Pakistan’s textile and clothing exports recorded a meagre 0.68 per cent year-on-year surge to $1.139 billion in December 2018, taking the six-month (July-December FY19) exports to $6.645 billion up 0.06 per cent.

Turkey’s textile industry foresees weaker demand in the domestic market as rising costs will push prices higher, but hopes to boost exports this year.

The shifting of polluting textile dyeing and printing mills outside the city limits could be a reality with the state government approving specified shifting zones for the industrial units with the addition of few provisions in the General Development Control Regulation (GDCR).

Kymira has developed a cardiac monitoring t-shirt. The garment wirelessly transmits the wearer’s heart rhythm to a mobile device and can accurately identify an unusual heart rhythm that could cause a sudden cardiac arrest.

Datacolor has partnered with Color Solutions International (CSI), a leading provider of colour standards and colour communication tools for the textile industry.

Mahlo and its agency Toyo Machinery will participate in the Converting Technology Exhibition (Convertech), to be held from January 30 to February 1, 2019, in Tokyo, Japan, in booth 3L-14, in East Hall 3.

SUTERA just announced the development of its new textile collection solution that aims to prevent accidents and deaths associated with the use of traditional clothing collection bins.

Manufacturers of water-based screen-printing inks, MagnaColours will launch a brand-new initiative at the upcoming ISS Long Beach exhibition.

Overall, there will be fifteen Italian textile companies exhibiting in a common space at the forthcoming Colombiatex, all ACIMIT associated members.