Cotton

Traces of Xinjiang Uygur Cotton Found In US Apparel Imports

Textile Insights September 2, 2023

US Customs has detected links to cotton grown in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in 28 percent of all tests done on apparel and shoes imported from China. Under an act enacted in 2022, the US banned import of garments produced from cotton grown in the Xinjiang Uygur region, over

Fibre

Lenzing Invests €100mn In Indonesian Plant To Produce VSF

Textile Insights September 2, 2023

Austrian manufacturer of cellulose fibres, Lenzing has made significant technical improvements to its PT. South Pacific Viscose, Purwakarta plant. Lenzing has invested more than €100 million since 2021 to convert existing production capacity to specialty viscose. “With the imminent completion of the investment, Lenzing is in a better position to serve the strongly growing

Industry

Indian Textile Sector Will Regain Lost Glory: Piyush Goyal

Textile Insights September 1, 2023

The Indian textile sector will regain its lost glory and Tamil Nadu is going to be the vanguard of the revival. This was informed by Minister for Textiles Piyush Goyal, while speaking at the office of the Southern India Mills’ Association in Coimbatore. “Most developed countries are facing economic challenges. But I feel proud to […]

Machinery

Avery Bridges Physical & Digital Realms Of Garment Sector

Textile Insights September 1, 2023

Visitors to the Avery Dennison stall at Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics 2023 discovered the potential of bridging the physical and digital realms with advanced digital identification solutions for apparel. With the ability to interact directly with connected garments at the Avery Dennison booth, visitors were invited to ‘See Beyond the Physical, the Digital and into

Export

Bangladesh Largest Shipper Of Cotton Apparels To UK

Textile Insights September 1, 2023

Bangladesh has become the largest exporter of apparels made from cotton to the UK in 2021, and is followed by China in second place. Shipments of exports of cotton clothing to UK from the South Asian country reached $1.95 billion in 2021, thereby gaining a market share of 21.9 percent, which is double the market […]

Technical Textile & Nonwoven

Andritz Showing Innovative Nonwoven Solutions At Techtextil India

Textile Insights September 1, 2023

Nonwoven technologies manufacturer Andritz is showing its latest nonwoven production and textile recycling solutions at the upcoming Techtextil India being held in Mumbai in booth K12, Pavilion 2 & 3. The Andritz product portfolio encompasses technologies such as air-through bonding, airlaid, airlay, needlepunch, spunlace, spunbond, wetlaid/Wetlace, converting, textile

Apparel, Fashion, Retail

Fashion Infrastructure Company PDS Bags LACP Platinum Award

Textile Insights August 31, 2023

PDS Limited, a global fashion infrastructure company has bagged the Platinum award at the League of American Communications Professionals (LACP) LLP for its FY2022-23 Annual Report in the ‘LACP 2022 Vision Awards’. This year the theme of the PDS Annual report is ‘Fashion Simplified’ and in its first year of submission, PDS has garnered an […]

Cotton

QCO On Cotton Put Off By A Year By Textiles Ministry

Textile Insights August 31, 2023

“The Textiles Ministry has put off implementing the Quality Control Order (QCO) on cotton bales for a year, following protests and stiff opposition from Vidharbha based cotton ginners. “The implementation of QCO on cotton also called BIS on cotton bales has been extended till August 27, 2024” ToI reported. The Textiles Ministry had approved the […]

Industry

Gokaldas Exports Acquires UAE Based Garment Producer Atraco

Textile Insights August 31, 2023

One of India’s biggest garment exporters, Gokaldas Exports will acquire UAE based apparel manufacturer Atraco, through one of its subsidiaries for US $55 million (around Rs 455 crore). Atraco, which is headquartered in Dubai manages four clothing manufacturing factories in Kenya and one in Ethiopia and manufactures around 40 million garments per year “The $55 […]

Technical Textile & Nonwoven

INDA Announces Four Finalists For RISE Innovation Award

Textile Insights August 31, 2023

The Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry (INDA) announced finalists that will compete for the RISE Innovation Award. RISE, the Research, Innovation & Science for Engineered Fabrics Conference, will take place September 26-27 at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. The finalists include the ESC-8 – The JOA Electronic Size Change Unit. The JOA ESC-8 unit