According to the Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA), the import duty on raw cotton would erode the competitiveness India’s value-added segments that has a business size of around Rs 50,000 crores in exports and Rs 25,000 crores in the domestic market.
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ITC Infotech, a leading global technology service in Bangalore, and Washington State University have collaborated to launch apparels and retail technology industry-academia program.
Donear Group Companies has become the first textile company, in India, to introduce a revolutionary anti-viral fabric, under the brand GRADO.
Birla Cellulose’s Grasim Vilayat site has commissioned the Carbon-disulphide Adsorption Plant (CAP) and achieved the sulphur-to- air emission norms in the EU BAT references for the viscose manufacturing process.
German sportswear firm Adidas, planning to increase the proportion of sustainable materials in its products, is investing in Finland’s Spinnova, a company that makes textile fibre out of wood or agricultural waste.
The garment manufacturers in Tiruppur and the Micro, Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (MSMEs) in Coimbatore have appealed to the government for financial support as the units are shut for a month due to lockdown.
The seventh ITMA ASIA + CITME exhibition – the largest textile machinery exhibition to be held since the start of the pandemic – has opened in Shanghai (China) from 12 June 2021