Organic cotton is now being grown in Colombia for the first time, thanks to a pioneering project initiated by German company, La Siesta, which has been manufacturing hammocks using organic cotton since 2008. Organic cotton has been grown in Latin America since the 1990s, starting in Peru, and is also grown in Brazil, Paraguay and in central America, Nicaragua.
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The PPSS Group, based at Knaresborough in North Yorkshire, in the UK has launched the world?s first slash resistant combat shirt made out of 100 per cent Cut-Tex PRO, the high-performance knitted fabric for the protective wear sector.
Jute geotextiles can be used as reinforcing material to stabilise both peat and black cotton soil as its feasibility for various civil engineering applications was evaluated, Union Jute Commissioner, under Ministry of Textiles, Subrata Gupta disclosed.
The US company Milliken has been recognised by Future Materials as the ?Most Innovative Large Size Company.? Given by Future Materials, an international technical textiles magazine published by the World Textile Information Network (WTiN)…
Based on latest technologies presented at ITMA in Milan, Oerlikon?s Manmade Fibers Segment received a number of large orders totaling more than CHF 50 million for their Oerlikon Neumag staple fibre plant engineering technologies.
Manchester in the UK was once known for cotton and mills. But the King of Fibres? glory faded away in the course of time with many mills closing down over the years! But now, there seems to be a resurgence at Greater Manchester!
Organic cotton is now being grown in Colombia for the first time, thanks to a pioneering project initiated by German company, La Siesta, which has been manufacturing hammocks using organic cotton since 2008. Organic cotton has been grown in Latin America since the 1990s, starting in Peru, and is also grown in Brazil, Paraguay and in central America, Nicaragua.