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The eight-day training programme—Cotton Classing & Testing—took place in Bremen, Germany from May 9-16 and was delivered by industry experts from ICA Bremen, and the Bremen Fibre Institute (FIBRE). The training concentrated purely on quality issues in raw cotton.

The eight-day training programme—Cotton Classing & Testing—that took place in Bremen, Germany from May 9-16, was delivered by industry experts from ICA Bremen, and the Bremen Fibre Institute (FIBRE).

Raw cotton exports from India plummeted by over 50 per cent in the 2014-15 cotton season (October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015).

Ninety Turkish cotton professionals attended the International Cotton Association´s (ICA) ´Raw Cotton Contracting´ training in Turkey last week (25 February), thanks to sponsorship from the Kahramanmaras Chamber of Commerce.

The exports of textiles and garments from Pakistan earned US$ 10.207 billion in the first nine months of fiscal year 2014-15 that began on July 1, 2014, according to the data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.

India is now the largest producer of raw cotton and second largest consumer. But still the country lags behind in many aspects, particularly the production of superfine cotton, which today is needed to produce premium cotton products.

Raw cotton often contains foreign objects, such as polypropylene scrap, or dirt. Before cotton fiber can be spun, the raw cotton must be sorted to remove any foreign particles and fibres.