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Related Keywords: eco fabric, Interstoff Asia Essential, textile and clothin industry, trade fair

Interstoff Asia Essential, one of Asia's leading trade fairs for the textile and clothing industry, will return to Hong Kong offering the preeminent platform for discovering the latest fashionable, functional and eco fabrics, as well as the trends for the upcoming seasons through fashion show, trend forum and seminars.
 
The show’s trend forum will feature a ‘sense of the earth’ theme – a tribute to natural materials.
 

Related Keywords: bio polymer chip, chemical industry, Ecodear brand, plant-based, polyester fibre, polyester yarn, sustainable textile drive, Toray

Toray, Osaka-based, an integrated chemical industry group developing its business in 25 countries and regions world wide, as part of its sustainable textiles drive this year it will move away from making 100 percent petroleum-derived polyester fibre and instead produce polyester made from ‘plant-based’ bio-polymer chip.

Toray has developed a lab-scale 100 percent bio-based polyester yarn, which will eventually be marketed under its ‘Ecodear’ brand when it completes commercialisation.

Related Keywords: consumption, Indian technical textile market, lifestyle, new trend, PHD chamber, textile and apparel market

The Indian technical textiles market has shown new trends due to the expansion of Indian market as the consumer spending is going through a fundamental shift. The increase in per capita income, strong demand for better lifestyle and high disposable income, have increased the per capita consumption in textiles and apparel market, benefiting the manufacturers, said Industry Affairs Committee of the PHD Chamber chairman Anil Khaitan.

Related Keywords: acquisition, digital printing, integarated solution, Investcorp, rotary screen, SPGPrints Group, textiles and graphic application

MANAMA: Investcorp, a Bahrain-based an alternative investment manager to acquire SPGPrints Group for an enterprise value of 240 million euros ($327m). SPGPrints established in 1947 is a leading global provider of integrated solutions for rotary screen and digital printing for textiles and graphic applications.
 
This will be Investcorp's fifth successful acquisition in 12 months.
 

Related Keywords: fashion fund, Korean textiole industry, KOTRA, Made in Korea clothes, sewing companies, textile companies

Clothes are well sold on the global stage with tags ‘Made in Korea' . But, unfortunately, there are few textile and sewing companies in Korea since most of them have moved their factories to China and Vietnam. This impelled Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency's (KOTRA) to come up with the concept of fashion fund.
 
Han Ki-won, commissioner of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency's (KOTRA) foreign investment promotion division, Invest Korea, is working on introducing a related fashion fund.
 

Related Keywords: cotton price, Ginners, ginning factories, Karachi Cotton Association, lint prices, Pakistan cotton market

Pakistan cotton market has been witnessing a continued downward trend in cotton prices throughout this week. Lint prices have been declining regularly and the cotton market is quite bearish. The ex-gin price as determined by the Karachi Cotton Association (KCA) lost Rs 300 per maund (37.32 Kgs) of grade III cotton.
 

Related Keywords: budget, domestic textile manufacturing sector, knitwear export sector, production cost, spandex yarn, Textile cluster, Tirupur textile industry

The growth of the industries in Tirupur has also faced many problems in its journey in terms of industrial organization, city infrastructure, natural raw material sources, workforce organization, etc., and the industry has taken efforts at times to solve the problems. Tirupur Exporters’ Association president A Sakthivel has welcomed the NDA government’s maiden Budget as it would benefit the domestic textile manufacturing sector.

Related Keywords: mega-cluster, Surat textile industry, textile value chain, Union budget

The union budget presented by the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the Parliament on Thursday wherein it was announced setting up of a mega-cluster in Surat for textiles has been welcomed by the Gujarat textile industry.
 
Of the six textile mega-clusters proposed to set up, one of it will be in Surat. Surat textile industry, which involves spinning, weaving, processing, garmenting and exports, employ around 1.5 lakh people directly. Market estimates put the industry turnover in the range of Rs. 40,000 crore –Rs 50,000 crore annually.
 

Related Keywords: budgetary allocation for textiles, import duty on ethylene, import duty on propylene, Union budget 2014-15, union budget and textile

Related Keywords: BJMC, golden fibre, holding company, jute mill, jute product

The Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) will not be transformed into a holding company. The proposal given by finance ministry for turning the BJMC into a holding company has been called off.
 
State Minister for Textiles and Jute Mirza Azam offered the clarification, quashing a finance ministry proposal, at the session dedicated to the textiles and jute ministry at of DCs’ (deputy commissioner) conference in Dhaka.