Dyes & Chemicals

SDC To Host Conference On Sustainability & Circularity

Textile Insights October 10, 2023

The Society of Dyers and Colorists (SDC) is hosting a global conference on sustainability and circularity within the global textile colouration space between June 18 and 19, 2024. The event which is open to members and non-members of the SDC aims to explore four key themes across two days.

Industry

Pakistan Textile Sector Seeks Subsidies To Boost Exports

Textile Insights October 9, 2023

Exporters from the Pakistani textile industry are seeking subsides and incentives to boost the prospects of the exports industry, which is reeling under a slowdown. These incentives include preferential cost-based electricity tariff, deferral of principal and interest payments on loans and restoration of a no-sales tax payment scheme. The industry also proposed priority

Technical Textile & Nonwoven

Implementation Date Of QCO On Geotextiles Extended Till Jan 1

Textile Insights October 9, 2023

Indian Ministry of Textiles has extended implementation date for the Geo Textiles Quality Control Order (QCO) 2022. The QCO which was originally scheduled to come into effect on October 7, 2023, will now be enforced from January 1, 2024. The decision to extend the implementation date was made in consideration of requests made by firms […]

Cotton

CCI Unveils Cotton Bale Identification & Traceability System

Textile Insights October 9, 2023

To celebrate World Cotton Day, Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) launched the ‘Bale Identification and Traceability System’ (BITS) using Blockchain Technology at a conference on cotton. CCI has launched BITS to ensure that the quality, variety, origin, and other vital parameters of cotton are transparent to both Indian and international buyers. Each cotton bale now […]

Export

Bangladesh Garment Exports Rise 13% in Q1FY’24

Textile Insights October 9, 2023

Bangladesh garment exports rose 13.07 percent year on year in the first fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2023 and totaled to US $11.61 billion. Of overall apparel exports between July and September, knitwear shipments reached $6.76 billion, a rise of 19.70 percent year-over-year, while woven garment exports grew slower at $4.85 billion, up 4.97 percent. […]

Technical Textile & Nonwoven

INDA Names Three Finalists For Hygienix Innovation Award

Textile Insights October 7, 2023

INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry has announced names of three finalists that will compete for the Hygienix Innovation Award. These three companies, Glatfelter, Mundeo, and Sequel will present their new absorbent hygiene products at Hygienix, which will be held from November 13-16, 2023 in New Orleans, Louisiana. GlatPure from Glatfelter is a […]

Machinery

Azonprinter Premieres Maintenance-Free 24″ DTF Printer

Textile Insights October 7, 2023

Croatia based Azonprinter has pushed the boundaries of DTF printer technology and brought it to a new level, which has an automatic maintenance system. In the latest series of Azon’s DTF printers, the Primo + Neon X printer has in addition to CMYK + White, four neon colors namely, neon yellow, neon magenta, neon orange […]

Machinery

Orthopac RXVMC-20 Removes Textile Webs Distortions Faster

Textile Insights October 7, 2023

Mahlo recently introduced the new Orthopac RXVMC-20 automatic straightening system for forward control of knitwear which can remove distortions in textile webs even faster and more precisely. Two individually controlled and driven straightening modules with a total of four bow and three skew rollers ensure that the correction of bow and skew distortions takes place […]

Machinery

Karl Mayer Cements Relationship With 75 Years Old Customer

Textile Insights October 7, 2023

Karl Mayer dispatched the first knitting machine to Georg+Otto Friedrich, a leading producer of warp-knitted digital printing fabrics and technical textiles in September 1948. As a token of its solidarity, Georg+Otto Friedrich has donated an old treasure, the seventh machine built by Karl Mayer to Karl Mayer’s Academy. In the past 75 years, Georg+Otto Friedrich […]

Industry

Textile Value Chain Running On Minimum Order Levels: ITMF

Textile Insights October 7, 2023

The entire textile value chain is running on minimum levels of orders and as long as brands and retailers do not increase orders, the entire textile value chain will continue to struggle. This was the analysis of the International Textile Machinery Federation’s (ITMF) Global Textile Industry Survey (GTIS) conducted in the middle of September 2023. […]