MARKET & ECONOMY​

Cotton crop in Texas this season will be exceptional in terms of yield. Over 50 people representing different regions of Texas and the entire spectrum of the cotton industry that included producers, agricultural lenders,etc.

Consul Neowatt, the global Indian UPS company, has announced the launch of Falcon 7000M, a three-phase modular online UPS. With this launch, Consul Neowatt has become the first Indian company to join the select group of companies globally who have the capability to develop and manufacture modular UPS.

SSM showed their newest textile machines at ShanghaiTex for the first time. The Swiss based SSM Schärer Schweiter Mettler AG, the inventor of the electronic yarn traverse system, took part at the ShanghaiTex.

Tex Styles Ghana Limited, a producer of GTP and other woodin fabrics, has launched a new brand campaign for GTP with a purpose of reinforcing the brand promise of GTP, which is expressed as ‘Timeless Grace’. The purpose is also to strengthen its position as a leading textile manufacturer in Ghana. GTP is Africa’s leading textile and printing brand.

A Focussed Incubation Centre for Composites (FICC) was recently inaugurated at Ahmedabad Textile Industry’s Research Association (ATIRA). The centre is partly sponsored by the Union ministry of textiles to promote technical textiles.

The National Skill Development Council (NSDC) has trained 1,000 workers from across various mills in Tamil Nadu. The workers who completed training in last two months received certificates at a job mela oganised by the Indian Texpreneurs Federation (ITF).