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With the forex crisis in Sri Lanka keeping the country on tenterhooks, the importance of the apparel manufacturing sector becomes paramount. Also, it has to earn more and spend less.

For one week the air pollution levels in Delhi and the NCR (National Capital Region) shot through the roof, forcing authorities to declare a public health emergency. Schools and colleges remained closed as Delhi-NCR choked under the dense fumes wafting in from neighbouring Punjab and Haryana. The capital region had its sources of pollution (from vehicular emissions to pollution caused by power plants), but the stubble burning in the two Northern states came as the last straw. Even though, at its...

The event promises to be the largest confluence of technology, professionals and policymakers from the Indian textiles and apparel industry. It its third edition this year, ITMACH India is positioning itself itself as a must-visit platform for machinery makers desirous of meeting investors, demonstrating new innovations, and exchanging ideas with user industries. The third edition of ITMACH India will be held from December 5–8 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Coming barely six months after ITMA 2019 at...

Technology is developing at a frenetic pace, reshaping life everyday as we know it. Technology is also reshaping the global textiles-apparel-fashion industry in ways that one cannot even imagine. But technology does not develop in isolation; new technologies also mean new ideas and new materials. For those in the industry, ShanghaiTex 2019 would be a heaven-sent opportunity to look at some of them before they eventually come into play and disrupt lives all over again. This November, ShanghaiTex...

If the fashion industry has to go truly circular, it will need to pick up the thread from where the longwinding value chain of the industry currently trails off--in the humongous piles of post-consumer textile waste, an estimated 92 million tonnes generated annually at the last count. It would need a colossal effort on part of industry to turn that waste back into acceptable fashion. And, it would need to be done in a creative and stylish manner. Or else, how could that be fashion? The world...

The easing of sourcing norms in single brand retail trade (SBRT) by the Union Cabinet on Wednesday last will considerably alter the retail landscape in the country. Even though, under the new norms, the compulsion on single brands to open brick-and-mortar stores before venturing into online trade has been moderated, it will now be easier for them to test the waters before going the whole hog. The SBRT announcement came along with a flurry of other decisions related to foreign direct investment...

Clothing, as we know, came into being when human beings learnt to sew. The art of sewing remains at the core of garments thousands of years later. It remains labour-intensive as things stand, and it is on this front that the sewing machinery industry is likely to see the most cutting-edge developments in the immediate future. Manufacturers of sewing machines—of the industrial scale, obviously—are possibly among the most under pressure from apparel manufacturers to help the latter cut costs. In...

The import and the scale of the event was such that even as it was palpably drawing to an end, no one was talking of the goings-on at ITMA 2019 Barcelona, but ITMA Milan 2023. Indeed. Textile technology—textile innovation, if you may—is moving at such a frenetic pace that what you would have seen today in Barcelona might just as well be obsolete by the time you are home. That, of course, is a hyperbole, but you get the drift. Themed around ‘Innovating the World of Textiles’, the 18 th edition of...

Every four years, the global textiles-apparel-fashion industry converges at ITMA. If there are a number of #mustattend events out there, this would be the mother of them all. It is an event that in many ways not only shapes the future of industry, but just living as well. And as the ITMA Services, which is organising ITMA 2019 at Barcelona this month, says on its website: “ITMA is the trendsetting textile and garment technology platform where the industry converges every four years to explore...

Close to half a lakh people from across the world would be converging in Frankfurt, Germany in mid-May. They would be flocking to the Techtextil event for a reason—leading international exhibitors will be presenting the entire spectrum of technical textiles, functional apparel textiles and textile technologies at the Messe Frankfurt event. Texprocess, the leading trade fair for the garment manufacturing and textile processing industry, will take place concurrently with Techtextil. Visitors will...