A new initiative aimed at accelerating the uptake of organic cotton has been launched with the backing of retailers such as C&A, H&M and Eileen Fisher, as well as Textile Exchange.

Gujarat, through its focused policy on textile industry, will emerge as the country´s textile hub in the next five years offering business and employment opportunity, Saurabh Patel State Finance Minister said.

Outlast Technologies, market leader for temperature regulating phase change materials (PCMs), enlarges its product range again and presents the new performance filling material ´Universe´

Dumping is a two-way traffic. ´Dumpers´ are victims themselves at times. For the global textile industry, which has come a long way since dismantling of quotas in 2005, this is a disputable irritant that rears its ugly head now & then.

On October 17, 2014 during the Annual Conference 2014 of the International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) in Beijing/China, the Committee of Management of the Federation elected Wang Tiankai (China) unanimously as the new President of the Federation for the next two years.

The 55th International Fashion, Apparel & Textile Exhibition will be held between 5-8 March 2015 at Cairo International Conference Center (CICC), Cairo, Egypt. Organised by Pyramids Fair Group, CAIROFASHION & TEX will have a host of exhibitors, including manufacturers

UK-based JS Humidifiers has been rebranded to Condair plc, while another UK company James Heal has been acquired by Battery Ventures. From 15 October 2014, textile humidification specialist JS Humidifiers

Jakob Mnller AG´s MÜJET® MBJL6 1/1380 is ideally suited for top production performance and offers proven Mnller quality. At ITMA Asia, which took place in Shanghai from 16-20 June 2014

Being Human Clothing, a clothing line with a heart has launched four new stores in the country in a span of one month under its licensing partner Mandhana Industries Ltd. With the launch of stores in Ambala, Bhopal, Udaipur and Ahmedabad the brand now boasts of successful operations of 31 EBOs in India including one in Nepal.