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...

ZIMBABWE TO ACCELERATE COTTON INDUSTRY GROWTH

Middle East and Africa
The Zimbabwe government recently released its vision for the country’s cotton industry that aims to accelerate growth in the sector besides enhancing sustainability. In the...

Kenya: To Grow Kenya’s Textile Industry, We Must Revive Cotton Farming

Fiber & yarn
Cotton lint is the most important input in the textile industry. Cottonseed is crucial in the vegetable oil and animal feed industries. Cotton grows...

Cameroon: Cicam purchased only 1% of fiber cotton produced in 2019-2020

Middle East and Africa
Sodecoton produced a record 328,453 tons of cottonseed during the 2019-2020 cotton campaign, which was technically completed in May 2020. With that cottonseed, the...

The Year 2020 and Cotton Textiles Sector

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By Seshadri Ramkumar, Texas Tech University Year 2020 keeps on giving and the cotton textiles sector is not immune to multiple pressures. With the arrival of...

Cotton Production for 2020 Report: USDA

Textile World
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has increased its forecast for 2020 U.S. cotton production by 3% to 18.1 million bales, reflecting the first...

Growing the Cotton Sector

Fiber & yarn
By: Seshadri Ramkumar, Professor, Texas Tech University, USA Cotton supply chain is a vital job-creating sector, from agriculture to fashion industry. With the COVID-19 creating a...

Global Exports of Cotton Yarn Expected to Strengthen

Economy News
The global export of cotton yarns has reportedly declined 9.5 per cent from $14,565.80 million in the year 2017 to $13,182.02 million in 2019....

First organic cotton ginning plant in West Africa

Middle East and Africa
West and Central Africa have their first organic cotton ginning plant, a move designed to boost the regions textile industries. Inaugurated by the President of...

Cotton Demand Needs Enhancement

Fiber & yarn
By: Seshadri Ramkumar, Texas Tech University - Professor, Nonwovens & Advanced Materials Laboratory (Lubbock, USA, August 18, 2020)—Indian current year’s cotton production will be more...

New USTER® STATISTICS Data Offers Competitive Gains

Fiber & yarn
How spinners can improve quality consistency and get the most out of raw material Uster Technologies offers spinners valuable new insights into yarn quality optimization,...
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