers. “These visitors came from 10 countries, which underscored the crucial role, Intex Sri Lanka plays in facilitating cross-border partnerships to grow the industry,” Worldex India, the organiser