Sustainability

Trident Commissions World’s Fifth Largest Solar Project

Textile Insights March 23, 2024

Gensol Engineering has commissioned a 10.6 MW rooftop solar project for Trident Ltd. in Madhya Pradesh, which ranks among the top five biggest rooftop solar ventures globally. Gensol Engineering Ltd is a leading player in solar power EPC services and electric mobility and the solar rooftop

Machinery

Jeanologia Calls For Collective Action On World Water Day

Textile Insights March 23, 2024

Fabric to apparel finishing technologies supplier Jeanologia has appealed for real change towards concrete and collective action coinciding with ‘World Water Day’ celebrations. The Spanish company is celebrating World Water Day under the slogan of ‘Water, a shared responsibility’. Since its foundation, Jeanologia has led sustainable change in the textile industry, thanks

Export

Indian Textile & Garment Exports Post 12.49% Growth In Feb

Textile Insights March 22, 2024

Indian exports of textiles and apparels in February 2024 recorded a growth of 12.49 percent over the same month of earlier year. “Of overall exports in February, textile exports rose 19.54 percent, while garment exports grew at 4.88 percent, both over February 2023,” data from Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) showed. Overseas shipments of […]

Fibre

Hyosung Showing Certified Sustainable Materials At Three Fairs

Textile Insights March 22, 2024

Spandex producer Hyosung will introduce a distinctive range of certified sustainable materials at Performance Days Munich, Functional Fabric Fair Portland and Kingpins Amsterdam exhibitions. Hyosung has expanded its offering of Regen bio-based elastane, replacing nearly all the fibre’s raw materials previously made with petroleum-based resources with 100 percent renewable

Machinery

EFI Does LCA Of Nozomi Single-Pass Digital Print Technology

Textile Insights March 22, 2024

Electronics For Imaging (EFI) has completed a life cycle assessment (LCA) of Nozomi single-pass digital print technology in partnership with award-winning sustainability consulting firm Clean Agency. Through this initiative, Clean Agency also developed an LCA tool that EFI customers and their customers can use to analyse their CO2 equivalent (CO2e) emissions as part of

Machinery

Tonello Driving Textile Dyeing Industry Since Fifty Years

Textile Insights March 21, 2024

With its increasingly comprehensive range of technologies, Tonello has been transforming and driving the textile dyeing industry for fifty years. And with DyeMate it takes another leap into the future. DyeMate, Tonello’s latest technology has set a new standard in Indigo dyeing and is acclaimed by a success that is growing day by day. DyeMate […]

Financial Results

2023 Sales Remain Stable At Cellulose Fibre Producer Lenzing

Textile Insights March 20, 2024

Taking persistently low fibre prices into consideration, revenue at Lenzing remained comparatively stable at €2.52 billion in 2023 compared with €2.57 billion in 2022. “Very subdued demand on the one hand and the continued rise in raw material and energy costs on the other, exerted a strongly negative impact on the earnings,” the producer of […]

Fibre

SIMA Hails Exempting BIS Compliance For VSF Imports Under AAS

Textile Insights March 20, 2024

The Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA) welcomed the Indian government’s decision in exempting BIS compliance for VSF imports under the Advance Authorisation Scheme (AAS). In a press release, SIMA Chairman Dr SK Sundararaman appreciated Minister of Textiles Piyush Goyal for permitting the import of BIS QCO mandated VSF under AAS. In addition, Dr SK Sundararaman […]

Fibre

Asahi Kasei & Lenzing Partner On Circular-Driven Textiles

Textile Insights March 20, 2024

Roica by Asahi Kasei, a pioneer in premium stretch yarns, and Tencel by Lenzing AG, a leader in wood-based cellulosic textile fibres have partnered to introduce a new concept of sustainable and circular-driven textiles. After extensive years of R&D Roica and Tencel together are now able to offer contemporary, responsible, quality, and performing fibres for […]

Machinery

Epson Collaborates On Raising Sustainable Fashion Awareness

Textile Insights March 20, 2024

Digital textile printer manufacturer Epson is collaborating with ASEAN Fashion Designers Showcase (AFDS) to raise awareness on sustainable fashion through innovative technology. As part of the collaboration, Epson partnered with seven designers from different ASEAN countries to create a unique collection with a sustainability theme that ties in with the cultural roots of