Sustainability

Kyocera Launches ‘True Blue Textile’ Project To Conserve Water

Textile Insights March 14, 2024

Kyocera Corporation has launched a ‘True Blue Textile’ project based on a ‘Wear to Save Water’ fashion concept with the aim to promote consumer awareness of environmental issues. ‘True Blue Textile’ fabric was printed by Kyocera’s Forearth water free

Machinery

Stratasys Showing Direct-To-Textile 3D Printing At Texprocess

Textile Insights March 12, 2024

Stratasys will showcase its 3DFashion direct-to-textile 3D printing technology at Texprocess in Frankfurt in Hall 8.0, Stall D28 and highlight how textile printing companies can unlock new design capabilities. “Stratasys will present its J850 TechStyle 3D printer, demonstrating the latest in additive manufacturing plus exclusive direct to garment advanced capabilities,”

Sustainability

Circular Technology To Help Reduce Textile Effluent Pollution

Textile Insights February 20, 2024

The University of Coimbra (UC) in Portugal in partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras (IIT Madras) is developing a circular technology that could reduce textile industry pollution. The team is developing a technology that makes it possible to recover and reuse the water, dyes and additives that make up the contaminated effluent […]

Industry

AMC To Supply Treated Industrial Water To Ahmedabad Mills

Textile Insights January 20, 2024

After two years of negotiations and persuasion, textile mills, which also include standalone dyeing and printing mills in Ahmedabad will finally get treated industrial wastewater at Rs 30 per kilolitre. The Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) and three major industry associations in the city have approved this price for drawing tertiary treated sewage water for […]

Policies

Revision In Chinese Textile Dyeing & Printing Mill Regulations

Textile Insights January 4, 2024

China has revised the regulations which textile printing and dyeing companies will need to follow from January 2024. The first regulation is for machinery and equipment under which the new regulations specify using technologically advanced, green and low-carbon process machinery and equipment. It also suggests strict control of automatic dispensing and delivery system of

Dyes & Chemicals

Silicones Manufacturer Elkem Celebrates 120th Anniversary

Textile Insights January 3, 2024

Elkem celebrated its 120th anniversary on January 2, having grown from being an industrial start-up in 1904, into one of the world’s leading providers of advanced silicon-based materials. Today, the Norway based company has around 7,300 employees all over the world, delivering revenues of NOK 45.9 billion. With more than 550 researchers around the world, […]

Industry

Ahmedabad Textile Process Houses Extend Diwali Holidays

Textile Insights November 15, 2023

Several Ahmedabad based textile process houses have decided to extend Diwali holidays to a fortnight as against the 3-5 holidays in previous years. Most of these fabric printing or dyeing factories were running at half of their production capacities in a week before Diwali due to low orders in hand, and hence the decision to […]

Textile Park

Meeting Called For Setting Up Mini Textile Park In Thanjavur

Textile Insights November 15, 2023

The Collector of Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu has invited entrepreneurs from the textile and garment industry to a meeting scheduled for November 17 on setting up mini textile parks. The units set up in backward blocks are eligible for capital subsidy and the scheme envisages setting up mini textile parks on about two acres of […]

Textile Print

Harish Textile Engineers To Relaunch Rotary Printing Technology With Innovations

November 12, 2023

Harish Textile Engineers is set to relaunch its rotary printing technology with innovative developments. The relaunched rotary printing technology includes a unique system for attending to screens during printing, high-quality brushes for thorough and fast cleaning of the blanket and improved dryers for efficient fabric drying at high speeds. The new developments in rotary

Corporates

KPR Mill Expanding Fabric Processing & Solar Power Capacities

Textile Insights November 9, 2023

KP Ramasamy led KPR Mill is expanding its fabric processing capacity and also increasing its solar power generation capabilities. KPR Mill has planned an expansion of the processing capacity from 25,000 to 37,000 metric tons per annum at an investment of Rs. 250 crores and is expected be on stream within one year. The Coimbatore […]