Corporates

EcoEx Appoints Kapil Lakhwara As VP – Textile Sustainability & Global Partnerships

Textile Insights October 12, 2026

EcoEx has appointed Kapil Lakhwara as Vice President – Textile Sustainability & Global Partnerships, as the company looks to strengthen India’s textile waste-to-value ecosystem and advance circularity across the global textile industry. Lakhwara brings extensive experience in textile

Tete-A-Tete

India Can Emerge As A Preferred Destination For Sustainable Textile Manufacturing: Manmohan Singh

Textile Insights October 9, 2026

Traceability has become a business necessity for the textile industry as brands, regulators and consumers demand greater transparency, avers Manmohan Singh in this exclusive interview with Textile Insights Livaeco Lyocell is described as a third-generation man-made cellulosic fibre. What sets it apart from viscose and modal in terms of technology and performance? Livaeco

Export

Rethinking India’s Apparel Export Strategy In A Shifting Global Sourcing Landscape

Textile Insights October 9, 2026

Global apparel sourcing decisions used to rest on a fairly narrow set of criteria: unit cost, capacity and turnaround time. That calculus no longer holds on its own. Trade policy is being rewritten in real time, buyers are actively rebalancing where they place orders, and market access itself has turned into a variable rather than […]

Sustainability

Global Standards Launches GRTS For Broader Range Of Textile Fibres

Textile Insights September 21, 2026

Global Standards has launched the Global Responsible Textile Standard (GRTS), a new textile processing standard covering a wider range of fibres, including plant, animal, synthetic, man-made cellulosic and recycled fibres. Developed using experience from the established Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), GRTS provides a certification route for textile products made

Sustainability

Traceability Becomes A Market Requirement: OEKO-TEX

Textile Insights September 8, 2026

Annual Report 2025/26 highlights sharp growth in certified organic cotton and MADE IN GREEN as regulatory scrutiny of textile supply chains intensifies Traceability is rapidly moving from a competitive advantage to a requirement for market access as regulatory scrutiny of textile supply chains increases across major markets, according to the OEKO-TEX® Annual Report

Industry

UK-Vietnam Trade Pact Boosts Textile Exports, But Compliance Remains Hurdle

Textile Insights September 7, 2026

Vietnam’s textile and garment exports to the UK have gained momentum under the UK-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (UKVFTA), but exporters will need to strengthen supply chains and meet tougher sustainability and traceability norms to expand their market share. The UK’s share of Vietnam’s textile and garment exports increased from 1.7% in 2020 to 2% last […]

Special Report

Giriraj Singh Releases CMAI-GATS ‘CXO Blueprint 2030’ To Guide India’s Textile Export Growth

Textile Insights July 16, 2026

Giriraj Singh, Hon’ble Minister of Textiles, Government of India, released the India Textiles & Apparel CXO Blueprint 2030, a strategic report by the Clothing Manufacturers Association of India (CMAI) and the Global Alliance for Textile Sustainability (GATS), at the Sustainability & Circularity Impact Pavilion during Bharat Tex 2026. The report outlines strategic

Corporates

PDEXCIL, AWARE Partner To Advance Digital Product Passport Readiness At Bharat Tex

Textile Insights July 15, 2026

The Powerloom Development & Export Promotion Council (PDEXCIL) and AWARE™, an Amsterdam-based neutral cross-border data infrastructure provider for textile producers, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at Bharat Tex 2026 to help India’s powerloom sector prepare for emerging European Union Digital Product Passport (DPP) requirements. The MoU was signed by

Industry

Intertek Announces Launch Of Its Icare Platform In India

Textile Insights May 21, 2024

Intertek, a provider of total quality assurance (TQA) solutions, has announced launch of its innovative iCare platform in India. “This one-stop digital portal is specifically designed to address the needs of the textile industry, following its successful debut in Türkiye last November,” Intertek said in a press release. iCare empowers textile manufacturers to seamlessly

Industry

TextileGenesis & Eon Collaborate On Digital Product Passports

Textile Insights April 26, 2024

TextileGenesis, a platform which ensures material traceability for the textile and garment sector has collaborated with Eon to create comprehensive Digital Product Passports (DPPs). Eon offers product digitisation, enabling retail brands to turn products into traceable, valuable assets through the creation of Digital IDs. “This collaboration will enable brands to create