Cotton

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

Exhibition News Elham Habibi - August 26, 2026 0

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...

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,...

Africa

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...

Africa

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

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...

ITMF Report: Modest Capacity Growth and Decline in Fibre Consumption

Middle East and Africa December 24, 2024

International Textile Industry Statistics n°66/2023: Slight capacity growth and lower fibre consumption in 2023 The International Textile Manufacturer Federation (www.itmf.org) has published its International Textile...

The Good Cashmere Conference 2025: Two-Day Event in Hamburg Focussing on Animal Welfare, Biodiversity, and Virtual Reality

Exhibition News December 9, 2024

The Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF) invites you to the annual conference of The Good Cashmere Standard® (GCS), which will be held on 25...

Swiss Technology Leader Haelixa Enhances Organic Cotton Traceability with C&A Partnership

Fiber & yarn December 6, 2024

Haelixa has partnered with C&A, one of Europe’s fashion retailers, to advance the traceability of its organic cotton. The partnership stems from C&A’s commitment...

Recover™ Opens New Factory, Pioneers Recycling Technology in Vietnam

Garment & Fashion December 4, 2024

Recover™, a global producer of recycled cotton fiber and cotton fiber blends, today announced the opening of its latest manufacturing facility in Vietnam, marking...

Aid by Trade Foundation Partners with Lectra’s TextileGenesis™ to Enhance Traceability of Cotton Made in Africa® (CmiA) Fiber

Fiber & yarn December 2, 2024

The Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF) and TextileGenesis, a Lectra group company, are proud to announce the continuation of their successful partnership to further...