One Million Liters initiative has been launched today as part of the opening of KingPins Show in Amsterdam, which is one of the most important global events in denim. The campaign’s core mission is to raise awareness by showing how changing one part of the production or manufacturing process can speed up change towards a more sustainable textile industry.
Textiles has been a tough business in the U.S. for a long time. Nobody knows that better than the Zaslow family. So their newest project, a direct-to-consumer (D2C) line of organic cotton bedding called American Blossom Linens, is something to keep a close eye on.
Taiwan’s textile industry is attracting more and more international attention. Global brands such as Nike, Adidas, Uniqlo, etc. use functional fabrics from Taiwan, 70% of the international market, which makes the country one of the best textile manufacture suppliers in the world. As well as the talent, experience and the healthy relationship with big global manufacturers, there’s a big effort in Taiwan’s textile machinery supply chain.
Schoeller announced the availability of its heatable E-soft-shell, which won the DesignPrize Switzerland 2017/2018 in the textiles category, most recently. Bio-technologies and electronics in textiles -Schoeller’s innovations include its c_change membrane technology, as well as the NanoSphere, coldblack and corkshell technologies. 3XDRY Bio and ecorepel Bio, the new PFC-free technologies based on renewable raw materials, were first introduced to customers in 2016.
The sixth edition of ITMA ASIA + CITME has received extremely strong support from both domestic and international textile machinery manufacturers. With six months still to go before the combined event, ITMA ASIA + CITME 2018 is heading for another successful showing.Over 1,600 textile machinery manufacturers have applied to exhibit at the sixth combined show, snapping up all of the available 170,000 square metres gross of exhibition space to showcase state-of-the-art machinery, as well as products that boost automation and energy-saving features.
Trident Limited (Trident) the flagship company of TridentGroup, a USD 1 billion Indian business conglomerate and a global player has received the Sustainable Textile Production (STeP) certification for both its home textiles plants located at Dhaula, Punjab & Budhni, Madhya Pradesh.
The certification covers the weaving, dyeing & making up processes for Trident’s terry towelling and bed linen manufacturing facilities.
The Turkish Ministry of Economy has announced the list of the procurement committee supports for the year of 2018. The ITM 2018 Exhibition, which will be organized between April 14-17 and in which the heart of the textile industry will beat, is included on the list.
The head of the State Investment Committee of the Republic, Azim Ahmedkhadzhayev announced it at the first Uzbek-Korean meeting on economic cooperation issues on February 13 announced that Uzbekistan and South Korea plan to launch a modern textile techno park in Tashkent in September.
The new facility will be created on the territory of the Tashkent Institute of Textile and Light Industry and the project is financed through grant funds provided within official development assistance program of the Korean government.
The Bangladesh government plans to set up a textile village through a public private partnership (PPP) initiative on 28 acres of land belonging to Tangail Cotton Mills under Bangladesh Textile Mills Corporation (BTMC).
The cabinet committee on economic affairs recently approved in principle Ramisa's proposal as an unsolicited bidder which the PPP authority scrutinized Ramisa's proposal and it was sent from the cabinet committee on that basis.
Tirupur Exporters Association (TEA), NIFT-TEA Knitwear Fashion Institute, and the Indian Texpreneurs Federation is organizing a three day Textile Research Conclave on February 10 under the support of Union Ministry of Textiles in the knitwear hub of India, Tirupur.
The objective of the event is to encourage product diversification, productivity, and sustainability in textile clusters, said TEA president Raja Shanmugam.
