The two storms which hit Greece in September are expected to have destroyed 60-70 percent of the cotton grown in the Thessaly region, which is a major hub for cotton production. Thessaly located in central Greece accounts for 81,000 hectares of the 250,000 hectares under cotton cultivation in
A Chinese pilot farm project to grow sustainable cotton is expected to produce 170,000 tons of sustainable cotton this year. The pilot project is being run by the Cotton China Sustainable Development Program (CCSD) in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. “The project to grow sustainable cotton was first started in 2021 and till date […]
Iranian exports of textiles and clothing increased 6 percent year on year to US $368 million in the first six months of the Iranian calendar year ending September 22, 2023. Iran exported textiles and garments totaling to $345 million in the comparable period of the pervious Iranian calendar year. This was informed by Mohsen Gorji, […]
Supplier of innovative polymer solutions Americhem has announced a global campaign called ‘Americhem, a Sustainability Enabler’. This campaign aims to increase awareness of sustainability and help key business stakeholders achieve their sustainability goals. Americhem is focusing its sustainability efforts in three areas, Process, Product, and People and in the past few
The Society of Dyers and Colorists (SDC) is hosting a global conference on sustainability and circularity within the global textile colouration space between June 18 and 19, 2024. The event which is open to members and non-members of the SDC aims to explore four key themes across two days. Professor Calvin Wong, Professor in Fashion […]
India is very close to becoming a net importer of cotton and it’s high time for the Indian textile industry to have higher per hectare yield of lint for which we are in need of immediate seed upgradation, says Aditya Agrawal, Director, Shivkrupa Cotspin Pvt. Ltd. What motivated the recent expansion into cotton yarn manufacturing […]
The domestic technical textiles sector is all set to commence its next phase of growth trajectory going forward as the industry is finding itself in a much more conducive situation in the last few years. Though the government has been trying to promote this sector for some time now, it is only in the last […]
Exporters from the Pakistani textile industry are seeking subsides and incentives to boost the prospects of the exports industry, which is reeling under a slowdown. These incentives include preferential cost-based electricity tariff, deferral of principal and interest payments on loans and restoration of a no-sales tax payment scheme. The industry also proposed priority
Indian Ministry of Textiles has extended implementation date for the Geo Textiles Quality Control Order (QCO) 2022. The QCO which was originally scheduled to come into effect on October 7, 2023, will now be enforced from January 1, 2024. The decision to extend the implementation date was made in consideration of requests made by firms […]
To celebrate World Cotton Day, Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) launched the ‘Bale Identification and Traceability System’ (BITS) using Blockchain Technology at a conference on cotton. CCI has launched BITS to ensure that the quality, variety, origin, and other vital parameters of cotton are transparent to both Indian and international buyers. Each cotton bale now […]





















