A proposed ASTM International standard test method is going to cover areas related to ribbon width, fineness, maturity, and micronaire of cotton fibres. The standard is developed by ASTM international textiles committee.

Danish retailer Bestseller and its investment platform Invest FWD have announced that they will be working with three new sustainable start-ups.

Kornit Digital Ltd. has announced the acquisition of all associated assets of Somerville, Massachusetts-based Voxel8.

CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) is working on re-purposed drugs and is trying to make Covaxin to combat COVID-19. Other than this, it is also doing innovative work to make comfortable face masks.

C Sekar and his team manually scrape and extract natural fibre from agricultural products such as banana stems, pineapple, aloe vera and hemp in a tin-roofed workshop in Anakaputhur, on the outskirts of Chennai.

According to the annual report of Welspun India for 2020-21, the company has set aside Rs 6 billion in the ongoing fiscal for completing expansion projects across its three business verticals.

According to N Rangasamy, Chief Minister, Puducherry, it is important the Anglo-French Textile (AFT) mills that are owned by the territorial government would be restarted as soon as possible under the PPP mode.