Cotton

Cork Meets Cotton: Textile Innovation at Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles 2026

Exhibition News Elham Habibi - 0
Drink your wine… then make fabric from the cork! One of the materials that really caught my attention at Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles 2026 was...
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Fiber & yarn

Kenya’s Cotton Revival Shifts Focus From Farming to Textile Manufacturing

Thika Cloth Mills says Kenya’s renewed cotton production could support a wider industrial value chain encompassing ginning, spinning,...
Africa

Climate Change Puts Africa’s Cotton and Textile Ambitions Under Pressure

Africa’s ambitions to expand its textile and apparel manufacturing industry are becoming increasingly linked to a challenge that...
Africa

Benin Plans to Triple Local Cotton Processing as Textile Industry Expands

Benin is moving to increase its domestic cotton-processing capacity from 40,000 tonnes to 140,000 tonnes as part of...
Africa

Africa’s Cotton Industry Holds Key to Millions of Textile Jobs, Experts Say

Africa's cotton industry could become one of the continent's strongest drivers of industrial growth, employment, and economic transformation...

Cotton Prices Hit 10-Year High

Textile Market
Cotton prices surged to a 10-year high, reaching US$ 1.16 per pound and touching levels not seen since July 7, 2011. So far,...

Teaching an Old Fiber New Tricks: Giza-Protect

Egypt
The extra-long staple Egyptian Giza cotton for years has been the fiber of choice for making premium clothing and home textiles. Recently, Egypt-based spinning specialist...

Cattail Textile Fiber and its Research Trend

Fiber & yarn
Author: Md. Khalilur Rahman Khan/  khalilbutex@gmail.com Former Assistant Professor, Bangladesh University of Business and Technology. Abstract: Cattail (Typha spp.) is an iconic wetland plant found worldwide, particularly...

COVID-19 and Africa’s cotton production

Middle East and Africa
There are over 20 million smallholder cotton farmers in Africa Cotton is a commercial crop grown mainly for its fibre or lint, a raw material...

The new innovation from Trützschler ; Pre-Cleaner CL-X

Textile Machinery
The new Pre-Cleaner CL-X: Higher productivity and lower energy consumption Double the production rate, with lower energy consumption per kilogram of fiber material – that...

French Development Agency to invest $83m in Ivory Coast cotton sector

Middle East and Africa
Over a period of five years, the French Development Agency (AFD) will invest €68.5 million ($83.04 million) to increase cotton production in Ivory Coast,...

Kenya Aims to Produce 200,000 Bales of GMO Cotton by 2022

Kenya
Kenya aims to increase its commercial production of GMO cotton by ten times next year. Its target is to involve over 200,000 farmers to...

Egypt ready for world’s largest textile factory by March 2022

Egypt
Egypt is going full throttle with the construction of a textiles factory in the city of El-Mahalla that is slated to become the world's...

Brazilian cotton index drops 4.96% in March

Fiber & yarn
The CEPEA/ESALQ Index for cotton in Brazil dropped by 4.96 per cent for the month from February 26 to March 31, closing at 4.8088...

South African woven cotton textile sector workers get 5.5% rise

Middle East and Africa
Those working in the woven cotton textile sub-sector in South Africa will receive a 5.5 per cent wage increase, with effect from last month,...
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