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Egypt has chalked out a plan to spend 23-24 billion Egyptian pounds (LE) on modernising the state-owned textile sector, according to the head of the Cotton and Textile Industries Holding Company (CTIHC) Ahmed Mostafa.

Egypt has chalked out a plan to spend 23-24 billion Egyptian pounds (LE) on modernising the state-owned textile sector, according to the head of the Cotton and Textile Industries Holding Company (CTIHC) Ahmed Mostafa.

Egypt has chalked out a plan to spend 23-24 billion Egyptian pounds (LE) on modernising the state-owned textile sector, according to the head of the Cotton and Textile Industries Holding Company (CTIHC) Ahmed Mostafa.

The Cotton + Corn programme in the US aims to produce footwear with “things that grow” in order to create sustainable products.

Researchers at the Department of Chemistry in Calicut University in Kerala have come up with a new approach to ‘size’ and ‘desize’ cotton and polyester yarns through a dry process using liquid and super critical carbon dioxide (scCO2).

Functional cotton that have comfort and properties of synthetic fibres are being developed. Cotton shirts that may need no iron, protection characteristics and enhanced comfort are some of the functional properties that are being engineered to make cotton a high-performance fibre.