The Lenzing Group was recently awarded the coveted “State Prize for Innovation”. Lenzing emerged as the winner with its project Lenzing Web Technology and thus received the highest recognition for particularly innovative achievements in Austria.

The Textiles Ministry is bringing to form a structure under which the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for technical textiles and manmade fibre (MMF) segment will roll out, Union Cabinet Minister, Smriti Irani said at an ASSOCHAM Foundation Week Programme recently.

The export of apparels from Myanmar have declined by 50 per cent in two months because of drop in demand from the European market the ministry of commerce stated in a news report.

The Ind-Ra report highlights the trends in the sub-segments of the textile sector, including cotton, man-made fibres (MMF), yarns and fabric with a focus on commodity prices, imports/exports, production and recent rating actions.

Xefco, in collaboration with Swiss textile innovator HeiQ, launches XViroblock, the world’s first thin-film antimicrobial copper surface treatment for textiles that exhibit significant viricidal activity against SARS-CoV-2 after only five minutes.

The readymade garment manufacturers and exporters of Tiruppur received an invitation from OS Manian, Minister of Handlooms and Textile, government of Tamil Nadu, to invest in the new Veda Textile Park.

The US Cotton Trust Protocol recently welcomed first 10 US cotton textile manufacturers – Buhler Quality Yarns, Cap Yarns, CCW, Contempora Fabrics, Cotswold Industries, Frontier Yarns, Hamrick Mills, Inman Mills, Parkdale, Swisstex Direct as members.