The exports of textiles item have increased to $35.67 billion in 2017-18. The Government has fixed export targets for textile and apparel including handicrafts for 2018-19 at $47.29 billion.

Consul Neowatt, the global Indian UPS company, has appointed Mumbai-based Savex Technologies as National Distributor for its full range of power back-up and power conditioning products.

The ‘Circular Design Challenge’ — a collaboration of Reliance Industries Ltd.’s (RIL) R | Elan ‘Fashion for Earth’ initiative, Lakmé Fashion Week (LFW) and the United Nations (UN) in India, has announced a shortlist of 8 designers.

Switzerland’s long hot summer of 2017 – the hottest for over a century, with temperatures soaring as high as 34°C throughout May and June – was violently interrupted in the first weekend of July when heavy storms finally broke.

The Egyptian government has appointed an official steering committee to safeguard the future of the Egyptian Cotton brand.

Devan Chemicals NV, the Ronse-based developer of finishing technologies for textiles, plans to showcase some of its latest health and wellness solutions at the upcoming Heimtextil trade show in Frankfurt, Germany.

The Joint Technological Conference (JTC) is a combined annual feature of four textile research associations NITRA, BTRA, SITRA & ATIRA.

Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), a global chemical producer, announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire INVISTA Resins & Fibers GmbH, which owns a high value-added PET manufacturing facility located in Gersthofen, Germany.

Politics has become even more unpredictable and so no one is entirely certain about the outcome the G20 Summit – especially concerning US-China trade relations.