The Indian weaving industry is growing slowly but steadily despite several constraints. To accelerate its growth, the industry needs to develop a robust model and infrastructure. In this article, Sanjay Arora sheds more light on the current status of the Indian weaving industry in terms of production, capacities, fabric demand and emerging trends. He also highlights on the challenges and suggests ways to overcome the same.

The flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, Grasim Industries, collaborated with Taiwanese nonwoven manufacturing firm Nanliu Enterprise to donate 50,000 masks in Nagda, Madhya Pradesh.

Wipro Limited announced that it has extended its partnership with Levi Strauss & Co., for providing Global IT support services.

Shuttle-less looms are useful in fulfilling the rising demand for woven products. Apart from the high speed, the shuttle-less looms have advantages like less picking energy, more colour weft insertion, higher design capability, wider width etc. In this article, S Sundaresan, V Ramesh Babu, and Arunraj Arumugam review techno-economics of shuttle-less looms.

When technological advances are integrated in a meaningful way and the ERP becomes more and more an Industry 4.0 solution, it can even create completely new potentials.

Visitors will learn how Stäubli solutions can boost weaving or sock-knitting performance and their overall mill efficiency.

Microfibres are shedded out of garments during washing of textiles. They enter aquatic food chain and ultimately impact human life. Understanding the pattern of microfibre release and eliminating the resultant contamination of water is a major challenge, says Dr Ashok Athalye and Sharan Shetty.

In this interview, Pulkit Agarwal, Associate Director, CARE Ratings, analyses the performance of Indian home textiles industry and the effect of the second Covid wave on the industry.

Santex Rimar to showcase fabric manufacturers’ favorites at ITMA Asia + CITME 2021.