Nearly 500 tonnes of cotton was destroyed in fire at a ginning mill at Amminabhavi village near here on Sunday. The fire broke out at around 5.30 p.m. Fire service personnel took a long time to douse the fire. The cause of fire is yet to be ascertained. The police said that nearly 40 per cent of the cotton stored in the mill was reduced to ashes. The loss is estimated at Rs. 2 crore. Superintendent of Police Ravi Kumar Y.S. and Dharwad tahsildar Shivanand Bhajantri visited the spot. — St

The American Quilter’s Society, headquartered in Paducah, KY, showcases Pennsylvania’s quilt makers at its inaugural AQS QuiltWeek in Lancaster, PA, March 13 – 16, 2013. More than 15,000 participants will converge upon Lancaster to enjoy four days surrounded by the best in international quilt and textile artistry. A major celebration and centerpiece of the event recognizes the artistry of today’s quiltmakers in the AQS Quilt Contest. This year more than 200 quilters will compete for more than

Marian Watkins, the owner of MW Fiber Arts, loves the feeling of walking into a craft supply store and not knowing where to start. All of the color, texture and endless possibilities have been her favorite part of crafting supplies. Starting at a young age when she spent all of her hard earned lemonade stand money on beads and other crafting supplies at the local craft store. Today, Marian still has a passion for crafts, leading her to start MW Fiber Arts, an online fiber art supply company o

Apex apparel body AEPC today asked the government to reduce customs duty on manmade fibre and cotton fabrics to boost the garment export of the country. Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) Chairman A Sakthivel said that the move would help in doubling exports to $30 billion in the next three years. "In this regard, we have submitted a proposal for reducing the custom duty at a flat rate of 5 per cent on selected speciality manmade fibre and cotton fabrics," Sakthivel said in a statement he

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc., the leading developer of advanced spider silk based fiber technologies, announced that the first two stages of its Monster Silk pilot production program ("program") are running ahead of schedule and that both stages of the program are on track to meet or exceed the program's goals. The production capacity for the first two stages exceeds the Company's prior maximum capacities by a factor of four or five. The program is designed to be the basis of the Comp

Garment exports may touch $30 billion level in the next three years if government reduces import duty on synthetic fabrics to 5 per cent, Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) has said. "We have put up an ambitious plan for increasing garment exports to $30 billion in three years, provided import of speciality fabric, which is widely not available in the country, is allowed to be imported at five per cent customs duty," AEPC Chairman A Sakthivel said here. At present, import duty on synt

The export of jute sacks and bags witnessed a remarkable growth this year posting a 45.35 per cent growth in the first seven months over the same period in last fiscal. The exporters pointed out that the earning from jute bags and sacks registered remarkable growth because of increasing demand for the item in international markets. “The export earning grew from the sector because of a growing popularity of natural fibre made products abroad. Besides, the jute handicraft enjoys the government

Woven garment once again emerged as the country's biggest export-earning product, surpassing knitwear items during the first seven months of the current fiscal year of 2012-13. The sub-sector of the $ 19 billion clothing industry has made a great leap outshining the growth of knit products during the current fiscal year as its demand surged due to the GSP facility offered by the EU, industry people said. Export of woven garment fetched US$6.11 billion during the July-January of current fiscal

Industries Minister Dilip Barua Friday said setting up of no readymade garment (RMG) factory would be allowed in the country without having required building code and other safety measures. He was speaking at a meeting titled 'Multi-stakeholders Meeting to Ensure Safety and Build Positive Image of the Garment Industry of Bangladesh' as the chief guest. Geneva-based IndustriALL Global Union and IndustriAll Bangladesh Council organised the meeting at a city hotel. With IndustriALL Global Uni

Workers from the Kingsland Garment factory in Meanchey district protest in front of the US Embassy in downtown Phnom Penh in January 2013. Photograph: Vireak Mai/Phnom Penh Post The ongoing story of garment workers left jobless by company closures in late December is fast becoming A Tale of Two Factories: one group of workers has everything before it, the other has nothing. It’s this widening gulf between workers at Yung Wah Industrial and Kingsland Garment – accentuated by the government’