The Yarn Advisory Board estimates output would be 4,000 mn kg this year as compared to 3,400 mn kg last year. The projections of steady demand for cotton yarn by fabric and garment manufacturers are likely to revive the spinning industry. The Yarn Advisory Board estimates output would be 4,000 million kg this year as compared to 3,400 mn kg last year. It met yesterday in Mumbai and said production was rising due to bullish demand in the textile sector and export potential. In 2012-13, cotton y

China, the world's top cotton consumer, will start to sell its high-quality reserves of the fibre, which should spur purchases by textile mills after Beijing's stockpiling tightened domestic supplies, government officials said on Thursday. Aggressive sales by Beijing, which holds nearly 60 percent of global cotton stockpiles, could hurt world prices. ICE cotton fell over 1 percent on Thursday as US traders braced for the sale, which they feared may dampen demand for foreign fibre from mills in

Mustapha Ahmed, minister of state at Ghana's Presidency in charge of Development Authorities, has called on Turkish entrepreneurs to process and produce cotton in Ghana's fertile cotton fields. Following a meeting in Istanbul, Ahmed said his country lagged behind in modern agriculture, and called on Turkish businessmen to invest in agricultural sector in Ghana. "We are planning to boost our investments. Modern agriculture, power plants and construction of highways have a priority in investme

Bijoy GhoshGandhi, a farmer at Moranapalli, near Kuppam at his sericulture farm. He says silk worm prices have more than doubled in the last few months and hence making it more rewarding to cultivate mulberry as inter-crop. Photo : Bijoy Ghosh To go with Ravikumar and Swetha Kannan's report G. Gandhi, a farmer near Kuppam in Andhra Pradesh, is all smiles when he says silkworm cocoons fetch better prices in the market these days. Last week, Gandhi sold the cocoons, raw material for silk, at

A Canadian researcher has developed fabrics that can change colour and shape when you walk. Joanna Berzowska, professor and chair of the Department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University, has announced the creation of interactive electronic fabrics that harness power directly from the human body, store that energy, and then use it to change the garments’ visual properties. She explained that the animated garments made with these fabrics would change their colour and their sha

Cotton importers’ failure to pay suppliers is blamed on fluctuating prices on the international markets. Photo:amran hossain The International Cotton Association (ICA) has listed 91 companies from Bangladesh for failing to make payments to suppliers. The country ended up on top of the default list. The ICA updated its latest list of default companies on Tuesday. Among the South Asian textiles and garment producing nations, India is in the second position with 88 companies while Pakistan ha

Vietnam fetched US$7.7 billion from textile export to the U.S. last year and the value is expected to double once the nation signs the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement with the U.S., said Le Quoc An, consultant of the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (Vinatas). He was speaking at a seminar on further tapping the U.S. market in HCMC last Friday. Vietnam until 2001 exported some US$45 million worth of garment to the U.S. annually but the country’s apparel export stateside sho

Freudenberg Nonwovens, the world's leading nonwovens producer, will be exhibiting its wide range of products and technologies at IDEA 2013. This International Engineered Fabrics Conference & Expo will be held April 22 – 25, in Miami Beach, Florida. Several products and applications will be on display, including the newest sustainable material, Lutradur ECO made with REPREVE. Additionally, products from several major market segments including transportation, innovation, building and specia

The mill sector has hailed the Textile Ministry’s directive to the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) on offloading cotton to the domestic mills. The Southern India Mills Association Chairman S, Dinakaran has, in a statement issued here today, said that this move would help bring some stability in cotton prices. “The directive to CCI to offload 2.5 lakh bales to the domestic mills is a positive and proactive move by the Government. We welcome the decision,” he said. Source: Business Line .

TenCate Protective Fabrics in partnership with Al Sada GT&C of Kuwait has secured a major TenCate Tecasafe Plus order for the delivery of inherently flame-resistant fabric for use in fire officers uniforms in the Kuwait Fire Services Department. The TenCate material used will be used as station wear and during fire investigation processes. The Kuwait Fire Services Department (KFSD) embarked upon research to identify an inherently fire resistant fabric which could be used as a major compon