This April 2015, UCMTF, the French textile machinery manufacturers ´association was invited by Ilkhom KHAYDAROV, Uzbek Minister in charge of the textile industry and Chairman of the Board of the state joint-stock company for the light industry ´Uzbekyengilsanoat´, to organise two seminars in Uzbekistan.

Denim rarely fades out of fashion, they say. Consumers, especially the youth, in cities beyond the metros and mini metros are growing exceptionally aspirational. They are increasingly accepting denim as a core apparel category to be worn as an everyday casual garment

Despite some reduction in the export of Italian textile machinery to the traditional markets of China, India and Turkey, Italian textile machinery industry is optimistic of the rest of the 2015 and 2016 and is also having a positive outlook on the long-term prospects.

The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) has become a member of the International Cotton Association (ICA). It now joins Supima, the Bangladesh Cotton Association, the Brazilian Association of Cotton Producers, the Spinners & Weavers Association of Korea, the Australian Cotton Shippers Association and Turkey´s IPUD, who have all signed up to ICA membership and safe trading.

Cotton imports by China in June have fallen by 26 per cent already. The see-sawing of prices in major countries including India is causing a lot of anxieties. Chinese prices are under pressure from significant left-over commercial stocks as well as sales of state reserve cotton, kicked off recently.

Dr Greg Constable of Australia is the winner for the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) Researcher of the Year Award for the year 2015. Constable holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Science and a Masters of Agricultural Science from the University of Sydney, and a PhD from the Australian National University, Canberra.

The Swiss company Benninger has been the textile industry´s leading partner across the globe for more than 150 years with global branches and service representatives. Benninger develops and manufactures textile finishing and cord production ranges as well as providing complete system solutions.

The Picanol Group is looking to expand its Ypres production capacity in order to meet worldwide demand for Picanol looms. The Picanol Group expects demand for its looms to continue over the next few months.

Days of weave, cut, stitch & sew are gone, and seamless technology is the in-thing in women´s intimate, active and casual wear, say the top brass from the Sangam (India) Ltd, Bhilwara, which has launched India´s first brand´CHANNEL NINE´born of a ´seamless experience´.