Event

ATEXCON 2025: Driving Asia’s Leadership In The Global Textile Industry

Textile Insights March 27, 2025

The 12th edition of the Asian Textile Conference (ATEXCON 2025), organized by the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI), successfully concluded at the Courtyard by Marriott, Mumbai. With Gherzi as the official knowledge partner, the event brought together industry leaders,

Tete-A-Tete

‘GTTES 2025 Aims To Create Valuable Networking Opportunities And Drive Industry Growth’

Textile Insights February 10, 2025

GTTES 2025 will highlight key trends such as sustainability, automation, innovation and efficiency-driven solutions, says Ketan Sanghvi in an exclusive tete-a-tete with Henry Dsouza, Associate Editor, Textile Insights  Given the industry’s gradual recovery and shifting global trade dynamics, how will the Global Textile Technology & Engineering Show 2025 (GTTES 2025)

Industry

Union Minister Supports ITF’s Textile And Apparel Growth Plans

July 11, 2024

The Indian Texpreneurs Federation (ITF) recently met with Union Textile Minister, Giriraj Singh, to present a comprehensive report on the ‘Opportunities and Challenges for the Indian Textile and Apparel Sector.’ The meeting focused on strategies to harness the China Plus One opportunity in apparel exports and enhance India’s monthly apparel export rate

Textile Park

Burhanpur Textile Park Witnesses Waiting List For Plots

Textile Insights May 30, 2024

The proposed textile park in Sukhpuri, Burhanpur district, has reported a substantial waitlist of industries seeking to establish operations within the forthcoming industrial park. The Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) established to oversee development of the park has obtained partial funding commitments from 250 companies for the cluster’s saleable area of 42 lakh

Policies

CITI Gives Policy Recommendations To Boost Textile Industry

Textile Insights May 21, 2024

The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI), while appreciating efforts of the Indian Textiles Ministry for implementing pivotal policy measures, has also sought sufficient availability of cotton and manmade fibres at internationally competitive prices. To improve the cost competitiveness of the cotton value chain, CITI has given policy recommendations like removal

Policies

India May Give Sops To Boost Synthetic Yarn & Fabric Output

Textile Insights May 4, 2024

The Indian government is considering measures to boost domestic production capabilities of manmade fibre or synthetic yarns and fabrics by offering subsidies and tax incentives. The government will also help to set up advanced manufacturing units, and strengthen the sector’s overall competitiveness, according to two people aware of the matter. “The government is

Apparel, Fashion, Retail

Dun & Bradstreet Q2 Business Optimism Index Higher By 4.2%

Textile Insights April 25, 2024

The Dun & Bradstreet Composite Business Optimism Index stands at 75.9 percent for the second quarter of 2024, 4.2 percent higher compared to first quarter of 2024 for India. Four out of six optimism indices have shown improvement with optimism for net profits at an eight-quarter high. The Index which has been measuring the changing […]

Industry

ITAMMA Announces Appointment Of New Office Bearers For 2024-25

Textile Insights April 15, 2024

ITAMMA has announced appointment of new office bearers for 2024-25. These include Bhaveshkumar Patel as President, Omprakash Mantry as Vice-President and Manan Shah as Honorary Treasurer. Bhaveshkumar Patel is the founder of Ahmedabad based Om Corporation, which is a manufacturer, importer and exporter of textile weaving machinery spare parts and second hand machinery.

Industry

Bloomtex Starts Textile Unit In J&K At Investment Of Rs 120cr

Textile Insights March 4, 2024

Bloomtex Industries has started operations of a textile unit in Kathua district in Jammu & Kashmir at an investment of Rs 120 crore, which will create employment for 350 people. The company has acquired 25 acres of land on lease at Bhagthali Industrial Estate in Kathua and has started the first phase of the project. […]

Industry

SIMA Raises Awareness In Textile Sector On ‘Competition Law’

Textile Insights February 15, 2024

SIMA conducted an awareness programme titled ‘Competition in Textile Market’ to enable textile manufacturers to understand the scope of the Competition Law to sustain competitiveness and achieve sustained growth. V. Sriraj, Joint Director (Law), Southern Regional Office, CCI addressed the participants on the role played by CCI at the awareness seminar, which was attended