The Cotton Association of India (CAI) has lowered its estimate of the cotton crop for the 2018-19 season beginning from October 1, 2018, to 343.25 lakh bales of 170 kg each. The CAI’s October estimate is lower by 4.75 lakh bales than 348 lakh bales announced at the Second Domestic Conference for 2018 held on October 6, 2018 in Aurangabad. The CAI has revised downwards the crop estimate for Gujarat by 2 lakh bales, Maharashtra by 1 lakh bales, Karnataka by 1 lakh bales and Orissa by 75,000 com

A mere 11.68 per cent of investments pledged in the handlooms and handicrafts sector during the first Global Investors Meet (GIM) in India’s Tamil Nadu state in 2015 has materialised till now, state government statistics show. As on September 19, the department concerned had managed to bring in investments worth ₹228.39 crore, creating over 1,500 jobs. Procuring land for some projects was tedious and obtaining clearances from certain departments was a ‘nightmare’, a leading South India

Courtesy: AmazonAmazon is opening a new fulfillment centre in Beaumont, continuing innovation in the Inland Empire. This will create more than 1,000 jobs. The facility will join Amazon’s other Inland Empire fulfillment facilities in Eastvale, Moreno Valley, Redlands, Rialto, Riverside and San Bernardino, where it launched its first California fulfillment centre in 2012. “The Inland Empire has been a great place to do business: serve customers, create jobs, and raise the bar on innovative tec

The Synthetic & Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council (SRTEPC) has lauded the historic Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Support and Outreach programme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently. As part of the programme, Modi unveiled 12 key initiatives which will help the growth, expansion and facilitation of MSMEs across the country. Welcoming the initiative of the Union Government, SRTEPC chairman Narain Aggarwal said that the various announcements and deliverables f

Bangladesh’s minimum wage board, formed to review the wages for readymade garment (RMG) workers, has finalised its proposal setting Tk 8,000 as minimum monthly wage ignoring all objections of the trade union federations and factory owners. The wage might not change and would be applicable from December this year, state minister for labour Md Mujibul Haque said. The gazette notification recommending the wage for the lowest-grade workers was published on October 8, seeking written objections a

Courtesy: C&AC&A has been honoured by Textile Exchange for leadership in preferred fibres and materials strategy, textile supply chain management, material consumption, and consumer engagement. It has been placed in the prestigious ‘Leaders Circle’ of the apparel industry by the 2018 Textile Exchange Preferred Fibre and Material Benchmark Annual Insights Report. “We welcome the new approach that Textile Exchange is taking in moving from ranking brands solely on volume toward recognis

Courtesy: Neonyt Minimising fashion industry’s impact on water consumption and contamination will be the focus of Neonyt and Fashionsustain, both of which are to be held between January 15 and January 17, 2019 during Berlin Fashion Week at Berlin. Approaches that lead to fashion industry making an active contribution to preserving the vital resource will also be discussed. Neonyt is the global hub for fashion, sustainability and innovation. The international conference format Fashionsustain

Courtesy: Mountain Khakis Towards reducing environmental woes, Mountain Khakis with its suppliers has come out with a new yarn and an insulation - SeaWool Yarn and SeaWool Insulation – which have been produced with superior materials that are made from crushed oyster shells and blended with post-consumer recycled Polyfill (Insulation) or post-consumer recycled PET bottles (Yarn). SeaWool combats the environmental and visual issues occurring on the beaches of Asian countries and is a win-win

Courtesy: ATSM Following the success of its inaugural show past spring, Apparel Textile Sourcing Miami (ATSM) – the largest apparel and textile sourcing show in the Southern US and Latin America – will have its second edition in Miami during May 20–22, 2019, in expanded form. The show will host more than 300 international and domestic manufacturing companies. Produced by JP Communications, publishers of TopTenWholesale.com and Manufacturer.com, ATSM 2019 – which has attracted the attentio

The 7th Euratex Convention, organised on 24 October in Ontinyent, Valencia, Spain, by the Consejo Intertextil Espanol (CIE), gathered over 200 participants from the textiles and apparel sector, as well as prominent figures from regional and national representations. Hosted for the first time in Spain, the event was an opportunity to exchange views and present approaches for regional collaboration, to encourage the development and modernization of the fashion and textile industries. The 7th