MARKET & ECONOMY
The Cotton Advisory Board CAB has estimated cotton production for this season (October 2017 to September 2018) to be 370 lakh bales.
Arvind would invest Rs 1,500 crore in three years to increase its garment making capacity from fabric by six fold to meet the rising demand for branded apparel and fashion garments, a senior executive told.
Hans Wroblowski, Area Sales Director and Head of Product Management for Denim at Monforts, proposes some positive measures for keeping a step ahead in textile manufacturing with Industry 4.0.
Grasim Industries Limited bagged the Dun & Bradstreet Corporate Award 2018 for its stellar performance in the textile sector. The Dun & Bradstreet Corporate Awards recognise outstanding Indian corporates.
Clariant, a world leader in speciality chemicals, and Beijing Tiangang Auxiliary Co, Ltd (Tiangang), have conducted a groundbreaking ceremony in Cangzhou (China), just over 200 km south of Beijing.
The Ready-Made Garments Export Council (RMGEC) announced recently that exports of the sector increased by 12 per cent during the first five months of the current year to reach $645 million, compared with $575 million during the same period in 2017.
The sixth combined ITMA ASIA + CITME exhibition is gearing up for another huge showcase in Shanghai, China. It is expected to attract a trade visitorship of around 100,000 from around the world.
India and Bangladesh are working on dismantling non-tariff and para-tariff barriers and could renew economic engagements, high commissioner of Bangladesh to India Syed Muazzem Ali recently said at a seminar in New Delhi jointly organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and the Bangladesh High Commission.
Are you feeling lazy to get up and switch off TV or fans? A new invention by Chinese researchers has a way out. Just swipe your finger on your wristband made from a new type of electronic textile (e-textile), according to a report in the ?ACS Nano? journal published by the American Chemical Society (ACS).