Month: February 2019

Organised by India ITME Society, the first edition ITME Africa is to be held in Millennium Hall, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from February 14-16, 2020.

It is no exaggeration if you call it a giant leap! ? From a single product in 2001 to over 48 products at present, Shree Pushkar Chemicals & Fertilizers, an integrated speciality chemicals and colourants manufacturing company,etc.

The LANXESS High Performance Materials business unit is also investing in its global production network for high performance plastics, and is building a further compounding plant at its Krefeld-Uerdingen site.

Pratibha Syntex is a vertically integrated sustainability-oriented textile conglomerate, which was incepted in the year 1995 as a spinning unit. Today, the company has state-of-the-art spinning, modern knitting, resource efficient dye house and printing, and world-class garment manufacturing facilities.

All is not well on the cotton front! Fall in production and acreage, and wild fluctuations in the prices beginning late last year have dampened the spirit of the industry. On the farm front, ravages of bollworm have added to the woes of the suppliers.

The shifting of polluting textile dyeing and printing mills outside the city limits could be a reality with the state government approving specified shifting zones for the industrial units with the addition of few provisions in the General Development Control Regulation (GDCR).

The cotton price has been fluctuating in tandem with international price unlike earlier cotton seasons. The global cotton price ruled high during the last cotton season which continued till the beginning of the new season.