Sustainability

Fulgar & CHT Collaborate On Sustainable Dyed Yarns

Textile Insights June 24, 2023

Fulgar, an Italian producer of specialty yarns has partnered with textile dyes manufacturer CHT, to offer sustainable dyed yarns by combining resources of both. Fulgar and CHT have combined Fulgar’s circular economy yarns with CHT’s resource saving dyeing technologies to reduce use of both

Tete-A-Tete

Rieter’s Digital Offering Connects Dots In Spinning Mill

Textile Insights June 24, 2023

At ITMA 2023, Rieter launched ESSENTIALoptimize, the latest module of its digital spinning suite ESSENTIAL, an important step towards reaching the vision of a fully digitised spinning mill and which also helps connect dots in a spinning mill. ESSENTIAL is a modular system designed to gradually digitise the spinning mill, consisting of ESSENTIALbasic, ESSENTIALmonitor,

Software

Coats Digital Helps In Digital Transformation Of Pak Mill

Textile Insights June 24, 2023

Sapphire Finishing Mills Ltd, a vertically integrated Pakistan based textile mill has picked Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan as a crucial component of its digital agenda, to connect and consolidate capacity planning information across disparate sources into one highly visual and unified system. According to Coats Digital, FastReactPlan will enable Sapphire to significantly

Policies

Piyush Goyal Mulls ‘Invest India Desk’ In Textile Ministry

Textile Insights June 24, 2023

Indian Textiles Minister Mr Piyush Goyal spoke about setting up a dedicated ‘Invest India Desk’ in the Textiles Ministry to assist and handhold investors, looking to set up or expand their manufacturing base to meet increasing global demand for textiles. Mr Goyal was speaking while chairing an industry interaction on ‘Investment Opportunities in the Textiles

Fibre

Protein-Based Fibres To Boost Circular Economy

Textile Insights June 24, 2023

US based material science company, Bloom Labs has developed a next generation alternative to synthetic and natural textile fibres, which will help for a faster transition towards a circular economy. Bloom Labs is pioneering breakthroughs in material science by harnessing the value of natural waste by-products, a protein-rich and globally abundant raw material. “Using

Apparel, Fashion, Retail

Vaude Launching Wood-Based Polyester Fleece Jacket

Textile Insights June 24, 2023

Vaude, a European environmentally friendly outdoor garment brand will introduce a fleece jacket made from wood-based polyester supplied by UPM Biochemicals. Finland based UPM Biochemicals, is a supplier of sustainable wood-based biochemicals for replacing fossil-based raw materials. According to UPM, the resin used to make polyester contains 30 percent monoethylene glycol

Tete-A-Tete

Simta Unveils Automated Cone Transport & Packaging Solutions At ITMA

Textile Insights June 23, 2023

India based Simta Machinery displayed and unveiled its automated Cone Transport and Cone Packaging Solutions for the first time in an international exhibition at ITMA 2023. “Both, Cone Transport as well as Cone Packaging Solutions have been designed and developed to meet the existing challenges of spinning mills. Both are automated solutions which will help […]

Product Launch & Innovation

Robot Reduces Challenges In Industrial Laundries

Textile Insights June 23, 2023

Sewts GmbH, a German tech startup, designs autonomous robots that handle textiles, like clothing, and anticipate how they behave using 2D and 3D cameras. As is well known, the global textile and garment industry faces several challenges that hinder production, like labour and equipment shortages. “While moving production of garments to Europe, brands will be […]

Cotton

Global Cotton Mill Use To Rebound in 2023/24

Textile Insights June 23, 2023

World cotton mill use is forecast to rebound in cotton year 2023-24 to 117 million bales (1 bale = 480 pounds), up seven percent or 7.9 million bales from the previous cotton season. After two years of decline in mill consumption, attributable in part to relatively high cotton fibre prices and rising yarn and fabric […]

Apparel, Fashion, Retail

US Garment Imports Plummet 22.15% in Jan-April 2024

Textile Insights June 23, 2023

In the first four months of 2023, US garment imports plummeted 22.15 percent year on year. In the first four months of 2022, they stood at US $32.38 billion as against which they fell to $25.21 billion in January-April 2023. According to OTEXA, which published the data, imports from all top import sources like China, […]