Pakistan’s textile exports had dipped by 4.46 percent in March amid global slowdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Haiti has decided to reopen its textile factories from April 20, Prime Minister Joseph Jouthe announced recently.

The Ahmedabad Textile Industry’s Research Association (ATIRA) recently announced that it has developed a filter cloth to make N99 masks in association with Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

To help fight the Covid-19 menace, Colorjet Group has started a campaign to help the government by encouraging its associates, customers and industry partners to contribute to the fund.

There could be as many as one crore job cuts in the textiles sector, which has been severely hit by the ongoing lockdown, if there is no support and revival package from the government, according to apparel industry body Clothing Manufacturers Association of India (CMAI)..

The Textile Ministry has procured 1,30,000 coverall suits from Indian producers amid a shortage of the protective gear being used by health care workers while treating coronavirus disease patients.

Vardhman Textiles has got permission from the concerned authorities in the States of Punjab for resumption of manufacturing operations of its spinning units situated at Malerkotla and Ludhiana subject to fulfillment of certain conditions.