Cotton

Nigeria Urged to Act as 180 Textile Factories Shut Down

Africa Elham Habibi - October 9, 2026 0

Nigeria’s Federal Government has been urged to take immediate action to protect the country’s remaining cotton, textile and garment production assets following the reported...

Africa

Can Africa Turn Its Cotton Strength Into a Global Textile Industry?

Africa is an important supplier of raw cotton to the global economy, yet it captures only a limited...

Nonwovens

Trützschler Highlights Cotton Technologies for Premium Nonwovens

Marking World Cotton Day, Trützschler Nonwovens has highlighted the opportunities cotton offers for producing premium spunlace nonwovens, alongside...

Exhibition News

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...

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,...

Japan Textile Salon to discuss design techniques

Article January 18, 2018

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

Article January 18, 2018

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...