M Senthilkumar, Chairman, The Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA) has highly appreciated and thanked the concerted and constant efforts made by Union Textile Minister, Smriti Zubin Irani for fully understanding the needs of the industry and persuading the Finance Minister and Prime Minister to classify the entire cotton textile value chain under 5 per cent GST rate.

The Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS) together with the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) will host a seminar on sustainable textile industry on July 13, 2017.

Cotton seed companies will no longer require a no-objection certificate (NoC) from licence providers for developing new varieties based on the latter’s technology.

Teijin Frontier Co Ltd, a fibre and products converting company and a part of Teijin Limited, has developed a new sweat-suit fabric, four-dimensional, bulky, light, and extra soft, DELTAPEAK.

Bharat Bijlee handed over its 10,000th AC drive to its customer Ferromatik Milacron India (FMI) on April 21, 2017, at a celebratory function at its factory in Airoli, Navi Mumbai.

The Agriculture Department of Pakistan’s Punjab Province has launched a cotton crop monitoring system to safeguard cotton crop from pests.

Speciality chemicals company Lanxess has appointed Dr Jens-Christian Blad as the new head of Corporate Development. with effect from September 1, 2017, at the latest.

The eight-day training programme—Cotton Classing & Testing—that took place in Bremen, Germany from May 9-16, was delivered by industry experts from ICA Bremen, and the Bremen Fibre Institute (FIBRE).

In line with the commitments towards the digital textile printing industry, the Inkjet India Conference in its seventh year will relaunch itself as the Digital Textile Symposium.