Advanced nonwovens are a high-tech success story, as companies search for new margins and applications away from the established commodity nonwovens sector. What developments can be expected in this area? What is the potential for growth for advanced?

GTTES 2015, organised by the India-ITME Society at the Bombay Exhibition Centre for three days starting January 20, 2015, set a new trend in exhibition by focusing on the Asian market, with about 250 exhibitors touting their wares.

The readymade garment industry is facing a huge payment defaults by bulk buyers with the prolonged economic slowdown affecting retail sales. The Clothing Manufacturers Association of India (CMAI) has expanded its arbitration committee to 15 members from four, so that it can provide representation to every sector of the industry.

The Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) Group has published a Research List, a companion piece to the recently published Manufacturing Restricted Substances List (MRSL).

The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council (Texprocil) has urged the Centre to reduce the level of value-addition and simplify the process to get duty concessions under the Advance Licensing Scheme.

A New Year is the right time to explore new horizons. To highlight new developments and showcase new offerings to a market that is poised for substantial growth in future. This is why Screen Print Vietnam 2015 will make its debut from July 30 to August 1, 2015 at Saigon Exhibition Convention Center (SECC).

An amount of Rs 288.4 crore have been released for setting up of textile parks in the country during the last three years,´ Textiles Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar said.

Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) has sold 1,100 bales on the first day of auction creating international curiosity very recently.

Tunisia is swelling the ranks of manufacturers of fashion products at Apparel Sourcing Paris for the first time. Also for the first time, this trade fair for manufacturers of men’s, women’s and children’s ready-to-wear clothes is thus offering a short circuit, a fast alternative and multiple specific skills, for which some visitors have been hungering.