Export

January To July Chinese Textile & Apparel Exports Slip 10%

Textile Insights August 25, 2023

In the period between January and July 2023, overseas shipments of Chinese textile and apparel exports totaled $170 billion, which is down 10 percent year on year. In the reporting period, garment exports touched $90.94 billion, a fall of 8.3 percent from the first seven months of 2022, while

Export

Bangladesh’s Value Addition From Apparel Exports Up 11.5% Points

Textile Insights August 25, 2023

The Central Bank of Bangladesh informed that value addition from garment exports increased 11.5 percentage points in fiscal 2023 over fiscal 2022. A report titled ‘Quarterly Report on RMG’ released by Bangladesh Bank said the value addition in the apparel export industry rose from 54.38 percent in fiscal 2022 to 65.97 percent in fiscal 2023. […]

Fibre

Inviya Partners NIFT To Launch Fashion Design Competition

Textile Insights August 25, 2023

Inviya, which is India’s only home-grown spandex brand, has partnered 18 National Institutes of Fashion Technology (NIFTs) across India to launch ‘Inviya Emerging Fashionista (IEF)’ design competition. “The core objective of this design competition is to synergise creativity, innovation, and sustainable fashion, harnessing the dynamic potential of Inviya spandex in fabric

Industry

Gujarat Govt Survey On Textile Units Moving Out Of State

Textile Insights August 24, 2023

The government of Gujarat will undertake a survey to look into the issue of textile manufacturing units moving out of Gujarat to neighbouring states, particularly Maharashtra. After receiving representations from elected representatives, the industries and mines department has been asked to conduct a survey of industries, especially those based in Surat and the districts

Event

CITI Conference ATEXCON Will Be Held From August 31

Textile Insights August 24, 2023

The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) will be organising the 11th edition of Asian Textile Conference (ATEXCON) in Coimbatore from August 31 to September 1, 2023. The theme for this edition is ‘2025 & Beyond Asia’s Global Hub for Textile Manufacturing & Consumers’. Over 400 delegates from global textile & apparel value chain are […]

Policies

India May Announce Incentives For Textile & Garment Sector

Textile Insights August 24, 2023

The government of India may announce fiscal incentives for the ailing textile and garment by this year-end, which has been impacted by decline in export orders. According to media reports, the incentives may be provided under the production linked incentive (PLI) scheme that the government offers, to boost manufacturing in various sectors. Referring to industry […]

Machinery

Swiss Company Crealet Celebrates 20th Anniversary

Textile Insights August 24, 2023

Crealet a supplier of electronic warp feeding systems for both wide and narrow fabric weaving is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Crealet was formed through a management-buy-out from Willy Grob AG and a growing need for warp let-off controls with specific customised solutions was identified by Walter Wirz and Leo Kuster, at that time employed as […]

Apparel, Fashion, Retail

SP Apparels Plans Foray Into Sri Lanka With Asset Light Model

Textile Insights August 24, 2023

Coimbatore based garment exporter SP Apparels Ltd is planning to start operations in Sri Lanka and to do so, is identifying various operational garment factories in the island country. In a BSE filing, the garment maker said, “We are pursuing to set up a company in Sri Lanka which will help us to expand our […]

Cotton

SIMA Contests CAI Cotton Crop Forecast Of 311 Lakh Bales

Textile Insights August 23, 2023

Coimbatore based Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA) has contested the estimates of Cotton Association of India (CAI) which forecast a cotton crop of 311 lakh bales (of 170 kg each) for the 2022-2023 cotton season. The Chairman of SIMA, Ravi Sam has urged the CAI to avoid digressing from the forecast made by the Committee […]

Technical Textile & Nonwoven

Uster Offers Powerful Tools To Produce High Quality Nonwovens

Textile Insights August 23, 2023

Powerful imaging spectroscopes in the Uster contamination sorter can detect and eject any particle that differs even slightly in colour from the main fibre, when producing nonwoven fabrics. According to Uster, contamination in cotton or synthetic fibres can be reliably identified down to a size of one square millimetre, made possible by the Uster Jossi […]