The Karnataka Government is angling for global investments in the textile sector, especially for specialised industries such as hospitals, sports and infrastructure. Karnataka is home to 70 large and medium textile companies and more than 50,000 small units operate under the micro, small and medium (MSME) categories.
Month: March 2016
ASTM International, one of the world’s leading standards development organisations, has launched the “Year of the SME: Small Business in Action†at its first major meeting of 2016. Throughout the year, ASTM will emphasise how input from small and medium-sized enterprises is crucial to creating high-quality technical standards.
India’s overall exports of textiles and clothing in 2015-16 may stand at $40 billion, similar to the level a year ago, according to the new Textile Commissioner Kavita Gupta who has assured the textile industry all-out support to overcome global slowdown.
Based in The Netherlands, Hollanders Printing Systems B.V. develops, designs and manufactures digital textile printers and machinery for disperse fixation and washing that have been designed to achieve the highest possible uptime, combined with the lowest possible purchase and operational costs against the best ecological footprint.
India’s cotton industry is a happy lot now, thanks to the whitefly ravage that has gripped Pakistan, threatening to push Pakistan’s cotton production to an 18-year low
in 2015/16, according to the latest projection from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Anew 16-page brochure from A. Monforts Textilmaschinen has introduced an innovative one-stop complete coating range for virtually all applications, including solvent treatment, wider width fabrics and technical textiles.
Khurshed M Thanawalla is an independent non-executive director of Mandhana Industries Limited. He holds a Bachelors degree in Commerce from Mumbai University He is Fellow member of Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of London and is also a Fellow of the British Institute of Management and Associate of Textile Institute, UK.