Browsing: Industry Update

Following successful annual seminars hosted by Cotton Council International (CCI) in fall 2015 and 2016 respectively, CCI is organising its third annual seminar in India on September 23, 2017 at the Hotel Taj Surya in Coimbatore.

37 Indian companies took part in the annual Cairo Fashion and Tex Exhibition, which was held from September 13-16 at the Cairo International Convention Centre.

The disparity between cotton and yarn prices has put the spinning sector in a tight spot, especially due to the steep decline in the price of yarn compared with the fibre cost.

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been apprised of an MoU between Central Silk Board (CSB), India and National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Japan for collaborative research in the field of silkworm and silk industries.

P Nataraj, Managing Director of KPR Group, who has now been elected as the new Chairman of The Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA), highly appreciated the bold and proactive initiatives taken by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and Union Textile Minister, Smriti Irani.

COTTON USA will show the global textile and apparel industry WHAT’S NEW IN COTTON™, including US cotton-rich fabrics created with innovative technology, at its booth in Hall 6, D60 at Première Vision in Paris from September 19-21.

To avoid middlemen in procurement of cotton and ensure provision of Minimum Support Price (MSP) to farmers, the Agriculture Department in Telangana has taken a novel decision to issue bar-coded tamper proof ID cards with the help of Revenue Department to all the cotton growers in the State.