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The Memorandum of Understanding signed last year between Bannari Amman Institute of Technology (BIT), Sathyamangalam and New Zealand Institute of Fashion Technology (NZIFT) for delivering mutual benefit across education, design, manufacturing and community engagement has started not only bringing in goods results but also delivering mutual benefits.

The Indian Apparel and Textile Practicum programme’ was developed by BIT and NZIFT and Giles Brooker Education Development Services Pvt. Ltd (GBE) last year has benefitted two batches.

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The Pakistan government has so far revised down its crop estimate almost by 30 percent this year from an initial target of 15.4 million bales set in February. Local cotton demand is estimated at 15.5 million bales this year. The latest estimate suggests the crop size will not exceed 10.8 million bales (of 170 kilogram) from 11.4 million bales forecasted last month. The Cotton Crop Assessment Committee (CCAC), in a meeting held earlier this week, sees additional shortfall of 600,000 bales this crop season.

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Maharashtra state government has identified ten viable districts on the basis of cotton availability for the textile parks of which the state government has approved nine new textile parks throughout the state to boost the textile sector of this two are in Vidarbha, and the rest in Marathwada and Jalgaon district of north Maharashtra.

At the Textile Seminar 2015, organized by the industries department, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said that the industry will always have a growth potential as demand for garment is never going to die down.

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The Goods and Services Tax (GST) is seen as key to facilitating industrial growth and improving business climate in the country. A constitutional amendment measure, the GST Bill needs to be passed by a two third majority in both houses of parliament and by the legislatures of half of the states in the country to become law.

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The midterm assessment of Maharashtra Textile Policy 2011-17 launched during the previous Congress-NCP regime revealed a grim situation both on revenue and employment fronts. The policy had stipulated generation of 11 lakh jobs and investment worth Rs40,000 crore in five years. The aim was to utilise 45 lakh surplus cotton bales produced in the state.

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Coimbatore textile mills having faced the hit in operations due to long hours of power cut have taken steps towards energy conservation as technology is available for every activity to bring down the electricity consumed in the mills, said M. Senthil Kumar, chairman of Southern India Mills’ Association.

Be it the spinning mills or the humidification plants, machinery come with energy saving upgrades. At present, only two percent to three percent of the mills have gone in for LEDs. There is still much that can be done by the mills for saving energy in operations.

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Federal Minister for Industries and Production Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi welcoming the Italian Trade Commissioner Riccardo Monti, who is on a two day visit to Pakistan said that Pakistan is a safe country for investors and investments as it has dedicated National Industrial Parks and Export Processing Zone with special Tax concession where Italian companies can set up their units and also have opportunity to establish their independent units to avail the same facilities.

In China, offers for cotton-type staple fiber declined US cents 10 a kg while medium-length staple fell to US$1.84-2.06 a kg in the first week of December.

Jilin Chemical Fiber maintained its list prices for December with 1.5D at US$2.06 a kg, 3D medium-length at US$2.05 a kg, tow at US$2.13 a kg and top at US$2.27 a kg.

Taiwan origin 3D bright ASF tow prices were down US cents 5-10 a kg.

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In China, offers for offshore cargoes were up US$40-50 a ton in the first week of December.

Asian acrylonitrile marker the CFR Far East Asia was assessed flat on the week at US$1,049-1,051 a ton while Southeast Asia was at US$929-931 a ton.

Acrylonitrile prices were firm in NE Asia and weak in SE Asia/India that week. Tight supply in Taiwan/China bolsters NE Asian prices while deepsea cargo arrivals depressed prices in SE Asia/India.

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Raghuvir Group is among Ahmedabad's top three private sector textile houses. The interests of the Group range from Textile, Real Estate, Infrastructure and Warehousing. Raghuvir Group plans to double its garments and home textile capacities for which it will make an investment of Rs 10 crore.

The investment will take its garments and home textiles capacities to 2 million units and 2 million sets, respectively, to support its subsidiary Raghuvir Lifestyle's foray into offline retail.