MAG celebrated its Silver Jubilee on November 9, 2016. All the eminent personalities who had supported MAG through these years graced this occasion with their presence. The grand occasion was adorned by the present MAG’s employees, well-wishers and business associates along with their family. GV Aras, Director, A.T.E Enterprises Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai was the Chief Guest of the event and unveiled the Silver Jubilee commemorative stone.

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).

The Ministry of Textiles has proposed two new schemes – New Powerloom Credit Yojana and Solar Energy Scheme –for the powerloom sector.

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.

MAG celebrated its Silver Jubilee on November 9, 2016. All the eminent personalities who had supported MAG through these years graced this occasion with their presence.

Thanks to the demonetisation, the Indian textile and apparel industry has lost 30-40 per cent of business. Apparel sale in domestic markets had stopped in the initial days and recovered gradually.

During the first nine months of the current year, Indian apparel exports have declined by (-) 0.08 per cent to $2,876.59 million as compared to $2,878.79 million in the corresponding period last year. I

Most of the weavers today are aware of the factors influencing the breakage rate, although the relative importance contributing to these factors is not generally understood, opine PV Kadole, Manjunath Burji and MM Makandar. The grey yarn as obtained from the spinning process has to undergo various processes such as winding, warping, sizing and weaving before it is converted into fabric.

Bangladesh-based Knit Concern Group gets one step further ahead being the country leader in producing knitwear fabric with machines made in Germany from BRÃœCKNER. The Knit Concern Group, founded in 1990 is specialised in the production of high-quality warp-knitted and knitted fabric. At the beginning Knit Concern had about 500 workers. In the meantime, the company has grown and is one of the biggest textile producers in Bangladesh.