Demand for carpets and rugs in India is forecast to grow 5.9 per cent per year to 120 million square meters in 2021, expanding faster than any other major nation worldwide. Growth will be driven by strong gains in construction activity, expanding the size of the country’s building stock.

The 11th edition of the Textile Pinnacle (Texpin) by the Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA) will focus on ‘Textile Industry-Towards 2020’.

Picanol India, an international group specialised in the development, production, and sale of weaving machines, engineered casting solutions and custom-made controllers, is set to participate for the fourth time at TechTextil, a leading technical textile expo, from September 13-15, 2017 in Mumbai.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Quality Assurance Laboratory is the latest laboratory to be certified under ICA Bremen International Laboratory Certification Scheme.

Kornit Digital has received SGIA’s prestigious 2017 Product of the Year Award for the Kornit Vulcan, in the category “Direct-to-garment printers (Color Shirt – Not White)”. The Vulcan will be on display at the 2017 SGIA Expo in New Orleans, in Kornit’s booth # 1617.

Nebraska researcher Yiqi Yang is using the by-products of sorghum as a colorant for textiles. The Charles Bessey Professor of biological systems engineering and of texiles, merchandising and fashion design is using wool to start his research, but hopes that in the future sorghum can be used on other textiles and throughout many industries.

The United States of America is asking the UN to banning the exports of North Korean textiles and freezing the assets of leader Kim Jong Un.