Russia’s first-ever international intimate wear trade fair ‘Lingerie Expo’ will take place in Moscow from February 5 to 8, 2013. The complete B2B event would act as a networking hub for leading innerwear manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers and retailers. Top companies from Russia, CIS, Baltic States and Europe, specializing in the manufacture and sale of beachwear, swimwear, hosiery and accessories would showcase their newest product ranges at the event. Professional seminars discu

For the first time, a silicon-based optical fiber with solar-cell capabilities has been developed that has been shown to be scalable to many meters in length. The research opens the door to the possibility of weaving together solar-cell silicon wires to create flexible, curved or twisted solar fabrics. The findings by an international team of chemists, physicists and engineers, led by John Badding, a professor of chemistry at Penn State, will be posted by the journal Advanced Materials in an

A waterway that runs through a few villages in Bhavani block of Erode district turned dark red on Thursday. Villagers said the water in the channel, which ends in River Bhavani, became blood-like overnight. Annoyed, a few of them managed to track down the source of the pollutant: an unauthorised textile processing unit had dumped huge amount of untreated, toxic effluents into the channel on Wednesday night. Several other waterways in other parts of Bhavani block also change colour often

A high-powered 40-member delegation of the apparel sector of China is now visiting Bangladesh to explore possibility of shifting their production location. They have expressed happiness after visiting some factories and hoped that they could start a win-win business for both the countries soon. ‘We are interested to shifting our production location to Bangladesh as China is rapidly moving to high-tech industry,’ said China National Textile and Apparel Council deputy director Lin Yunfeng at

Wal-Mart Stores Inc, which has acknowledged one of its suppliers used the Bangladesh factory where more than 100 people died in a November 24 blaze, worked with at least five suppliers there this year, documents found in the ruins by a labour-rights group show. Wal-Mart said the Tazreen factory near Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital, was no longer authorised to produce merchandise for the company and that it had cut ties with one supplier that kept using the facility. It's not clear if any other supp

Sustainability enjoys an interesting position in today’s fashion industry. It has become a ubiquitous and especially vague term used by designers, brands, marketing departments and manufacturers. But what does it actually mean? And, more importantly, is it possible? The Kingpins Show, the international boutique denim sourcing trade show founded in 2004, invited a group of industry experts in the fiber / fabric / seed / farming and sourcing industries to hold a no-holds-barred conversation on

China Textile City Fabric Market (2012-12-10)Unit: yuan/m Collector: Jiang Jianren Item Width CM Specification/Weight（meter） Wholesale Price：yuan/meter T/R Double oblique surrounded-elastic 150 500 18．50 Wool/viscose cloth 150 520 27．50 Wool/viscose cloth 150 16S×12S 108×56 15．00 T/R shadow surrounded-elastic 150 500 18．50 Wool/Viscose mix-colored swallow gird cloth

OC Oerlikon Corp, the world's largest maker of textile machinery, agreed to sell its natural fibers and textile-components units to China's Jinsheng Group as part the biggest sale yet organized by Michael Buscher, Oerlikon's chief executive officer . The units were the source of a quarter of Oerlikon's 4.2 billion Swiss francs ($4.53 billion) in revenue in 2011, have an enterprise value of 650 million Swiss francs and employ 3,800 people. Source: China Daily

Cotton Council International (CCI) and Cotton Incorporated, in cooperation with USDA, jointly presented the seventh biennial Sourcing USA Summit in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. The event, held on November 12-16, attracted 400 delegates from 23 countries, including representatives from the cotton industry’s top tier textile manufacturers, merchant ts along with companies and organizations integral to the global cotton supply chain. Opening remarks by National Cotton Council (NCC) Chairman

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