Year: 2020

In October 2020, the US issued a Withhold Release Order on cotton and apparel imports from specific producers in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, escalating the already tense trade war between the two large economies.

Ravi Capoor, IAS, Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, advised the stakeholders to focus on value added MMF segment, technical textiles, scale of operation and indigenous textile machinery manufacturing facilities to make Indian textiles and clothing industry globally competitive and grab the post-COVID-19 opportunities.

At the Karl Mayer online stand, visitors found a future-oriented solution portfolio for two of the most important stitch formation techniques – warp knitting and flat knitting

Leading technology manufacturers of the textile industry are looking forward to ITM 2021, which is one of the world’s largest exhibitions in its field, to introduce their latest innovations and machinery.

FPM experts were on hand to answer questions from visitors via live chat and participated in a virtual panel discussion on the subject of ‘Progress in biodegradable textiles’.