The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) has procured about 5 lakh bales this season of which 4 lakh bales have been procured at minimum support price (MSP) and the remaining 1 lakh bales as part of its commercial operations, senior officials at the CCI said.

The government of Bihar has sanctioned a grant of Rs 60 crore for the set up of an advanced centre on sericulture in the state. The centre will come up at Abdul Kalam Agriculture College in the Kishanganj district. The establishment of the proposed silk farming centre will help in the development and growth of the silk industry in the state.

Exports of home textiles from Egypt increased 4.8 per cent year-on-year in January-November 2017. Exports during the eleven-month period were valued at $664 million, as against $443 million registered in the same period last year, according to the Egyptian Home Textiles Export Council (HTEC), under the ministry of foreign trade and industry.

Indo Count Industries Limited, one of the leading manufacturer and exporter of bed linen and home textiles in India, has won the prestigious gold trophy for the “highest exports of cotton made-ups (bed linen/bed sheets/quilts)” for the year 2016-2017.

GoCoop, India’s first online Global marketplace that enables handloom co-operatives and artisans, will host ‘the good loom show’, a trunk show to showcase their brand new fashion label ‘the good loom’ at Taj Vivanta, MG Road on January 5-6, 2018.

LANXESS, a specialty chemicals company, has announced addition to its LewaPlus software suite of reverse osmosis (RO) and ion exchange (IX) system dimensioning capabilities.

Liva, the new age fabric brand from the Aditya Birla Group, launched a one-of-its-kind initiative for spreading awareness. For the first time ever an ingredient brand deputed Fashion Advisors in large format stores namely Pantaloons, etc.

Indo Count Industries Limited, one of the leading manufacturer and exporter of bed linen and home textiles in India, has won the prestigious gold trophy for the “highest exports of cotton made-ups (bed linen/bed sheets/quilts)” for the year 2016-2017. Having won Bronze and Silver trophy in the past, this is the first time that Indo Count has been awarded with Gold Trophy.

At the SPS IPC Drives, B&R also unveiled its new intelligent transport system: ACOPOStrak, which is the first system in the world to extend the economies of mass production down to batches of one.