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...

Cotton USA to Show Innovative Technologies at Heimtextil

Cotton USA will show the global home textile industry What’s New In Cotton, with innovative technologies to drive sales growth, at its booth in...

Cotton sector to receive boost in Azerbaijan’s Ujar region

Factories for cotton processing, production of cottonseed oil and fiberless cotton seeds will be set up in Azerbaijan’s Ujar region as part of measures...

Kenyan Farmers to Grow Bt Cotton Commercially Starting

Kenyan farmers will start commercially growing transgenic Bt cotton from next April after waiting for nearly two decades. The development is likely to spur...

1st specialized free zone for textile industry in Egypt

The world’s first specialized free zone for the textile industry is under construction in Egypt’s Minya Governorate, the chief executive officer of the General...

Brazilian cotton prices drop more than 7% in October

Cotton prices dropped in Brazil in October. From September 28 to October 31, the Center for Advanced Studies on Applied Economics (CEPEA)/ESALQ cotton Index,...

Tajikistan Reports 60,000 Tons of Cotton Harvested Amid Expanding Cultivation

Tajikistan has harvested approximately 60,000 tons of cotton as of September 18, according to official local media sources. The crop has been collected from...

Birla Cellulose, Isko, Lenzing Join ZDHC Programme

Birla Cellulose, Isko and Lenzing have joined ZDHC Roadmap to Zero Programme. These new contributors join in the category of value chain affiliates from...

US bans import of cotton goods from Turkmenistan

The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a Withhold Release Order (WRO) last week banning the importation of all Turkmenistan cotton or...

Pakistan to Start Importing Cotton from Afghanistan

Pakistan has signed an agreement to facilitate bilateral trade with Afghanistan and has also decided to import Afghan cotton. At a ceremony held in...

ICCTM Advances Research on Cotton Stickiness

The ITMF International Committee on Cotton Testing Methods (ICCTM) is making substantial progress in identifying the sources and causes of stickiness in cotton. The...
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