The most important factor in the area of blowroom and cards is the raw material. A saving of 1% good fibres shows considerable effects, writes Simon Urrutia. At a customer in southern India, the rare opportunity presented itself to carry out a direct comparison of the blowroom and card waste. Running parallel there are a Rieter blowroom and carding section as well as a preparation line from another manufacturer, each with practically the same year of construction and almost the same production rate.

March next year, in order to substitute for Bt cotton. This year, CICR began trial cultivation of 15 indigenous varieties of cotton seeds, the results of which will be out by December. In April this year, US-based Monsanto, which makes genetically-modified Bt seeds, had threatened to quit the Indian market. Then, CICR had informed the Government that it is coming up with Indian varieties which can substitute for Bt cotton.

Gujarat has performed remarkably well, achieving an 18 per cent growth over the past decade since 2004, through policy support from both the Centre and State government.

Kid Interior is the first Norway-based company to source Cotton made in Africa (CmiA)-certified cotton.

Kid Interior is the first Norway-based company to source Cotton made in Africa (CmiA)-certified cotton.

Kid Interior is the first Norway-based company to source Cotton made in Africa (CmiA)-certified cotton.

Sympatex Technologies, a pioneer in the field of sustainable functional textiles, will be exhibiting its smart textiles product category at Expoprotection fair, the only event in France.

Textile chemicals market in Vietnam is expected to witness strong growth in the coming five years on account of improvements in macroeconomic factors and smooth trading policies.

Century Textiles and Industries is looking to demerge its textile business and likely to merge it with Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail (ABFRL) to bring the entire textile and fashion business of the Aditya Birla Group under one roof.