MARKET & ECONOMY​

Presented for the first time at the Fashion Hub – Spazio Cavallerizze, the concept shoe created exclusively to complete the outfits of the new collection by Tiziano Guardini, a designer who has made sustainability the distinctive feature of his ultra-original creations.

LANXESS India Private Limited, a subsidiary of leading global speciality chemicals company LANXESS, has continued its association with Teach For India, which promotes the need for quality education throughout the country.

The OEKO-TEX® Association has published the next round of findings from “The Key To Confidence: Consumers and Textile Sustainability—Attitudes, Changing Behaviors, and Outlooks” focused on millennials and parents.

Intimasia 2018 (Kochi) Asia’s exclusive fashion trade show dedicated to lingerie and intimate wear, will be held from March 8 to 10, 2018 at Adlux International Conventional Centre, Kochi. INTIMASIA (KOCHI) debuts in one of the fastest growing sector of the apparel industry in India, the most promising consumer segment, an arena that has recently not only increased in the volume of sales but also in the value.

Indian Textiles Minister Smriti Irani recently announced a proposal to jointly set up a yarn depot with the Uttar Pradesh government to give a further boost to the textile sector in the State, which garnered proposals worth Rs 7,000 crore in the run-up to the two day investors’ summit that concluded in state capital Lucknow on February 22.

SSM (Scharer Schweiter Mettler AG), Switzerland’s leading supplier of precision winding machines in the fields of dyeing, weaving, and sewing thread preparation, is set to show its latest applications at ITM 2018, the 34th international textile machinery exhibition, to be held from April 14 to 17, 2018, in Istanbul, Turkey, in hall 3, booth 301A and 313A.

The Raymond Group, under JK Investors (Bombay) Ltd, signed pacts worth Rs 425 crore with the government of Maharashtra. This would be to set up residential complex, commercial amenities, school project and sport complex in Nandgaon Peth, Amravati, the group said in a statement.

As a world-leading trade fair for home and contract textiles, Heimtextil will present a fundamentally revised concept from 8-11 January 2019 – with more floor space, all kinds of furnishing inspiration and new synergies for buyers.