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Related Keywords: cotton prices, Pakistan cotton industry

Prices remained firm over continued buying from indigent spinners and a stable conditions prevailed on the cotton market on Wednesday. But around quality lint, much of activity was witnessed as millers were keen to reload their stock at current prices.

Thinning arrivals of phutti (seed cotton) is a major cause of concern for stakeholders who feel that larger quantity of cotton would have to be imported to meet the domestic demand, as there is already acute shortage of quality lint in the market.

Related Keywords: cotton export, Indian cotton, Pakistani traders

On one hand Indian exports jeopardize over China unwinding its inventory at the same time Pakistan brings smile on cotton farmers in Maharashtra, as they have started buying loads of cotton from them. In fact, not just Maharashtra, Pakistan is buying cotton from Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh as well.

Due to shortfall of cotton in Pakistan; they are buying it in huge quantities from India, particularly from states like Maharashtra. Also, Indian cotton is not only cheaper but of superior quality. Moreover sourcing the fibre from India reduces transportation costs.

Related Keywords: Chinese cotton inventory, Indian cotton exports, raw cotton

India cotton exports at jeopardy with China unwinding its inventory built over the last three years, and support growers through a subsidy programme. Moreover its plans to sell raw cotton cheap in the domestic market to cut down its inventories may further hit exports from India.

As on January 22, about 4.01 lakh tonnes of cotton found their way into the textile mills and garment factories due to cheap selling of raw cotton, according to the Chinese Government’s cotton news website cncotton.com,

Related Keywords: Ghana textile industry, textile regulation

Unfair competition from cheap imported pirated goods is collapsing the textile industry in the country. Ministry of Trade and Industry Ghana, on a national movement against trade in pirated Ghanaian textiles is aiming at finding solutions to the major crises faced by the country’s textile industry.

Meanwhile, a member of the task force and the vetting committee on the importation of African Textile Designs, Mr Appiah Donyina, said that the taskforce would embark on various sensitization exercises to educate people on the difference between genuine and pirated textiles.

Related Keywords: Integrated textile park, Textile Industry

Erode Textile Mall Ltd is going good on its vision by launching Tex Valley, largest textile mall in South India and Asia's Iconic B2B trading centre. The project, a PPP initiative, is being supported by the Ministry of Textiles , Government of India under its Comprehensive Power Loom Cluster Development Scheme (CPCDS) that aims at bridging the Infrastructural gap of the Textile Industry in India.

Related Keywords: Eastman Chemical, microfiber, polyethylene terephthalate

Eastman Chemical Co., Kingsport, Tenn., is enhancing its platform capability with a 4.5-micron-diameter polyethylene terephthalate (PET) microfiber, specifically designed for wetlaid processing to its Cyphrex microfiber product line. This addition to the family of Eastman Cyphrex™ microfibers comes less than a year after the successful launch in April 2013 of its commercially available 2.5-micron diameter microfiber.

Related Keywords: Assocham, Indian textile industry, TUFS

A study by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) reveals that textile sector in India is under crises with Tamil Nadu accounted for 54 per cent of the non-operative mills, followed by Gujarat (16 per cent), Maharashtra (10 per cent), Punjab (four per cent) and Uttar Pradesh (three per cent). The study was based on a comparative analysis between FY00-01 and FY10-11 and an annual survey by the statistics and programme implementation ministry.

Related Keywords: contemporary textile art, Miniartextil

The “Miniartextil” an exhibition of contemporary art shows the best in textile art, with a revolutionary approach to the textile heritage and its materials. This is the first time Venice hosted “Miniartextil”, the 23th edition dedicated to “Eros”.

It was opened on January 11th, in Palazzo Mocenigo, Italy, and after the closing day on February 14, 2014, the exhibition will continue to other parts in the world including Paris.

Related Keywords: Cotton Association of India, cotton output

The Cotton Association of India (CAI) had marked the cotton production at 376 lakh bales of 170 kg each in its December estimate for the current marketing year. But having noticed that the acreage of cotton has come down to about 118 lakh hectares in the current season as compared to 120 lakh hectares last season, the Cotton industry body CAI has lowered marginally its production forecast of the commodity to 374 lakh bales for the current marketing year.

Related Keywords: fine wool market, wool

This week about 10,000 bales of Tasmanian wool is up for auction in Melbourne. Morover, the sales happen together with a lot of drought-affected fleece flooding the fine wool market said, Roberts’s wool manager, Alistair Calvert.

A promising start to spring turned into an early summer and a long dry autumn. A patchy break occurred in April, but with no further rain until June, it will be a long winter with further feeding required. Tasmanian wool growers are becoming disillusioned caught in the fall out of the deepening drought in Queensland and New South Wales.