Sustainability

Madwell First US Denim Company To Become Bluesign Partner

Textile Insights August 18, 2023

Madewell is the first US denim company to become a Bluesign System Partner brand and this partnership reflects Madewell‘s commitment to reducing its environmental impact. Madewell’s collaboration with Bluesign to produce denim more sustainably started in October 2022; while the first denim

Cotton

CmiA Verified Cotton Output Jumps By 80,000 Tons In 2022

Textile Insights August 18, 2023

Around 240,000 tons of Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) cotton was processed in 2022, or 80,000 tons more over the previous year. According to Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF), 890 million textile products were also brought to market under the CmiA label, by various CmiA licensing brand partners in 2022. This helped generate licensing revenues […]

Apparel, Fashion, Retail

True Fit Partners Shopify For Fashion Genome

Textile Insights August 17, 2023

True Fit, an AI platform that decodes apparel size and fit for consumers has partnered with Shopify Inc., a commerce platform that enables merchants to start, grow and manage a business. “The strategic partnership will bring the quality, reliability, and economic benefits for which True Fit is known with its enterprise customers to merchants of […]

Software

9% Boost In ApparelTech Productivity With FastReactPlan

Textile Insights August 17, 2023

South Korean outdoor garment manufacturer, ApparelTech Co has realised an annual productivity improvement of 9 percent and increased its on-time delivery performance by a further 7 percent after adopting Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan solution. “The solution has enabled the company to connect and consolidate its planning and scheduling information across disparate sources

Financial Results

Q1FY’24 Net Profit At Garware Technical Fibres Surges 52%

Textile Insights August 17, 2023

Net profit in the first fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2023 at Garware Technical Fibres surged 52 percent to Rs 43 crore as against Rs 28.2o crore in the corresponding period of fiscal 2023. Net sales of the ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 9001:2015 certified company increased 7 percent year on year to Rs 325.7 crore […]

Industry

Kenya Seeks To Rebuild Textile & Garment Sector

Textile Insights August 17, 2023

Attendees at a Kenyan textile seminar were told that the government is keen to rebuild the cotton textile and garment sector and thereby take advantage of the AGOA act, which ensures quota free and duty free access to US markets. This was conveyed by Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Investments, Trade and Industry Moses Kuria who […]

Event

ITME Africa & Middle East 2023 Kicks-Off From Nov 30

Textile Insights August 16, 2023

India ITME Society will organise the ‘ITME Africa & Middle East 2023’ exhibition in Nairobi, Kenya from November 30 to December 2, 2023, in which exhibitors from 18 countries will converge. The exhibition will see participation from textile machinery manufacturers from India, Turkey, Taiwan, Italy, Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Austria, Zambia, Sri Lanka, Germany, Rwanda,

Tete-A-Tete

WTT Only Supplier Of Single Skid RO With 97% Water Recovery

Textile Insights August 16, 2023

Tirupur headquartered WTT International, a pioneer in manufacturing Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) technology, has evolved as the only player, to provide highest water recovery of up to 97 percent, with a single skid Reverse Osmosis (RO), as against its competitors offering multiple skids of RO. Due to the single skid RO, WTT customers are benefited […]

Export

Bangladesh Close To Becoming Biggest Cotton Apparel Exporter

Textile Insights August 16, 2023

Bangladesh is close to surpassing China as the world’s largest cotton apparel exporter amid stronger demand prospects, which are expected to drive cotton consumption higher. This was informed in the latest United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) report, which also forecast Bangladesh cotton consumption to grow by 800,000 bales to 8.0 million bales in 2023-24. […]

Cotton

CAI Estimates 2022-23 Indian Cotton Crop At 311.18 Lakh Bales

Textile Insights August 16, 2023

In its latest report, the Cotton Association of India (CAI) has retained its cotton crop estimate for the 2022-23 season at 311.18 lakh bales of 170 kgs each. The total cotton supply for the months of October 2022 to July 2023 is estimated at 332.30 lakh bales, which consists of arrivals of 296.80 lakh bales, […]