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...

Egypt’s cotton exports reduce by 38.4% in Jun-Aug 2017

Egypt’s cotton exports reduced by 38.4 per cent between June and August, the fourth quarter of the agricultural season 2016-17, standing at 3,276 tonnes compared with...

Brazil Cotton Prices Rise as Domestic Trading Accelerates

Brazil's cotton market recorded stronger activity in February 2018 as fluctuations in international cotton prices and the exchange rate between the US dollar and...

Applied DNA & Cotton USA make cotton traceability solution

Applied DNA Sciences, Inc., a provider of molecular technologies for diagnostics and therapeutics, has announced that it has joined hands with Cotton USA, a trademark of...

Wuxi No. 1 Cotton Mill invests in Loepfe technology

Wuxi No. 1 Cotton Mill has invested heavily in the upgradation of all its existing Savio winders with Loepfe’s yarn clearing technology. With the increasing demand...

Applied DNA bags order for DNA transfer system of cotton

Applied DNA Sciences, Inc., a provider of molecular technologies, has announced that in response to an order from an international cotton gin, the company will be...

International Cotton Conference to Focus on Sustainability

The 34th International Cotton Conference 2018 will emphasise on sustainable cotton and textile production. The conference will provide a forum for scientifically founded and practically useful insights into key...

Bt cotton seeds effective, MMBL writes to Indian minister

US firm Monsanto’s Indian joint venture Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (MMBL) has termed the threat by industry body National Seed Association of India (NSAI) to...

Japan Textile Salon to discuss design techniques

Japan Textile Salon, organised by the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO), will discuss design techniques and the use of fabrications and materials. The exhibition will focus on increasing...

Brazil’s area under cotton should rise in 2018: Cepea

Owing to favourable weather in the main producing regions, area planted with cotton in Brazil is expected to increase in 2018, Center for Advanced Studies on...

Trade Conditions Weaken Egypt Textiles

The slide in the value of the Egyptian pound since December is good news for the textile industry, but its impact is blunted by...
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