Since the worldwide structural shift in the textile industry, only a handful of companies remain in the former textiles heartland of the Swabian Alb. One of these companies is the Albstadt-based underwear manufacturer Comazo GmbH Co. KG

Interstoff Asia Essential Autumn 2014 is set to return from 25-27 September to halls 5B & C of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The fair, attended by 174 exhibitors from Asia and Europe at the last autumn edition, will continue to feature

As part of the research project ´Absorber systems for the laser welding of textiles´, scientists at the Hohenstein Institute (B¦nnigheim) and the DWI Leibnitz Institute for Interactive Materials (Aachen) have developed new absorber systems

Baltic Fashion & Textile is being held from 16-18 October 2014 at Vilnius, Lithuania. The event is organised by UAB Lengvosrcs Pramones Centras and is being promoted by Comnet Exhibitions Pvt Ltd in India.

The SRTEPC has played a transforming role over the years in promoting exports of Indian Man-made fibre textiles. Exports of these items which were negligible in the 1960s, have grown substantially to touch Rs. 34,518 crores (US$5.75 billion) during 2013-14.

A double-digit growth in consumption is making Aditya Birla Group?s fibre division, Birla Cellulose to focus on the domestic market.

The existing exemption in OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 for a few selected products for solvent residues has been extended for 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP).

M&S announced that it would open 100 stores in India by 2016 instead of 86 as planned last year.

Retail in India is going places. The retail industry which started off from the Kirana shops many years ago now has stern competition from multi-brand retailers, many of whom are not of Indian origin.