Machinery

Picanol Hosts Customer Seminars in Ahmedabad & Bhilwara

Textile Insights September 15, 2023

Advanced weaving machines manufacturer Picanol, recently organised customer seminars in Bhilwara and Ahmedabad, earlier this month. The Belgium headquartered company provided deeper insights to the attendees on the innovations that were showcased at their stall at ITMA 2023. At ITMA 2023,

Fibre

Spinnova & Renewcell Develop Textile Waste-Based Fibre

Textile Insights September 15, 2023

Sustainable textile material company, Spinnova has partnered textile recycling company Renewcell, to develop and promote a concept to commercialise and scale textile waste-based fibre. The collaboration is the first of its kind, where textile waste-based fibre can be spun into new fibre without harmful chemicals and the first consumer products will be available around

Apparel, Fashion, Retail

Mack Weldon Unveils Lifetime Odour Free Denim Jeans Line

Textile Insights September 14, 2023

US menswear brand, Mack Weldon released its Silver Denim collection, which is a first-of-its-kind Ionic+ silver infused denim, that will stay odour-free over the lifetime of the jeans, despite several washes. Mack Weldon’s Silver Denim collection was developed in collaboration with Cone Denim and Noble Biomaterials, inventor of the odour-blocking Ionic+ silver technology.

Export

Asian Countries Risk Losing $65bn In Apparel Exports

Textile Insights September 14, 2023

A new study by Cornell University’s Global Labour Institute (GLI) and Schroders, reveals extreme heat and flooding are threatening key apparel production hubs. “Four countries vital for fashion production like Bangladesh, Cambodia, Pakistan and Vietnam risk missing out on $65 billion in export earnings and almost one million new jobs,” the study said. The collaboration

Industry

Bangla Textile Capacity Not Enough To Meet China Plus Orders

Textile Insights September 14, 2023

Bangladesh is the second biggest global garment exporter and shipped apparels totaling US $46.99 billion in previous fiscal and utilised its overall production capacity in doing so. But does it have spare capacity to handle orders diverted from China, under China Plus policy and the US ban on using China’s Xinjiang region cotton in clothing […]

Fabric

Textil Santanderina & Archroma Partner On Eco-friendly Denim

Textile Insights September 14, 2023

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 authentic black denim apparel with industry-leading sustainability and resource

Industry

Chinese Textile Sector Capacity Utilisation Up 1.8% In H1

Textile Insights September 14, 2023

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 […]

Tete-A-Tete

Indo Texnology’s ‘Auto Cone Pack’ System A True Trailblazer

Textile Insights September 13, 2023

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.,

Export

Global US Apparel Imports Dive 22.28% In First Seven Months

Textile Insights September 13, 2023

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 […]

Technical Textile & Nonwoven

Beaulieu Focusing On Sustainable Geotextiles AT ICG Rome

Textile Insights September 13, 2023

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