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Ultimate fibre cleaning with the new USTER® JOSSI VISION SHIELD 2.For spinners, it is the dream scenario: better quality yarn for their customers, produced at lower cost. The continuing demand for top quality, all along the textile chain, puts enormous pressure on spinning mills today.

With a mission to impart skills to the new and existing workforce in the domestic and export apparel industry and textiles sector, Apparel Training and Design Centre (ATDC) India’s Largest Vocational Training Network for the Apparel Sector inaugurated ‘Kaushal Vikas Bhawan’ in Patna.

Organic cotton is now being grown in Colombia for the first time, thanks to a pioneering project initiated by German company, La Siesta, which has been manufacturing hammocks using organic cotton since 2008. Organic cotton has been grown in Latin America since the 1990s, starting in Peru, and is also grown in Brazil, Paraguay and in central America, Nicaragua.

Dr Greg A Constable of Australia has won the ICAC Researcher of the Year Award for 2015. The International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) started an annual award ?ICAC Cotton Researcher of the Year? in 2009.

The Cotton Association of India (CAI) has released its December estimate of the cotton crop for the 2015-16 season, which began on 1st October 2015. The CAI has placed its December estimate of the cotton crop for the 2015-16 season at 357.00 lakh bales of 170 kg each.

EURATEX, the European Apparel and Textile Confederation, held its 4th Convention on November 18 in Milan in conjunction with ITMA textile technology fair. This year the event was organised together with EURATEX? Italian member federation Sistema Moda Italia and the Italian association for the technical textiles TexClubTec.