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Related Keywords: boost khadi production, development activities, distribute charkas, expand production base, Gandhigram Khadi Trust, Khadi and Village Industries Commission, khadi reform development programme, KVIC, make feasible business for weavers, modernize khadi production, renovate khadi showrooms, strengthen design

The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has identified Gandhigram Khadi Trust to implement Khadi Reform Development Programme and take steps to modernize khadi production to make it a feasible business for weavers.

Under Khadi Reform Development programme, the KVIC has agreed to supply 75 new charkhas and 10 new improved handlooms to weavers in Gandhigram and surrounding villages.

In the first phase, 50 charkhas had been supplied, said Trust secretary K. Shivakumar, while distributing charkas to weavers on Saturday.

Related Keywords: Cooptex, eco friendly saris, Kanasu Nanasu Scheme, Negammam area of Coimbatore, organic cotton, Tamil Nadu Handloom Weavers Co-operative Society Ltd, using natural dye, vegetable colours, woven by traditional weavers

Tamil Nadu Handloom Weaver`s Co-operative Society Ltd, fondly referred to as `Co-optex` in the ongoing expo in the city has displayed a wide range of eco-friendly saris - eco-friendly because the fabric is dyed using natural/vegetable colours, looking at the growing consciousness of being `eco-friendly` and `going green, by women.

Related Keywords: acquisition of Birla Textiles Mills, CCI gives approval, cotton blended and acrylic yarns, flagship company of KK Birla Group, including net current assests, produces synthetic, Sutlej Textiles and Industries, textile division of Chambal Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd, textile value-chain from yarns to home textiles

Sutlej Textiles and Industries, the flagship company of KK Birla Group, has got approval for the Rs233 crore deal for the acquisition of Birla Textile Mills, the textile division of Chambal Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd., location at Baddi in Himachal Pradesh from the Competition Commission of India (CCI).

Sutlej Textiles in a filing to the BSE said that the Competition Commission of India has communicated to them their approval of the Proposed Combination.

Related Keywords: cotton yarn sector, decline in demand from China, garment and home textile export, in exports, Indian textile and clothing sector, major market for cotton and yarn exports, need support to upgrade technology, see slow growth, to be good

The Indian textile and clothing sector likely to see slow growth in exports this year, especially sectors such as cotton yarn due to decline in demand from China, according to industry sources. Last financial year it had registered 41 billion dollars worth exports.

The sources said that China was one of the major markets for cotton and yarn exports from India. Though textile mills were now exporting to countries such as Bangladesh, Vietnam and Cambodia, the demand from China was huge.

Related Keywords: before shrinking fine grade lint, build up inventories, Cotton market, fine grade lint demand, Karachi Cotton Association, physical prices firm, potential buyers made deals, producing better textile products, second grade cotton, spot rate stayed steady, Trading week

During trading week at cotton market, fine grade lint demand combined with buyers’ eagerness for fine and second grade cotton for blending purposes kept physical prices firm while spot rate stayed in steady zone. Buyers at major stations of Punjab and Sindh remained busy buying fine grades as demand of better grades was growing on back of producing better textile products while potential buyers made deals for all grades in order to build up their inventories before shrinking fine grade lint, dealers said.

Related Keywords: Bombay High Court asked textile units, common effluent treatment plant, Ichalkaranji textile town, make ETP fully operational, National Environment Engineering Research Institute, Western Maharashtra Powerloom Association, within nine months

Ichalkaranji-based union leader Datta Mane had approached the Bombay high court regarding release of untreated effluent in the Panchganga against which the Bombay high court on Wednesday asked the textile units to make the common effluent treatment plant (ETP) in Ichalkaranji fully operational within nine months, precisely by March next year. Ichalkaranji is a textile town and it has 12-MLD ETP.

Related Keywords: GIDC, official spot rate, Pakistan cotton market, remained unchanged, seed cotton price, spinners buying cotton, trading activity improved, unsold stock

Trading activity on the cotton market on Saturday witnessed improvement as needy spinners indulged in buying cotton to meet their needs. The official spot rate remained unchanged at Rs 5450, dealers said.

In the ready session, over 5000 bales of cotton changed hands between Rs 5400 and Rs 5650, they said. Seed cotton prices in Sindh were at Rs 2600-2700 and in Punjab rates were at Rs 2800 and Rs 2900, they said.

Related Keywords: domestic producers, form of subsidies from the federal budget, implement projects, new industrial park, provide additional state support, Russian government, technical modernization, technical textile and nonwoven industry

The Russian government is considering providing additional state support to its domestic producers of technical textiles and nonwovens. Russian Minister of Industry and Trade plans to provide funds which will help producers to complete currently implemented projects and to launch new ones.

According to an official representative of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, part of the funds will be also invested in the technical modernization of the national industry of technical textiles and nonwovens, as the share of outdated equipment in it remains very high.

Related Keywords: additional allocation of funds, CITI, Confederation of Indian Textile Industry, improve its competitiveness, spinning sector, Textile capital intensive industry, TUFS, under Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme, upgrade technology

The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) on Friday sought additional allocation of around Rs.3,000 crore under the Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS) stating unhealthy conditions faced by spinning sector.

The additional allocation will help clear the subsidy amount pending for earlier commitments from December 2014 to March 2015 under the TUFS scheme and also for new investments this year.

Related Keywords: Amrapur Overseas Inc, Colonial Home Textile, comforters, draperies and other home textiles, kids plush product line, makes bedding, plan to move at Magnolia Point, textile manufacturing and distribution company, towels

Amrapur Overseas Inc., div. Colonial Home Textiles in California, based in Garden Grove, a textile manufacturing and distribution company plans to move to the largest 21dock building on 7.7 acres at Magnolia Point, a redevelopment project in Corona as its U.S. headquarters office and Southern California logistics center, purchased for $20.1 million, according to CT Realty executive Mark Zehner.