Year: 2015

The devaluation of Chinese currency yuan will have an adverse impact on India´s textiles exports and clothing, which is facing sluggish growth due to recessionary conditions in global markets. The surprise move by China to devalue its currency is a threat to the pace of India´s exports, according to analysts.

Let´s look at some examples in India and its neighbour, Bangladesh. Exploration Architecture, a company that specialises in biomimicry, has completed its design for a sustainable factory in Nagpur, India

What we see today are onrush of innovations touching sustainability everywhere. ITMA may be the watershed year for the global textile industry to take this sustainability to a new higher level. Here are some innovations worth noting

Dr NN Mahapatra, VP – BD, Colorant Ltd, has written a book titled ´Textile Technology´, which will be available for Rs 1,495.

Asia´s purified terephthalic acid (PTA) industry is expected to come under increasing pressure in 2016 as India adds 2.3 mt to its production capacity in the first half of 2016, industry sources said.

Liva recently hosted the LIVA Partner Conclave 2015 at Radisson Blu, Jaipur. This year March marked yet another milestone for Birla Cellulose with launch of ´LIVA´. LIVA has tremendous potential to revolutionise the way we think about fashion in textiles.