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...

COTTONSCOPE Recognized

The ITMF International Committee on Cotton Testing Methods (ICCTM) gave full recognition at its meeting in Bremen, Germany to CottonScope, a fiber-testing instrument developed...

WEFTMASTER CUT-IT INCREASES QUALITY AND REDUCES LOT-CHANGE TIMES

Hot wire cutters are the standard tools in weaving processes, when it comes to cutting of woven synthetic fabrics. One of the world's most...

Construction Begins for Cotton Yarn Plant in Oman’s Sohar

India’s ShriVallabh Pittie (SVP) Group has started construction of a $300 million cotton yarn manufacturing plant at Oman’s Sohar Free Zone, marking a significant...

US cotton industry speaks out over China tariff threat

The increasingly fraught trading relationship between the United States and China has led to an outcry from the cotton growers of America for the...

Global interest in African cotton growing

Global interest in Africa is growing. The US and Russia don’t want to be sidelined in the Dark Continent by strategic super-investor China. At...

Oritain Eyes Cotton Supply Chain Traceability in Egypt

Supply chain traceability company, Oritain has announced it has partnered with Egyptian cotton supply chain trader Modern Nile Cotton Co., in order to verify...

USDA Lowers 2017-18 Cotton Export Target

The US department of agriculture (USDA) has lowered the country’s cotton export target for 2017-18 to 14.5 million bales of 480 lb each, down...

African Cotton Farmers Get 8 Million Euro Boost

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ) has pledged to provide funding grants of up to €8 million over a 4...

Cotton Prices in Brazilian Market Move up Last Month

Oscillations in international prices and the dollar-real exchange rate resulted in an increase in price in Brazil’s domestic market in February 2018. After slow...

Pakistan Organic Cotton Eyes Certification

Pakistan organic cotton :: KARACHI – Up to 50,000 bales of organic cotton currently being cultivated in Pakistan will get certification from world agencies...
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