Paulino Vacas Jacques, the Mexican researcher approached the Social Innovation Park De La Salle in Guanajuato, center state in Mexico to acquire the state and federal tools for technology transfer which is said to revolutionize the textile industry. This step would help to convert the textiles which the researcher refers to as “smart textiles” which would have the ability retrieved from the technology to make bed sheets measure the hours a person slept. Vacas Jacques, who worked at the Mas

In the first quarter of this year, the textile industry of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (hereinafter referred to as Corps) maintained the recovery trend. It produced 44,100 tons of cotton yarn and 8.67 million meters of cotton fabric, up 5.2% and 11.6% year-on-year respectively, with the sales/output ratio up to 92.6%, up 1.3% year-on-year. In 2015, the textile industry is still facing many challenges, such as the new Environment Protection Law, new regulations on land use, ter

China and South Korea on Monday formally signed a free trade agreement that would remove most tariffs between Asia’s largest and fourth-largest economies, whose trade is already worth more than $200 billion. The pact — largely agreed in November and signed by the two nations’ trade ministers on Monday — aims to gradually remove tariffs on more than 90 per cent of traded goods within 20 years. China is the South’s top trading partner as well as the biggest export market, and two-way trade

Textile and clothing export from India rose a marginal 5.4 per cent in 2014-15, despite unfavourable government policies, complain companies in the sector. According to The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council (Texprocil), textile and clothing export was $41.4 bn in 2014-15 as against $39.3 bn in 2013-14. “We require a level playing field in terms of interest rates, timely release of incentives and policy support as our competitors enjoy. Through basic manufacturing, we are very much comp

Belgium based carpet weaving machines producer Van de Wiele signed an agreement to purchase French company Superba along with its US subsidiary. According to a Van de Wiele press release, Superba a manufacturer of heat setting machines for carpet yarns has developed a unique and performing heat setting system based on saturated steam.“With 40 years of experience in the highly specialised field of yarns for tufted and woven carpet, Superba is providing advanced and competitive solutions with a c

Cone Denim (Jiaxing) Limited is a large-scale denim manufacturing enterprise located in Jiaxing Economic Development Zone, Zhejiang Province, which was jointly contributed by International Textile Group from USA and Novel Group from Hong Kong in 2005, then turning into US sole proprietorship in 2011, has announced that its Cone Denim Jiaxing (CDJ) facility has received OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 certification on selected denim products. The CDJ operation opened in 2007 has produced industry-lead

China's exports of textiles and apparel dropped 16.33% year-on-year to near US$ 19.88 billion in this April, but up 58.19% month-on-month, said the General Administration of Customs. The export of textile yarn, fabric and made-up goods amounted to about US$ 9.42 billion, down 10.76% year-on-year, but up 60.33% month-on-month; the export of apparel and accessories amounted to about US$ 10.46 billion, down 20.78% from a year earlier, but up 56.32% from the previous year. In January-April p

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar here on Saturday said that government wanted to strengthen the role of textile sector as the leading foreign exchange earner for the country for which joint efforts by the government and the industry itself were required. He made these remarks during an interactive session with representatives of the textile industry, considering their proposals for the budget 2015-16. Chairman FBR, Tariq Bajwa and Advisor Finance Division, Rana Assad Amin were also present. The

People touch specially woven Project Jacquard fabric, in the hands of a small Google team called Advanced Technology and Projects, to control lights or computer screens during a demonstration at Google’s annual developers conference in San Francisco, California on Friday. Google announced that it is working with iconic US jean maker Levi Strauss to make clothing from specially woven fabric with touch-screen control capabilities. — AFP photo Google announced Friday that it was working with ic

One of Sweden’s largest public-private partnerships, Sweden textile water initiative will expand to new countries in Asia and Africa after a successful pilot project in India. Through the initiative, 28 Swedish textile and leather companies have cooperated with Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) to catalyse a shift towards sustainable production globally, SIWI said on its website.To achieve this, the initiative has educated suppliers and sub-contractors to help minimize the use of w