The global technical textile industry was estimated to be worth $142 billion in 2015 and is expected to reach $165 billion by 2019. The vast majority of technical textiles come from APAC, which accounts for a share of almost half of the global technical textiles market.

Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh city is poised to build large centres for designing fashion, trading garments, textile material and accessories to become the country’s future garment, textile material and accessory hub.

Bangladesh’s cotton import is expected to touch 7.1 million bales in 2017-18, further consolidating its position as the world’s largest importer of the fibre, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.

E-commerce player Shopclues has joined hands with the Uttar Pradesh’s MSME Development Institute to impart training on online selling to traditional weavers and artisans in Varanasi.

The Indian Road Congress (IRC) has accepted jute as geo-textile for using in building of roads, which could be a major boost to West Bengal’s jute industry that employs lakhs of workers.

A team of US scientists has used improved coating method to develop chemical warfare protective nonwoven fabric. Collaborators from Edgewood Chemical Biological Center of the U.S. Army and North Carolina State University have deposited zirconium based metal-organic-framework (MOF) material using refined method.

ColorJet India Ltd, India’s largest manufacturer of digital printers, will now display the TXF at Heimtextil exhibition, which runs from June 20-22, 2017 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.