Shipments in most of the textile machinery segments experienced declines in 2014. Deliveries of new short-staple spindles fell by 15 per cent from 2013 to 2014. Shipped long-staple spindles and open-end rotors increased by 70 per cent and 2.6 per cent respectively.
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Textile Sector Skill Council (TSC) has begun collating data from the mill sector to understand the industry?s job role training requirement, for submission to the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC).
Bangladeshi spinners demand introduction of warehousing facility for cotton trade to reduce lead-time and ensure the timely sourcing of the fibre. Under the facility, merchants from different countries will store cotton at Chittagong port warehouses to sell out their cotton to the local cotton importers and spinners.
AATCC recently honoured Nelson E Houser with the AATCC Education Award in recognition of his numerous contributions to the association´s education and training activities.
Dr NN Mahapatra of Colorant Ltd has penned a new book titled ´Textiles and Environment´. The book has been written in accordance to the author´s personal experience while he was working in big corporate companies as general manager of the dye house.
The Rs 7000-cr textile to power conglomerate LNJ Bhilwara Group has announced a consolidation of its flagship textiles company RSWM, with merger of Cheslind Textiles Ltd and expansion of its plant at Kharigram unit.
In their May report, the USDA has released its first complete set of estimates for an upcoming crop year. The projection for world production in 2015-16 is 111.3 million bales, which represents an 8.0 million bale decrease (-6.7 per cent) relative to the 119.3 million bales harvested in 2014-15.