World Textile News

Fabrics produced by Japanese manufacturers are increasingly appearing in the collections of high-end overseas brands.

Kenyan Government has issued VAT and duty exemption for its export processing companies to sell 20 per cent of their production to the domestic market

Teijin Polyester (Thailand), a Teijin Group subsidiary in Bangkok that manufactures and sells polyester fibre, have announced their collaboration with the Assumption College Primary Section (ACP), campus of Assumption College, a private school in Bangkok, Thailand in a recycling project of used PET bottles that starts this week.

The 17th China International Dye Industry, Pigments and Textile Chemicals Exhibition (China Interdye) and China International Digital Textile Printing, Printing and Dyeing Automatics Exhibition (China Textile Printing), will be held concurrently in Shanghai from April 12-14. Close to 630 exhibitors from 17 countries will participate in the exhibition.

BRUSSELS - A staggering 9.35 million tonnes of textile waste is being landfilled or incinerated in the European Union each year.

Visitor numbers at the recently concluded Yarn Expo trade show in Shanghai rose 10 per cent to 22,579 and they came from 94 countries and regions, as against 20,527 from 77 countries and regions in 2016

Radiation is now being explored to treat industrial waste in developing countries like China which has set up its first such plant to clean wastewater from a textile dyeing facility

The government of Kenya is looking to increase the production of the cotton crop, which is currently at around 10.4 per cent of the country's potential.

Global supplier of zippers and apparel fasteners Talon International, will be unveiling the world's biggest zipper at the LA Fashion Week (LAFW)

Owing to high recent shipments and sales to all major markets, US cotton export outlook for 2016-17 is hiked by 500,000 bales to 13.2 million bales for 2016-17, the US department of agriculture (USDA) has said in its March 2017 report 'Cotton: World Markets and Trends'. The report also projects US cotton exports to remain at 13.2 million bales in 2017-18.