The China Filtration Society (CFS), China Nonwovens Technology Association (CNTA) and UBM China, together with EDANA, the leading global association serving the nonwovens and related industries, announced that FILTREX® Asia 2018 will take place alongside the 10th China Filtration & Separation Exhibition/7th Filtration & Separation Asia (FSA) in Shanghai in November 2018 and will be co-organised by the four partners.

The Indian Texpreneurs Federation has signed an agreement with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) to train 50,000 workers between January and December next year in 15 job roles in textile mills.

The Ministry of Textiles has introduced a dashboard for Integrated Skill Development Scheme (ISDS) hosted on the NIC cloud to bring more transparency into the system.

The Ministry of Textiles has launched B-Twill Supply Management and Requisition Tool (JUTE-SMART), an online portal to facilitate end to end transactions related to procurement of B-Twill sacking. It is an integrated platform for use by all the stakeholders to allow easy access to information, more transparency and ease of doing business for the jute sector.

At Heimtextil, Epson will demonstrate its most advanced range of digital textile printers developed to meet the professional textile market’s demand for flexible, cost-effective and sustainable production solutions.

Of the total €81 billion import of clothing from 28 countries to the European Union, 77 per cent is from Asia, which is almost double of what came out of Asia just 10 years ago. In the last 10 years, clothing import from the EU grew €32 billion with €30 billion coming from Asia alone.

Indian Texpreneurs Federation (ITF), an apex body of textiles mills in the region, has signed an MoU with National Skill Development Council (NSDC), to train 50,000 fresh workers in 15 job roles during 2017.

The Ghana textile industry is perhaps the most perfect example of how unbridled imports, piracy and dumping have negatively affected the economy.

A Chinese fibre manufacturer is opening a plant in South Carolina, Labon, plans to spend $3.1 million refurbishing a factory in Orangeburg, South Carolina.