The Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) offering helping hand to the South India based yarn makers to explore affordable land to build a yarn cluster in Gujarat and also assist them to build shift to the power abundant state of Gujarat, as the Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh based yarn makers are facing frequent power cuts, eating into the businesses.
Piura, coastal region in northern Peru during the upcoming cotton campaign have decided to plant cotton on more than 4,000 hectares of land to promote cultivation of cotton, especially in the Lower Piura territory of the region. They aim to restore the status of the region as one of the biggest cotton producers in the country
H&M, Swedish fashion giant plans to explore Sub-Saharan Africa and other areas in the region for the textile industry. According to Chief executive Karl-Johan Persson, H&M sees huge potential for production in Sub-Saharan Africa for the textile industry.
After placing test order in last autumn, they have started with small-scale production in Ethiopia and will see how it goes. However, it looks interesting.
They are looking at several African countries, like South Africa, said Persson, who praised the business climate in the region
Voith Paper is a division of the Voith Group and the leading partner to and pioneer in the paper industry introduced Voith’s TissueFlex XD press fabric for tissue production. It has very good saturation for maximum dewatering and it is produced with a lower caliper offering faster break-in times allowing the machine to reach higher productivity sooner. At the same time, TissueFlex XD has a resilient structure, so that the key properties of the fabric are maintained over a long period, the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.
Leading trade fair FIMAST (International Textile Machinery and Accessories Trade Show) will be opening its doors to the industry from 17-20 September in the city Brescia in Northern Italy, where it hopes to prove that the Italian and European hosiery machine building industry is still a dynamic force to be reckoned with and that the Brescia based exhibition is a viable and desirable alternative to FAST which ceased to exist after it was last held in 2005.
The Cotton Association of India last month had estimated the cotton crop output at 378.75 lakh bales which has been lowered marginally to 376 lakh bales (of 170 kg each) for the current season ending in September.
Crop output in the central region including Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh is expected to increase 19 per cent to 218 lakh bales against 183 lakh bales last year. In the North Zone comprising Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan, it will be down 15 per cent to 53 lakh bales (62 lakh bales).
At the New Zealand wool market, of the 18,100 bales on offer, 93 percent sold, compared to the last sale on 9th January the weighted indicator for the main currencies increased by 0.81 percent.
According to New Zealand Wool Services International Limited’s Marketing Executive, Mr Paul Steel, stronger New Zealand dollar, limited wool availability and renewed client interest combined to underpin the combined wool auction this week with practically all wool types increasing in value.
he Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has hold responsible the jute industry of making misleading statements on the decision taken by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA).
the Jute Packaging Materials Act (JPMA) of 1987 which was then again revived by the CCEA on November 28 according to which it is mandatory for the government procuring agencies to pack the entire food grains and sugar in jute bags.
The CCEA had allowed use of plastic bags, replacing jute bags for packing 80% sugar and 10% food grains produced in the country in 2013-14.
The South African wool market caught up well at the first sale of the new year, Cape Wools said on Wednesday. It saw a 13.5% increase on the opening sale and is up almost 6.1% on the corresponding sale last year.
Company spokesperson Lizelle Delport said that Cape Wools' Merino indicator softened by a marginal 1.4% to close the day at R115.67/kg (clean).
The local market seemed to follow the international trend, as the Australian market had also decreased by 1.3%.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade’s (MoIT) Africa, West Asia, and South Asia Market Department considers Bangladesh a market rich in potential, as Vietnam’s 2013 earnings from exports to Bangladesh increased to 42.3%, exceeding US$446 million.
Increasing exports will require Vietnamese businesses to familiarise themselves with the unique demands of Islamic consumers as an estimated 89.5% of Bangladeshi citizens identify as Muslim
