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30th Jan 2024

India’s textiles ministry and the Andhra Pradesh government hosted a National Conference on Technical Textiles in Vijayawada. It featured discussions on sustainability, circular economy, and infrastructure applications in agrotextiles and geotextiles. Attendees included industry leaders, scientists, and officials like Rajeev Saxena, G Amarnath and...

26th Nov 2021

The ‘Make PPE in America Act’ will need a wide range of federal agencies to purchase US-made personal protective equipment. The bill also requires such agencies to issue long-term contracts to US manufacturers. This seismic change is needed to ensure the supply chain physically moves and is to now be controlled within the US, according to US Meltblown.

6th Jan 2016

Meghalaya will soon use geo-textile and geo-cell technology for road construction. The government will also undertake flood control measures in the

11th Apr 2019

Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) and US Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center (CCDC CBC) have developed functional textiles that neutralise a blistering agent simulant under 80 per cent relative humidity condition. The new coating also captures ammonia gas, a commonly produced industrial chemical ...

23rd Feb 2019

The Northern India Textile Research Association (NITRA) recently organised Tech-Tex 2019, a one-day conference on protective and automotive textiles. The conference was organised on the next day of the 58th Joint Technological Conference (JTC), an annual feature of India’s four premier textiles research associations (TRAs) viz ATIRA, BTRA, SITRA and...

11th Jan 2023

UK-based Technical Absorbents Ltd (TAL), manufacturer of washable superabsorbent fabrics, has attained OEKO-TEX certification for its washable fabric technology. TAL has received interest from several companies in the reusable hygiene market looking to create new or improve their current range of period and incontinence products over the past year.

31st Mar 2017

The Indian textiles industry, currently estimated at around $108 billion, is expected to reach $223 billion by 2021. Expanding in the same proportion as the entire textile industry, the market for technical textiles in India, which stood at Rs 92,499 crore in 2015-16, is expected to grow at 12 per cent CAGR and reach 1,16,217 crore by 2017-18.

5th Feb 2014

The South India Textile Research Association (SITRA) is organizing a two-day medical textiles expo and conference – “Meditex 2014” from Feb

10th Aug 2021

The Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU), affiliated with Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), has settled its 2021-2022 wage negotiations in the nonwoven textile sub-sector to secure a 5.5 per cent wage hike for its members. The backdated agreement is effective for a 12-month period until June 30, 2022.

25th Apr 2019

While India has classified 207 products as technical textiles for import and export, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade under the ministry of commerce and industry is ready to expand the list if industrialists give a list of such products according to their importance or export/import potential, textiles secretary Raghvendra Singh said recently.