The hometech textiles market comprises a strong part of the technical textile market including upholstered furniture industry, household textiles and furnishings. Hometech textiles range from filter products used in vacuum cleaners to fibre fills in mattresses and pillows.
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The Union Cabinet Chaired by the Prime Minister approved certain reforms to boost employment generation and exports in the made-ups sector that has been facing challenges in the international market due to high costs of production, non-refund of State levies, high tariff barrier when compared to the competing nations such as Pakistan, Vietnam, etc.
Teijin Limited announced that it would integrate its industrial-application polyester fibres business and the Products Converting Business Group to form the new Fibres & Products Converting Business Group next April 1, aiming to strengthen and expand these businesses under a new structure.
COTTON USA is making plans to promote U.S. cotton’s quality, responsible production and innovation at the world’s leading trade show for home textiles.
Conductive cotton fabrics have been developed into flexible wearable strain sensors. A team of scientists from the UK-based Cambridge University and Jiangnan University in China has used modified graphene to develop wearable cotton smart textiles.
Thanks to the US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Cambodia’s domestic garment and footwear industry is expected to get a boost, according to the Garment Manufacturer’s Association of Cambodia (GMAC).
Kenya plans to revive its cotton industry, a major foreign-exchange earner until the 1980s, amid strong demand for lint from domestic mills and the potential to supply manufacturers exporting clothing and textiles to the US under a preferential trade deal.