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Related Keywords: Beaulieu International Group, carpet, cushion vinyl, finished floor covering, manufacturing facility, needle felt, textile company

Beaulieu International Group (B.I.G) a Belgian textile company holding a solid market position both in producing raw materials and intermediate goods and in offering an extensive range of perfectly finished floor coverings will build its U.S. headquarters and plans to set up a $250 million manufacturing facility in Cartersville in Bartow County that will create 350 jobs over the next five years.
 

Related Keywords: PFY, polyester filament yarn, Reliance Industries, RIL

Reliance Industries (RIL) recently has commissioned its new Polyester Filament Yarn (PFY) facility at Silvassa.

The entire production from this facility has been successfully placed in the domestic and international markets.

With the commissioning of this ultra-modern Polyester Filament Yarn Facility, Reliance’s total PFY capacity, including the Malaysian facilities, is in excess of 1.5 MMTPA.

This expansion further strengthens RIL’s position as the world’s largest producer of Polyester Fibre and Yarn.

Related Keywords: CEMATEX, international textile and garment machinery exhibition, ITMA 2014, latest technologies

ITMA 2015, the leading international textile and garment machinery exhibition, with more than 15 months to go before the exhibition opens in Milan, as over 95% of the 200,000 squares metres of space already sold out having set the deadline for submitting application of 4 July, which attracted over 1,300 applicants from 43 countries.

Related Keywords: chinese fabric import, Commerce Ministry, local textile producer, MNREGA, Textile Ministry, Weavers

Government to look at ways to check flow of imported Chinese fabric into India as it wants to encourage local textile producers. The Textile Ministry has put forward the issue of increasing Chinese textiles import with the Commerce Ministry with an urge to stop this, said Textiles Minister Santosh Gangwar.
 
Responding to supplementaries, he said that to protect the interests of weavers; government is toying with the idea of linking them with MNREGA which provides 100 days of guaranteed work to people in rural areas.
 

Related Keywords: 395 lakh bales, Cotton Association of India, cotton output, cotton supply, domestic consumption

Cotton crop is estimated at 395 lakh bales (170 kg each) in the ongoing season 2013-14 (started October 2013) mainly due to rise in yield against 388 bales estimated in June. as per the Cotton Association of India.
 
The arrivals up to June 30 were placed at 382.30 lakh bales and continue well into the off season. Arrivals in Gujarat that is India’s top cotton producer were the highest at 120 lakh bales, followed by Maharashtra at 84 lakh bales.
 

Related Keywords: ec0-friendly product, golden fiber, Indian jute industry, policy, solution and suggestion

To boost production and consumption of jute and keeping workers interest in mind, consensual and amicable solutions and suggestions have been called for in the areas of policy and implementation in the jute sector with a view to develop by Union Labour minister Narendra Singh Tomar, who met with the representatives from Textiles, Commerce and Industry and Finance ministries as well as different trade unions during the tripartite meeting.
 

Related Keywords: cotton bale, cotton crop, Cotton development board, cotton growing region, cotton sowing, farmer

Cotton sowing is almost half of the normal sowing which was done last year as farmer were able to completed sowing on some 45.2 lakh hectares of cotton growing region of the country as opposed to 92 lakh hectares last year, which is the worst situation ever for the cotton crop in the last five-six years, moreover due to delayed and scanty rainfall has caused anxious moments for farmers, said SM Kolkatkar, director, Cotton Development Board, Mumbai, and Directorate of Cotton Development.
 

Related Keywords: Asian competition, fabric industry, globalization, industrial loom maker, Italian fabric manufacturer, Italian textile industry, Itema

Italian fabric manufacturers have been struggling since globalization opened the sector to cheap Asian competition at the end of the 1990s. Though Italy's fabric industry has improved productivity in recent years, it has not been able to compete on wages.
 
This has put Italy behind two groups of competitors in recent years: high-tech, high-end competitors in countries such as Germany and the United States, and low-end producers in places like China, Bangladesh and Turkey.
 

Related Keywords: budgetary allocation for textile, handloom sector, import duty on ethylene, import duty on propylene, readymade garment, Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme, Textile budget, textile clusters, Textile Minister, TUFS, Union budget 2014-15

The Narendra Modi government, which has sought 60 months from the Indian electorate to bring good days, in its first budget exuded its intent to kick start the investment cycle to nurse India's ailing economy back to good health. Coming amid high expectations from the textile and garment industry, the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in his maiden Union Budget 2014-15, charmed the industry participants with an array of encouraging proposals.

Related Keywords: demand of jute bag, IJMA, Indian jute industry, June Packaging Material Act, jute bag order, Punjab state, Textile Ministry

The jute industry which was already going through a bad phase has taken a further hit due to the State not honouring its sourcing commitments this production season. The Minister of State for Textile (independent charge) Santosh Gangwar, will be holding talks with Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal to find out the state’s failure to place any orders for jute bags in June and July despite prior commitments.