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Related Keywords: Cotton Advisory Board, droughts, India, India looking overseas for cotton, on track to double cotton imports, production is expected to fall by twelve percent, this year due to winged pests, world largest producer of cotton

India, the world’s largest producer of cotton this year due to winged pests and droughts is on track to double its cotton imports. India is looking overseas for cotton as its own production is expected to fall by 12% to 33.8 million bales in the year ending Sept. 30, according to India’s Cotton Advisory Board, a body of government officials, growers, traders and exporters.

An Indian bale is about 374 pounds, smaller than the U.S. bale at roughly 500 pounds.

Related Keywords: 6 technology, BCF markets, fiber manufacturing plant, growing solution dyed nylon, in collaboration with equipment manufacturer, INVISTA, meet carpet fiber demands, offer sophisticated color families, rapidly respond to small-lot capability, specifically for solution dyed nylon 6, Truetzschler, undergoing USD thirty million expansion

INVISTA’s fiber manufacturing plant is undergoing a $30 million expansion in South Carolina which will enable the company to rapidly respond to small-lot capability specifically for solution dyed nylon 6,6 technology to meet carpet fiber demands.

Marc Ahrens, vice president of INVISTA’s specialty flooring business said that their mill customers and the design community rely on INVISTA to offer a palette of hundreds of solution-dyed nylon 6,6 colors for each of their unique design preferences.

Related Keywords: Designer Vaishali Shadangule, Handloom weavers, known for fusing western wear, open opportunity for entire community of Indian textile makers, present collection at the New York Fashion Week, showcase the brands new Spring Summer collection, titled And Quiet Flows the Thread, under the label Vaishali S, with traditional hand-crafted textiles

Designer Vaishali Shadangule known for fusing western wear with traditional hand-crafted textiles to present her collection at the New York Fashion Week for the very first time. The Designer is all set to showcase the brand's new Spring Summer 2017 collection aptly titled 'And Quiet Flows the Thread' under the label Vaishali S.

Showcasing its SS'17 collection at New York Fashion Week, on 8th September 2016 will be Vaishali S's first step towards building the bridge between India's century old hand weaving tradition and introducing it to the world, Shadangule said.

Related Keywords: challenges facing fashion industry, creating clothes for growing population, fashion innovators, Global Change Awards, H&M Foundation, ideas to make fashion more sustainable, improving its impact on environment, offering a million euro grant

The H&M Foundation’s Global Change Awards now in its second year take on one of the biggest challenges facing the fashion industry today – creating clothes for a growing population, while improving its impact on the environment. The foundation is offering a million euro grant for innovators with ideas about how to make fashion more sustainable.

Last year’s winning ideas include clothing made of citrus by-products, microbes that digest waste polyester and an online marketplace for textile leftovers.

Related Keywords: biggest networking platform, buyers, consisting of three expositions, Dhaka International Yarn and Fabric Show, Dye plus Chem Bangladesh Expo, emerging technologies of textile and garment industries, Four day international exhibition, manufacturers, showcasing latest developments, suppliers, Textech Bangladesh International Expo, yarn and fabric

A four-day international exhibition consisting of three expositions—the 17th Textech Bangladesh International Expo, the 10th Dhaka International Yarn & Fabric Show and the 25th Dye+Chem Bangladesh 2016 Expo opens in Dhaka showcasing the latest developments and emerging technologies of textile and garment industries.

Some 1,050 companies from 23 countries are participating in the fair that will run until September 3.

Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu inaugurated the exhibition, CEMS Global, the organizer, said in a statement.

In China, medium-length staple fiber and cotton-type staple prices rolled over in the third week of August. Sinopec released settlement prices for July for 1.5D ASF were unchanged. Offers for Taiwan origin 3D bright ASF tow was flat at US$1.55-1.65 a kg while regular specs was at US$1.50-1.55 a kg.

Related Keywords: acrylic staple fibre, acrylonitrile prices, ASF prices, asf prices in China, asf prices in India, asf prices in Pakistan

Asian marker, the CFR Far East Asia was up US$24 a ton in the third week of August while Southeast Asia jumped US$75 a ton on the week. In China, offers for offshore cargoes were hiked US$20-50 a ton CFR during the week.

Acrylonitrile prices soared in Asian markets with offers rising significantly amid tight supply and rising propylene cost. In China, Shanghai Secco shut its ACN unit Mid-August limiting regional availability. Spot prices went range‐bound that week, though majors offered flat and traders tended to raise offers.

Related Keywords: Acrylonitrile price in Asia, Acrylonitrile price in Europe, Acrylonitrile price in USA, asf producers, chemical grade propylene

Related Keywords: Bangla daily Prothom Alo, bring back the past glory of jute, campaign for publicity, CARE Bangladesh, develop design institute, domestic market, fair price for jute, implement Jute Policy, increase products use, producediversified jute products, Roundtable jointly organized, textiles and jute ministry officials

At a roundtable jointly organized by the Bangla daily Prothom Alo and CARE Bangladesh held at the newspaper's office in the capital, where the textiles and jute ministry officials, representatives of government and NGOs, jute factory owners, manufacturers and farmers participated yesterday, speakers said that producing diversified jute products and increasing the products' use at the domestic market can bring back the past glory of jute.

Related Keywords: a Japanese textile company, buy equipment from Japan. revamp plant, Industrial Development Corporation, Marubeni, rehabilitate Mulungushi Textiles Limited in Kabwe, set ground for Zambia, set up cotton out-grower scheme, signed memorandum of understanding, support farmers, within whole cotton value chain

THE Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) has signed memorandum of understanding with Marubeni, a Japanese textile company, to rehabilitate Mulungushi Textiles Limited in Kabwe and will also set ground for Zambia to buy equipment from Japan to revamp the plant, said IDC executive director of operations Paul Siame here on Sunday shortly after the signing ceremony.

The signing ceremony was witnessed by President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta and Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo with several other African government officials and private sector companies.

Related Keywords: allegedly dumped into the U.S. market, approved preliminary duties, Auburn Manufacturing, Chinese companies and the Chinese government, create a level playing field for manufacturers, duties are so high, Federal government, imports of Chinese specialty fabric, undercutting American-made products, violate international law

The federal government has approved preliminary duties on imports of a Chinese specialty fabric that allegedly have been dumped into the U.S. market, undercutting American-made products at places such as Auburn Manufacturing. The duties approved by U.S. Department of Commerce will take effect on products that have been imported into the country going back to June at a rate of 162 percent of the declared value.