Cotton

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

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...

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,...

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...

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’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...

Mali expects record cotton output in 2019-20 season

Mali, a land-locked country in west Africa, is expecting record cotton output of around 800,000 tonnes during the ongoing season 2019-20, according to the...

Bangladesh Decreases Dependency on India’s Cotton

Once accounting for more than 50 per cent of Bangladesh’s total cotton imports, India apparently is losing the favourite tag from the former’s perspective...

100% cotton from Gap by 2025

100% cotton :: Following Benetton’s recent pledge to use 100 per cent sustainable cotton by 2025, Gap Inc. too has in its statement committed...

Ghana fixes cotton prices for 2019-20 crop season

Ghana recently fixed the seed and input cost for the cultivation of cotton for the 2019-20 crop season at a meeting of government representatives...

Africa Turns Largest Cotton Source for Bangladesh

African nations have left India behind to turn the largest source of cotton for Bangladesh as domestic spinners and millers aim to cut down...

Applied DNA brings its innovative traceability system to Egypt cotton supply chain

Egypt has employed Applied DNA’s molecular tagging technology in its two varieties of cotton which help them to ensure product authenticity and provenance. Applied DNA...

Ghana’s Cotton Sector to get $10-mn Boost

RMG Ghana Ltd will invest $10 million in the country’s cotton industry under a five-year project to raise cultivation of the crop from the...

Applied DNA to deploy molecular tagging system in Egypt

Applied DNA has received an order for the implementation of its SigNature T cotton traceability system in Egypt to permanently mark two varietals of...

US Textile Fibre Imports at Record High in 2018: USDA

Net textile and apparel fibre imports by the US rose to a second consecutive record in calendar 2018, as consumer demand for clothing increased...

NACOTAN foresees higher cotton production in Nigeria

The National Cotton Association of Nigeria (NACOTAN) is targeting a cotton production output between 240,000 and 300,000 tonnes in 2019, its president Anibe Achimugu...
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