Cotton spinners no longer need worry about customer claims and demands for price reductions because of low-quality yarn. That might seem like wishful thinking – but it is now a reality, thanks to the comprehensive contamination solution offered by USTER-« JOSSI systems.

Santosh Kumar Gangwar, India´s Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Textiles, has urged rural women to promote sericulture for increasing silk production in the country. Speaking at the inaugural session of a national workshop on ¨Empowering Women Through Sericulture¨.

Energy costs are one of the most important cost factors in textile production. Apart from cutting-edge machinery, a professional energy management system with integrated monitoring can achieve considerable savings.

Kimberly-Clark has announced the launch of its Aero Blue performance surgical gown, a new product for clinicians working in operating rooms.
In head-to-head fluid resistance tests, the soft, lightweight gown has been shown to deliver four times greater fluid protection than other non-reinforced gowns in the same category.

Since ever, Loepfe´s optical yarn clearers are ´built to see more´. Today, the spinning specialists ´want to see and know more´. To meet these requirements, Loepfe´s R&D team has only used state-of-the-art and fastest processors

A.T.E. has been representing Corino Macchine S.p.A., Italy, for their range of processing machinery over most of India for the last five years. Strengthening the partnership between A.T.E. and Corino further, the representation is now extended to cover South India as well, thus covering all of India. A.T.E. will also be taking care of after-sales service for Corino-including erection.

Four foreign fast-fashion brands were named in Chinas top five worst in terms of safety among imported clothing, the countrys quality watchdog announced recently. Forever 21, Zara, H&M and Mango were the most frequently found to fail quality

Although December futures have been testing higher values, they have yet to break decisively above resistance near 68 cents/lb and were range-bound over the past month with values trading between 65 cents/lb and 68 cents/lb.

The 8th Asian Textile Conference (Atexcon), being organised by The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) will be held on 22nd & 23rd September 2014 at Hotel Westin, Mumbai, India. The U.S. Foreign Commercial Service, Department of Commerce, USA is the supporter of the 8th ATEXCON.