Liva, the new age fabric brand from the Aditya Birla Group, has come out with one-of-its-kind approach for spreading awareness about the fabric and its attributes.

Maharashtra Cooperation, Marketing and Textiles Minister Subhash Deshmukh has directed the Agriculture Produce Market Committees to commence online registration of farmers for the purchase of cotton from October 18 for the 2017-18 season.

Huntsman Textile Effects, a provider of high quality dyes and chemicals, has unveiled TERATOP XKS HL reactive inks that deliver outstanding weather-fastness for digital printing of polyester fibres. TERATOP XKS HL inks help mills produce technical textiles with the highest colour-fastness performance for automotive, outdoor furnishings, and home textiles.

The Maharashtra Government is working out a new textile policy for the period 2017-22, and has invited inputs from all the stake holders in this regard.

The man-made fibres (MMF) and yarns were slotted under 18 per cent GST rate while the fabrics were slotted under 5 per cent GST slab with a condition that no refund of Input Tax Credit would be allowed at fabric stage.

The Paul Schlack/Wilhelm Albrecht Prize 2017 was awarded to two employees of ITA, RWTH Aachen — Dr Gisa Wortberg and Dr Andreas De Palmenaer, ITA, RWTH Aachen. More than a hundred top-class international expert lectures from academic research and industry turned this year’s Dornbirn MFC into something unique.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will lay the foundation stone for the Warangal textiles Park on October 20, 2017. He will lay the foundation stone on the same day for the Rs 669 crore Warangal Outer Ring Road (WORR).

Ethiopia very recently showcased its prowess in textile and garment industry at the African Sourcing and Fashion Week, which gathered some 230 international producers and exporters from 25 countries, among which India also played a key role, the organisers Trade and Fairs East Africa and Messe Frankfurt said.

The ambitious project of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to create a textile mill museum at the India United Mill located at Kalachowki, Mumbai, is picking up some pace. As of now, it’s not just the JJ School of Arts that would help the BMC to prepare a blueprint of the museum, but Nitin Desai, who will be involved.