Figures published by Pakistans National Bureau of Statistics indicate that textiles and clothing export earnings grew in February by over 3 per cent compared with the previous month, to reach $1.13 billion.

India-based Shri Vallabh Pittie (SVP) Group is setting up a $550 million spinning mill in Kombolcha town, located in the Debub Wollo Zone of Ethiopias Amhara Region. The textile mill, to come up on 50 hectares of land at the industrial zone in Kombolcha, is likely to significantly contribute in achieving the objectives for the textile industry set in the Governments Growth and Transformation Plan.

Having recongised for the “2013 Hong Kong Awards for Industries: Machinery and Machine Tools Design Award”, THEN Airflow® Synergy 8 has broken the barrier of loading capacity,

Indian apparel retail landscape is rapidly evolving from the traditional brick-and-mortar model to multi-channel retailing that includes e-tailing, direct selling and home shopping. Technopak Advisors estimates to be about $41 billion in 2013.

Microencapsulation is being used to make climate-control materials, incorporate fragrances into clothing, and to add cosmetic, therapeutic and medical properties or desired functionality to fabrics, explain Deshpande RH, Tarade Mayur and Chinchwade SS.

SSM will launch five new products and a total of six machines at the event. Brand new SSM machine type will be showed for the first time. The Swiss-based SSM SchSrer Schweiter Mettler AG,

ITMA Asia? 2014 is another opportunity to connect with the French Textile Machinery manufacturers, says Evelyne Cholet, Secretary General of UCMTF, French textile machinery association.

Bauer-Textile and Weyermann Technical Textiles are the strategic partners of BASF SE for the development and distribution of Steron, a new surface technology, which revolutionises the market segment of Velvet surface materials.

After visiting the powerloom cluster in Palladam and Avinashi, Secretary, Union Ministry of Textiles, Zohra Chatterjee observed that the sector is in dire need of modernisation.