Machinery

Picanol Produces 400,000th Weaving Machine At Leper Facility

Textile Insights October 3, 2023

Belgium based advanced weaving machines manufacturer Picanol has achieved a milestone of producing the 400,000th weaving machine at its facility in Ieper, Belgium. According to Picanol, the very first Picanol weaving machine was produced in 1936, based on a design by Spanish engineer Jaimé

Tete-A-Tete

Sun, Primary Supplier Of Yarn Guides In Replacement Market

Textile Insights October 2, 2023

Kindly provide a history about your company like when it was started, who started, etc. Sun Yarnguides Industries is an Indian company that manufactures textile machinery parts. The company is based in Ahmedabad and was founded in 2016 to manufacture sheet metal and wire products for the spinning and weaving industry. Please share details about […]

Export

Bangla Clothing Exports Up 13.07% In Q1FY’24

Textile Insights October 2, 2023

Bangladesh apparel exports increased to $11.61 billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2023-24, up 13.07 percent over $10.27 billion recorded in the comparable quarter of fiscal 2022-23. Data from the Export Promotion Bureau revealed that of overall garment exports, knitwear exports expanded 19.70 percent year on year to $6.76 billion in the July to […]

Apparel, Fashion, Retail

US restricts imports from three more Chinese textile firms

Textile Insights October 2, 2023

In a bid to eliminate fashion goods made with forced Uyghur labour, the US has restricted imports from three more Chinese companies, bringing the total number of banned entities to 27. The names of Xinjiang Tianmian Foundation Textile, Xinjiang Tianshan Wool Textile and Xinjiang Zhongtai Group were added to the Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act […]

Cotton

Better Cotton Launches New Strategic Partnership In Spain

Textile Insights October 2, 2023

Better Cotton has launched a new strategic partnership in Spain with Espalgodon and the regional government of Andalucia to kickstart the production of Better Cotton-equivalent cotton in Spain. Better Cotton has worked with the regional government of Andalucia to align its Integrated Production System (IPS) with the Better Cotton Standard System (BCSS). In practice, this

Economy

Sales Of Chinese Spinning Machines Stable Between Jan & June

Textile Insights September 30, 2023

In the first six months of the current year, sales of Chinese spinning and related machinery were stable due to good demand from domestic spinning mills. According to data released by the China Textile Machinery Association (CTMA) in the first half of 2023, around 3,100 carding machines were sold, a rise of 5.1 percent year […]

Corporates

Kitex Setting Up World’s Longest Integrated Textile Project

Textile Insights September 30, 2023

Kitex Group, the second largest global producer of babywear laid the foundation stone of its second fully integrated fibre-to-apparel production hub in Telangana, which will be the world’s longest integrated factory. The foundation stone for the second cluster is located in Seetharampur, Rangareddy and upon completion; it will stretch across 1.2 kilometers, set to

Technical Textile & Nonwoven

Ministry Launches QCO On Medical & Agro Textiles Products

Textile Insights September 30, 2023

Ministry of Textiles has launched Quality Control Orders (QCOs) for six products related to medical textiles and 20 products related to agro-textiles, which will come into force from April 1, 2024. Medical textiles QCO encompass a range of products include sanitary napkins, dental bib/napkins, disposable baby diaper, reusable sanitary pad/ sanitary napkin/ period panties

Apparel, Fashion, Retail

Garment Manufacturers Revenue May Rise 8-10% In FY’24

Textile Insights September 30, 2023

Revenue of Indian garment manufacturers is expected to increase by 8-10 percent in current fiscal on the back of healthy domestic demand and revival in exports. According to a CRISIL Ratings report, volume growth will be higher at 6-8 percent in the present fiscal, as against 3-5 percent in the previous fiscal. The report also […]

Export

Pak Textile Exports Slip 9.49% Between July & Aug

Textile Insights September 30, 2023

Pakistani textile exports slipped 9.49 percent year on year in the months between July and August 2023 to touch $2.76 billion as against $3.05 billion during the same months of earlier year. Textile exports for the month of August alone reached $1.45 billion, up 10.95 percent over July 2023, when it stood at $1.31 billion, […]