Minister of State for Textiles Santosh Kumar Gangwar laid the foundation stone for apparel and garment making centre in Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram, and hoped the centre will be the beginning of setting up of an organised industry in the state.

Convincing facts: Constant quality guaranteed in the winding process, quick trend detection within production, easy-to-use, all settings at a glance, covers each and every application, online production monitoring with management cockpit, easy maintenance, and database for product and group settings.

Ingersoll Rand advances the quality of life by creating and sustaining safe, comfortable and efficient environments. Its brands´Club Car®, Ingersoll Rand®, Schlage®, Thermo King® and Trane®´work together to enhance the quality and comfort of air in homes and buildings, transport and protect food and perishables, secure homes and commercial properties, and increase industrial productivity and efficiency.

Datatex has announced 2014 sales and revenues results of its NOW ERP Software solutions for the textile carpet and apparel market. 2014 has been a record year for the NOW product with package sales more than double from the previous year and total revenue increasing by over 25 per cent.

Ninety Turkish cotton professionals attended the International Cotton Association´s (ICA) ´Raw Cotton Contracting´ training in Turkey last week (25 February), thanks to sponsorship from the Kahramanmaras Chamber of Commerce.

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.