Total exports of textiles and garments from Vietnam to the USA gained a year-on-year increase of 11.7 per cent to US$9.88 billion from January to November 2015.

Screen Print India 2016, a dedicated platform to the screen printing industry that facilitates enhancing awareness and informal networking for over two decades, is being held from May 6-8, 2016 at Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai. The credibility factor is evident from the act that SGIA (USA), SGAI and IPAMA have pledged their support, with many more to follow.

Based on latest technologies presented at ITMA in Milan, Oerlikon?s Manmade Fibers Segment received a number of large orders totaling more than CHF 50 million for their Oerlikon Neumag staple fibre plant engineering technologies.

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has opened a specialist unit in San Francisco to oversee imports of apparel, footwear and textiles (AFT). The new centre – which joins three other units covering pharmaceuticals, electronics and petroleum, natural gas and mineral products – is aimed at encouraging collaboration between CBP and industry.

The current scenario demonsrates that almost four-fifths of the total printing is being done on the screens, aver Shruti Gupta, Bhawna, Jyoti Kumari, Kamil Malik, and Khyati Singh.

The recent ITMA exhibition in Milan was one of the most successful exhibitions ever in the 70 year history of R.

Leading South Korean technical textiles company, Dongyang MirAcle, has developed one of the strongest synthetic fibres, called the ?UHMWPE? yarn.

The Palladam Hi-tech Weaving Park (PHWP), Palladam was the first park to be developed under the Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP) of Ministry of Textiles by availing 40 per cent grant from Central Government and 9 per cent grant from the State Government.

SSM and SSM GIUDICI ? at ITMA ? showed eight new product launches and a total of fourteen applications on their booth. The new XENO-platform attracted an extraordinary number of visitors.