The wide format industry is changing, and the business owners who are most optimistic about the future are those who understand that they need to identify ways to add new applications or acquire new customers.

Global warming´ and ´carbon footprint´ are buzzwords now. Their importance and the consequential long-term devastating effects of ´Climate Change´ on the environment, habitat and even the existence of our mother Earth are widely discussed. This warming of atmospheric temperature is attributed to the emission of green house gases (GHG)´carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and fluorocarbons are the major contributors

The Ministry of Textiles and the Man-Made Textile Research Association (MANTRA) have joined hands to encourage the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in south Gujarat.

Colorjet India Ltd, a leading manufacturer of digital inkjet textile printers will showcase the live demonstration of its latest grand format direct to fabric printer for customised home furnishing textiles – Fabjet Grand at GTE 2015, which starts from February 28, 2015 in NSIC Ground, Okhla, New Delhi in Hall E ? stall no E5.

The CMAI?s Apparel Index for the third quarter, FY2014-15 from October to December 2014, with overall Apparel Index value up at 5.01, once again revealed the low sentiment among small brands, those with turnovers of Rs 10 to 25 crore.

Saurabh Patel, Finance Minister, has announced in Budget 2015-16 that the Government of Gujarat will impose five per cent tax on technical textiles. The proposal to impose tax on technical textiles will bring additional tax revenue of approximately Rs 80 crore, Patel said.

In Northern France, textiles are part of our DNA?but yesterday?s mills have given way to cutting-edge organizations like the European Centre for Innovative Textiles (CETI) and its Innotex incubator. The result? Ideal growing conditions for the textile industry?s most innovative start-ups.