MARKET & ECONOMY​

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.

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.

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).