29 April 2022, Mumbai:

ECOSENSOR™ by Asahi Kasei Advance launches its new SS 2023 fabric collection at Performance Days.

Sustainability-oriented and technology-based, ECOSENSOR™ fabrics give birth to a smart wardrobe mixing great design and certified responsibility.

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On the occasion of Performance Days, the Japanese textile manufacturer ECOSENSOR™ by Asahi Kasei Advance presents its SS 2023 collection, made of high-tech fabrics implementing new-generation values, with the aim of keeping nature, body, and mind in harmony.

ECOSENSOR™ presents 40 new references that meet the needs of the contemporary consumer, such as durability, well-being, and performance.

Being capable of combining active climate control, exquisite touch, lightness, and comfort with sustainable values, ECOSENSOR™ stands out as a unique eco-high-tech performance proposition in its market.

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The collection covers the different market applications with 7 items for INNERWEAR, 2 for OUTERWEAR, 17 for SPORT KNIT and 14 for SPORT WOVEN.

Furthermore, all ECOSENSOR™ fabrics are made with sustainable materials which are certified by international certifications such as GRS, RCS, or self-certification by each yarn supplier, through a traceable and transparent production process and supply chain.

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26 April 2022, Mumbai:

Registration is now open for the International Cotton Association (ICA)’s next major event, Las Vegas 2022 - the ICA’s first traditional trade event and gala dinner in three years. The event will take place from 8 – 10 November in the Park MGM, Las Vegas.

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With the theme of Together Again, Las Vegas 2022 will provide an opportunity for the industry to reunite, network, and do business in the city’s exciting corporate environment.

This year’s event will take place over three days at the Park MGM, which is located in the center of the Strip and provides a fresh take on the Vegas resort experience.

The event will conclude with a spectacular ‘Together Again’ Gala Dinner.

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ICA President, Alex Hsu, explains; “Securing a destination for this year’s event has been a difficult journey with ever-changing restrictions, so we are delighted to be able to confirm this year’s location like Las Vegas, an accessible and entertaining city for the industry to get together after these turbulent few years.

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23 April 2022, Mumbai:

Garmon Chemicals Introduces Sustainable “Power Saving” Approach to Support Customers in Reducing Costs and Resource Consumption.

An integrated approach to sustainability improves the efficiency of garment-finishing treatments, lowering costs and limiting resource depletion.

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Kemin Industries, a global ingredient manufacturer that strives to sustainably transform the quality of life every day for 80 percent of the world with its products and services, announced today that Garmon Chemicals, the company’s textile auxiliaries business unit that provides chemical solutions for the denim and fashion industry, recently introduced "Power Saving"—an integrated approach to sustainability that combines processes and chemicals to save resources and reduce costs—at the denim industry show, Kingpins Amsterdam.

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Today’s textile industry faces many challenges. With rising prices of energy, gas, water, and transportation making a huge impact on apparel production, garment manufacturers are searching for ways to maintain competitiveness in the marketplace.

Garmon Chemicals’ Power Saving approach assists producers with sustainable solutions that can help save on costs and resources during a time of fluctuating prices.

Sustainability and efficiency goals can be achieved in different ways, but Garmon Chemicals’ favorite is partnership.

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28 April 2022, Mumbai:

Century Textiles plans to focus on offering new products after considering retail price points. It also plans to focus on blending manmade fibers and expanding into new markets such as Australia, Saudi Arabia, and Russia.

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In Q4 FY22 Century Textiles & Industries’ consolidated net profit increased to Rs 84.43 crore as against a net loss of Rs 4.89 crore in Q4 FY21.

Net sales were up 44.62 percent to Rs 1,186.22 crore during the quarter over Rs 820.21 crore in Q4 FY21. Consolidated EBITDA grew 66.25 percent to Rs 133 crore in Q4 FY22 as against Rs 80 crore in Q4 FY21.

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Century Textiles and Industries’ textiles annual turnover grew 54 percent Y-o-Y during Q4 FY22 backed by strong sales growth and improved operational efficiencies.

The company’s capacity utilization reached 97 percent during the quarter as compared to 92 percent in Q4 FY21.

The company also launched home textile products for the domestic market under the brand name 'Hill & Glade'.

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25 April 2022, Mumbai:

For the first time, the Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SGCCI) has organised a four-day-long ‘Global Textile Trade Fair’ in Atlanta, New Jersey, and Los Angeles in the United States of America (USA) starting from June 9.

The first-of-its-kind Global Textile Trade Fair has been conferred with the official logo endorsement of the Ministry of Textile, Government of India, and backed by the Consulate General of India in Atlanta and various American institutions and organisations.

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The Global Textile Trade Fair will open in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 9. A three-day textile show will include a diverse array of products, including polyester, nylon viscose, Indo Ethnic wear for ladies, Kurti and Kurtas, home textile, medical textile, clothing and garments, handicraft and handloom, and Khadi.

The exhibition will have the attraction of a fashion show depicting the fabrics and fashion from Surat and across the country. The Atlanta exhibition will be followed by a B2B and B2C exhibition in New Jersey on June 17 and the B2C Table Top Buyer-Seller meeting being organised in Los Angeles on June 19.

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The exhibition will be attended by the buyers, sellers, and manufacturers of textiles from across the globe to seal the business deals with the textile manufacturers and traders from Surat.

Ashish Gujarati, president, of SGCCI said, “A delegation under the leadership of exhibition chairman of the Global Textile Trade Fair, Amish Shah, and co-chairman Harshal Bhagat met the Consul General of Consulate General of India in Atlanta, Swati V Kulkarni.

The Consul General showed her preparedness for providing all required assistance, organising meetings for the visiting delegation with the buyers in the US, and involving all the textile associations in Atlanta.” Gujarati stated that the delegation members met Nishant Patel, chairman of the Asian-American Hotel Owners’ Association (AAHOA) in America’s Baltimore, and other hoteliers.

Patel is a native of Surat and has recently been appointed as the chairman of the AAHOA. The exhibition will be featuring home textiles; therefore all the hotel owners and agents associated will also visit the exhibition and cooperate to make it a huge success. Himanshu Bodawala, vice-president, of SGCCI said, “This is the first time that the SGCCI is organising a textile trade fair in the US.

There are many companies around Atlanta manufacturing technical textile and the exhibitors will have an opportunity to develop direct bilateral trade relations with the manufacturers.”

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CREDITS: UNI (The news article has not been edited by DFU Publications).

23 April 2022, Mumbai:

Archroma and Stony Creek Colors to enter a strategic partnership to produce IndiGold™ high-performance plant-based pre-reduced indigo at scale.

They duo recently announced that they have entered a strategic partnership to produce and bring to the market Stony Creek’s IndiGold™ high-performance plant-based pre-reduced indigo at scale. Stony Creek extracts its dye from proprietary Indigofera plant varieties grown in partnership with family farms as a regenerative rotational crop.

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Stony Creek Colors developed the new IndiGold™ concept as the world’s first pre-reduced natural indigo dye, which was then developed with Archroma to offer the first-ever plant-based alternative to synthetic pre-reduced indigo.

The dyestuff will be sold at a 20% concentration in a soluble liquid form that displays similar performance to comparable synthetic indigo products available on the market. Stony Creek Colors evolved into an innovative leader in plant-based indigo due to its complete development of an improved agricultural value chain, from seed breeding and production to biomass harvest and extraction.

The company has been selling its US-grown indigo to denim mills since 2015. The pre-reduced plant-based indigo partnership took root in 2020 when Stony Creek was looking to work with like-minded partners to produce the new dyestuff at scale.

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Archroma emerged as the ideal partner as the company is well known for its expertise in indigo manufacturing and application, as well as for its commitment to transforming the denim industry towards creating better blue jeans.

Archroma continuously introduces eco-advanced indigo innovations such as the first-ever aniline-free* synthetic pre-reduced indigo or the Archroma x CleanKore technology for aniline-free* potassium permanganate-free* spray and laser booster for white abrasion.

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28 April 2022, Mumbai:

Delhi-based sustainability-focused organization, the Centre for Responsible Business (CRB), has released a new report titled ‘Circular Textiles and Apparel in India: Policy Intervention Priorities and Ideas’.

The report is based on secondary and field-level research and engagement with key stakeholders. It makes specific recommendations for incorporating principles of circular economy in the sector.

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CRB launched the report to identify priority areas for Circular Economy interventions in the Indian textile and apparel value chain.

The report highlights the potential for the apparel and textile sector and recommends policy interventions to support its growth.

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It states, that linking circular economy priorities with social benefits such as fair wages, and good working conditions, augmented by transparency in business practices, may open new business opportunities for the apparel and textile sectors.

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The sector can boost exports by adhering to global norms and voluntary sustainability standards, says the report.

It can also create new jobs by prompting and formalizing activities such as recovery, repurposing, repair, and recycling of garments, managing post-production, and post-consumer textiles waste, etc, it adds.

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25 April 2022, Mumbai:

FABTEX 2016 Expo is for sourcing fabrics for fashion apparel.

FABTEX EXHIBITION SUPPORTED BY

RIElan™
Fabric 2.0 l Liva

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The FABTEX EXPO is being organised by Tecoya Infotech organiser of Fibres & Yarns Exhibition held every year since 2006 at the World Trade Centre. Tecoya Infotech has organised 11 Edition of Fibres & Yarns Expo.

Nearly 90% of the exhibitors are repeat exhibitors at the Fibres & Yarns Expo.

Tecoya Infotech's reputation has been built by carefully selecting companies for the Fibres & Yarns show who reach high standards of quality, service and innovation.

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Exhibitors of all the 11 Edition of Fibres & Yarns Expo have been in touch to tell us of their exciting development plans.

Highlights of FABTEX Expo:

It will provide a live experience to trade visitors who can touch and feel fabrics swatches and compare the quality and network with potential suppliers.

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CREDITS: Fabtex (The news article has not been edited by DFU Publications).

22 April 2022, Mumbai:

The event will be held at Shree Shakti Convention Centre near Vaishnodevi Circle.

The textile task force of the Gujarat Chamber of Commerce has organised this conclave where senior representatives of textile associations will interact with Darshana Jardosh, Union Minister of State for Textiles, Jagdish Panchal, Minister of Industries, Gujarat besides Textile Commissioner, Roop Rashi Mahapatra, Government of India, and Dr. Rahul Gupta, Industries Commissioner.

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This interactive conclave is meant to be a purposeful dialogue between the multi-stakeholders viz. government and industry to discuss amongst other trade issues, the FTA roadmap plan for the textile industry, and deliberate by identifying productive methods to give textiles a boost.

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CREDITS: GCCI

28 April 2022, Mumbai:

TENCEL™ brand launches Tree Climate fabric collection for sustainable outdoor apparel.

Lenzing, a leading global producer of wood-based specialty fibers, has earlier this week launched the Tree Climate fabric collection by TENCEL™, curated by outdoor fabric innovators David Parkes and Marco Weichert, at Performance Days in Munich.

˜ Tree Climate fabric collection by TENCEL™ redefines sustainability in functional outdoor fabrics with moisture management, optimum breathability, and reduced carbon footprint.

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˜ Environmental impact of TENCEL™ branded fibers used in the collection is amongst the lowest of all materials on the Higg Materials Sustainability Index

˜ Variety ranges from the next-to-skin base layer and biodegradable wadding to water and wind repellent outer layers made of wood-based TENCEL™ Lyocell fibers.

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The new Tree Climate outdoor fabric collection features the wide range and versatility of TENCEL™ branded lyocell fibers. It displays a great variety of base, mid, and outer layer fabrics each offering a range of inherent performance qualities, as well as waddings made of wood-based TENCEL™ Lyocell fibers for outdoor applications.

The three-fold collection allows the creation of synthetic-free and enhanced synthetic content layering solutions for different weather conditions.

The environmental impact of the fibers is amongst the lowest of all materials according to the Higg Materials Sustainability Index, an industry-wide tool that measures and communicates the environmental impact of materials used for apparel.

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23 April 2022, Mumbai:

This collaborative and educational project showcases the use of waste as a resource and prolongs the life of the garment through color.

It came to life thanks to key brands who donated items that were then creatively transformed by Officina39’s RecycromTM applications into a renewed head-to-toe look that was then displayed as an art installation.

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What’s the Recipe for change?

For Officina39 and Adriana Galijasevic’s Cocircular Lab, this question gives shape to the collaborative and educational project Circular Explorations, specially presented at Amsterdam Denim Days Festival on April 22-23.

Sharing ground values and a common view on the fashion of tomorrow, Officina39, Italian based Chemistry plus Creativity company for the textile sector, joined hands with Adriana Galijasevic’s Cocircular Lab and influential brands to celebrate the importance of an ongoing commitment towards circularity.

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“Our RECYCROMTM technology combined with Adriana’s creative soul gave us the opportunity to explore new materials and applications, reducing the impact on the environment and cutting down on water consumption,” said Luca Di Guida, Officina39 R&D Manager.

“It’s a great joy to partner up on this collaborative project using creative expression as a medium in order to raise the awareness regarding circular solutions while emphasizing the inherent need for transparency and evolution of infrastructure in order to propel the future of material reuse” states Adriana Galijasevic, Cocircular Lab Founder & CEO.

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21 April 2022, Mumbai:

The exemption of import duty on cotton till September 30 will boost textile exports to $60 billion in the current fiscal year, says Home Textile Exporters Welfare Association (HEWA).

The exemption will not only benefit the entire textile value chain but also ease demand pressure and stabilize cotton prices, says HEWA.

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Another benefit of the exemption includes the end of the volatile situation persisting for the last six months, which would help the textile exporters achieve splendid growth in FY23, adds the association.

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HEWA says the government needs to stop the uncontrolled exports of raw materials to nations such as China and Bangladesh as they are disrupting the current supply-demand cycle.

The rise in cotton prices since October 2021 impacted textile exports in 2022, it adds.

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CREDITS: KNN India report.