The Better Cotton Standard System has decidedthat the Greek AGRO-2 Integrated Management Standards will equally run with theBetter Cotton Initiative(BCI)’sBetter Cotton Standard System (BCSS)from now onBeing Europe’s largest producer of cotton with more than 45,000 registered cotton farmers Greece is going to promote more sustainable Greek cotton cultivation. Which makes them able to sell their cotton as Better Cotton from the 2020-21 cotton season.Figure: BCI trains farmers covering all three p

Sixteen per cent of the Indian creative sector is facing permanent closure now, according to a new report by the British Council, the ArtX Company and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and freelance workforce who cater to large enterprises have been worst hit, says the report launched early this week.Pic: ShutterstockTwenty two per cent of the sector is projected to lose more than three-fourths of annual income.The dep

Bangladesh recently requested India to reconsider anti-dumping and anti-circumvention duties imposed on jute and jute cloth imports from the country, saying New Delhi should inform before imposing an export ban or restrictions on essential commodities. “Such detrimental measures dampened confidence of business and affected trade,” said Bangladesh commerce minister Tipu Munshi.Pic: ShutterstockBangladesh has closed all government-owned jute mills, Munshi told an India-Bangladesh Digital Conferenc

HeiQ and Xefco, Australian-based materials science and technology start-ups, have collaborated for the launch of XViroblock – a thin-film antimicrobial copper surface treatment for textiles.Image Courtesy: www.biospectrumasia.comThe development is aimed at reducing the activity against SARS-CoV-2 after only 5 minutes.The innovation has been tested in Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) where the studies revealed that the textiles finished with XViroblock inacti

Sulzer is working with H&M and Worn Again Technologies to develop technology for textile recycling. Sulzer and H&M Group are strategic partners of Worn Again Technologies. Sulzer will help towards circularity with a new technology to recycle textiles. The partners now plan to build a demonstration plant to scale-up this closed-loop recycling process.Pic: SulzerThe demonstration plant will have a planned output of 1’000 tons per year.Worn Again Technologies is an early stage technology co

The latest episode of "PreferredFabric fromTextile City -- Live Stream Series ofSuppliers"isgoing to be carried out from10:00-11:00a.m.on December 26th, 2020 (This Saturday).At that time,Yumafang Textile will show you Jacquard fabric and embroidery fabric.JinhaoCloth will show you TR fabric and knitted fabric.

The beautiful swirls of patterns and designs on that pretty fabric that found from the fabric store – are nothing but various methods of printing. Textile printing is the sequence of applying color on fabric in particular patterns and designs. It requires much effort to achieve precision and perfection and durable fast colors on the surface of fabrics. Some specialists believe that one-day innovative printing will replace the dyeing process. Sun printing is one of them. It is the easiest but ele

As a biodegradable fibre made from trees and plants (bamboo), viscose has the potential to b a sustainable alternative to oil-derived synthetics and water-hungry cotton. However, risks are associated with deforestation for souring of the raw material, the manufacturing of viscose uses a number of toxic chemicals to transform plant cellulose into viscose fibres.In this regard, viscose suppliers are trying hard to make considerable strides to eliminate endangered forest fibers from their feedstock

Tamil Nadu state handlooms and textiles minister O S Manian recently invited readymade garment makers and exporters in Tiruppur to invest in the new Veda Textile Park, promising immediate fulfilment of all basic requirements. The government has zeroed in on a 46.5-hectare plot at Ayakkaranpulam in Vedaranyam block in Nagapattinam district for the project.Pic: ShutterstockThe planned textile park, to be set up at ₹98.86 crore, would have 36 units—34 for readymade garment and two for knitwear. The

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