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Ginning is vital to maintain good cotton fibre quality and avoid contamination. Two cotton ginning industry leaders visited the Nonwovens and Advanced Cotton Laboratory at Texas Tech University to discuss latest developments in cotton fibre quality.

All is not well on the cotton front! Fall in production and acreage, and wild fluctuations in the prices beginning late last year have dampened the spirit of the industry. On the farm front, ravages of bollworm have added to the woes of the suppliers.

Pratibha Syntex is a vertically integrated sustainability-oriented textile conglomerate, which was incepted in the year 1995 as a spinning unit. Today, the company has state-of-the-art spinning, modern knitting, resource efficient dye house and printing, and world-class garment manufacturing facilities.

Due to uncertainties in the world economy and trading market, the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) Secretariat has revised its global consumption forecast for 2018/19 downward to 27.5 million tonnes.

COTTON USA will show the global home textile industry WHAT’S NEW IN COTTON, including new innovative technologies to drive sales growth, at its booth in Hall 12.0 / Stand C 71 at Heimtextil in Frankfurt, Germany, from 8-11 January 2019.