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Related Keywords: Chairman APTMA Punjab, Pakistan export of bed wear, Pakistan export of knitwear, Pakistan export of ready-made, Pakistan export of towels, S M Tanveer, Textile exports in Pakistan, textile unit in punjab

Textile exports in Pakistan have registered a growth of 14.54 percent in terms of value during February 2014, stated S M Tanveer Chairman APTMA Punjab. The growth was majorly led by impressive performance by knitwear, bed-wear, towels and ready-made garments in quantitative terms during the month.

Related Keywords: demand for yarn in Pakistan, spun yarn industry in Pakistan, textile industry in Pakistan, yarn demand from China, yarn production in Pakistan, Yarn spinners in Punjab

Yarn spinners in Punjab region are headed for another crisis which can force them to stop production or to close down factories to avoid losses. A mix of domestic and regional factors has been forcing many spinners to stop buying cotton and production until the market stabilises. This has led to unsold stock to pile up at ginners.

Regional issues that have made domestic yarn spinning unviable include slowing demand from Chinese demand for Pakistani yarn and a five per cent rebate allowed by India on its yarn exports since January.

Related Keywords: labour strike in Surat, Labour strike in textiles, powerlooms in surat, wage hike in powerlooms

As the labour strike enters the fifth day, output of unfinished fabrics in India’s biggest man-made fabric industry in Surat has been adversely impacted. The strike by over 10,000 powerloom workers in Bhestan industrial estate for wage hike has curtailed daily production of around 70 lakh metre of fabrics in over 1,000 powerloom units.

Related Keywords: Indian technicla textile

Indian technical textiles has huge potential is one of the fastest growing segment of the Indian economy. Technical textiles are an important part of the textile industry and its potential still largely untapped in India. With increase in disposable income, the consumption of technical textile is expected to increase atleast at 20 percent per annum in the next two years.

Related Keywords: Cotton and yarn market

The year 2014 has proven to be a downfall for the trade of cotton and other textiles. This trend has hit the international markets to a huge extent. The demand for yarn and cotton suddenly started dwindling this year. Yarn prices have receded. Sticky domestic cotton prices are elevated. The sales of these materials are unresponsive now- a – days. Profit margins are restrained.

Related Keywords: Odisha textile mill

Orissa and its people now find a way out of their misery as one of the major industries in Choudwar region, Odisha Textile Mills, has chances of opening once again.

The Odisha Textile Mills had a work force of over 3000, OTM was effective in providing clothing for much of India and it garnered several awards. But it had to shut down its operations in June 2001 owing to mishandling of company funds by the higher management.

Related Keywords: Pakistan cotton market

In the face of rising price trend on the world markets, Pakistan has not only decreased local cotton prices, but also had a bearish effect on Pakistani textile prices and their exports due to award of five percent additional subsidy by Indian government on export of cotton yarn both coarse and fine counts and enforcement of 25 percent regulatory duty on cotton yarn imports from Pakistan to India has resulted in huge imports of cotton yarn imports from India by Pakistani textile industry.

Related Keywords: Ethiopian textile sector

The Ethiopian textile and garment sector is under growing pressure to expand more rapidly with the Ethiopian Government setting ambitious goals for the industry. According to the Textile Industry Development Institute during the first half of the current budget year Ethiopia has secured over US$ 60 million revenue from export of textiles and garment. The revenue achieved exceeds the previous year's performance by US$ 15 million.

Related Keywords: Mozambique cotton production

Cotton production in Mozambique is set to rise this year, it may total 110,000 tons of cotton in 2013/14, which involves over 123,000 families in the north and centre of the country, at the time the number of producers is also likely to drop by 15 percent, due to cotton currently being sold at uncompetitive prices as compared to other cash crops such a tobacco or sunflowers, according to the National cotton institute.

Because of the reduction in producers, cotton production areas are projected to drop by 3.5 percent. In 2010 this crop occupied an area of 165,248 hectares.

Related Keywords: Ghana jute industry

The demand of jute has always been on the top list as it is used in the production of sacks and fibre bags used for packaging goods and commodities for export among others. Large scale production of the crop has however been limited largely to the Northern, Upper East, Upper West and parts of the Ashanti and Brong-Ahafo regions of Ghana . The contemporary importer of these jute bags is COCOBOD.