Tirupur, India´s biggest cotton knitting textile hub, is foraying in to manmade fibre apparels to beat the lean season they encounter in exports of knitted cotton garments.

Indian cotton crop to reach 40 million bales (170 kg each) in the new season beginning in October 2014. Speaking in the just concluded Indian Cotton Federation (ICF) conference in Coimbatore,

Dow Corning, a successful pioneer in promoting the use of silicones for various applications, is upbeat about the Indian market, and with the intention of staying closer to the market needs of the Indian sectors, has launched its third largest application development centre globally at Powai in Mumbai.

DTG 2014´, the 11th Dhaka Int´l Textile & Garment Machinery Exhibition was organised jointly by the Bangladesh Textile Mills Association and Yorkers Trade & Marketing Service Co. Ltd., which received a tremendous response of 850 exhibitors from 31 countries occupying 1,020 booths.

Researchers at Lubbock, Texas-based Texas Tech University (TTU) have engineered a absorbent mat using low-grade cotton that can collect up to 50 times its own weight in oil.

The Cotton LEADS´ programme, launched in October of 2013, has attained more than 200 partners across the global cotton textile supply chain. Cotton LEADS, a joint programme established by Australian and U.S. cotton industries, advocates

Saurer inaugurated a state-of-the-art service centre at Mohali, near Chandigarh. The inauguration of the service centre is to enhance customer support in the Chandigarh region.