The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI) recently urged the government to waive the 37 per cent tax on partially-oriented yarn (POY 5402.4600), the basic raw material for the textile industry and small and medium enterprises.

Textile Exchange, a non-profit organisation of leading brands, retailers, and suppliers, has released its 2020 Organic Cotton Market report. The report reveals data collected for the 2018/19 harvest year.

OrganoClick has since several years supplied biodegradable industrial impregnation products for textiles under the brand OrganoTex. Now, the products OrganoTex Textile Waterproofing, OrganoTex BioCare Sport Textile Wash and OrganoTex Wool & Down Wash are launched in Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg with Ideavelop BV as sales and distribution partner.

Applied DNA has received a Notice of Allowance for its US Patent Application No. 14/572,552 (US 2016/0168781 A1) entitled ‘Method and Device for Marking Fibrous Materials’. Applied DNA is a leading global provider of molecular technologies that enable supply chain security, anti-counterfeiting and anti-theft technology, and product genotyping.

OrganoClick has since several years supplied biodegradable industrial impregnation products for textiles under the brand OrganoTex. Now, the products OrganoTex Textile Waterproofing, OrganoTex BioCare Sport Textile Wash and OrganoTex Wool & Down Wash are launched in Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg with Ideavelop BV as sales and distribution partner.

Arvind Mathur, CEO, Raymond UCO Denim, speaks on the company’s collaboration with Swiss innovator HeiQ and their functional denim range – SHIELD, and its unique features.

The total cotton supply estimated by the CAI during the months of October 2019 to July 2020 is 392.40 lakh bales of 170 kg each which consists of the arrival of 345.40 lakh bales upto July 31, 2020, imports of 15 lakh bales upto July 31, 2020 and the opening stock estimated by the CAI at 32 lakh bales at the beginning of the season on October 1, 2019.

Carlo Centonze, CEO, HeiQ Group, speaks on the revolutionary HeiQ Viroblock NPJ03 technology and how it will help fight the global pandemic.

Despite the difficult moment that the world economy is going through due to the consequences of the pandemic generated by the COVID-19 virus, Itema’s Board of Directors chooses not to stop investments, convinced that the only way to overcome this critical period is to believe in a future made prosperous by long-term strategic choices.