The Cotton Association of India (CAI) has maintained its September estimate for the cotton crop at 365 lakh bales of 170 kg each for the season 2017-18 ending September 30, 2018. The estimate has continued with the same level as in the previous month. Further, CAI has estimated the shipment of cotton up to September 2018 at 69 lakh bales. The projection for total cotton supply up to September 30, 2018 was 416.00 lakh bales which consists the arrival of 365.00 lakh bales up to September 30, 20

Courtesy: Centric Software Bombas, the innovative, comfort-focused sock brand that donates a pair of socks to homeless shelters for every pair sold, has selected Centric Software’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Centric Software provides innovative enterprise solutions to fashion, retail, outdoor, and consumer goods companies to achieve digital transformation goals. Bombas is a swiftly growing company with plans to expand into new product categories in the near future. Accordi

Courtesy: Kornit Digital Kornit Digital has opened a new North American Headquarters and Experience Centre in Englewood, New Jersey. This will give the company opportunity to showcase and demonstrate its complete line of digital textile printing systems, consumables, and accessories to customers, partners, and innovators considering adding such technology to their print strategies. The new North American Headquarters and Experience Centre represents the company’s significant investment in t

Courtesy: Grace Sidi Kerir Petrochemicals Co (SIDPEC) has got the license for Unipol PP Process Technology by W R Grace, the leading independent supplier of polyolefin catalyst technology and polypropylene (PP) process technology. SIDPEC, leader in production of polyethylene in Egypt, will now produce value-added polypropylene products using the most up-to-date technology. Located in Alexandria, Egypt, the new, world-scale capacity SIDPEC facility will produce 450 KTA of polypropylene.

Leading Ukrainian textile fabric seller and producer Textile-Kontakt Group plans to invest up to 100 million Ukrainian hryvnia (UAH) in 2019 in a new fabric-manufacturing unit in Chernihiv. UAH 30 million will be invested this year as the company is scheduled to open in December. The annual capacity of the plant will be 2-3 million meters of fabric. The unit will create up to 80 jobs and when it reaches full production capacity by 2019 end, 100 more jobs will be created, according to a news

A steady growth in China’s e-commerce sector continues as online shops further integrate with physical stores, according to 100ec.cn, which said new retail and social e-commerce have become the driving forces for the boom. In the first half of 2018, total retail sales of consumer goods in China reached 18 trillion yuan, up 9.4 per cent year-on-year. Online retail market transactions rose 30.1 per cent in the period to 4.08 trillion yuan, or 22.7 per cent of the total, a report by the e-comme

Global buyers and investors have urged Dhaka to allow a ‘Transition Accord’ for the readymade garment (RMG) sector until a national body to take over the factory safety responsibility becomes fully prepared. Bangladesh Investor Initiative (BII), a group of institutional investors from 12 countries, is concerned over the imminent termination of the Accord in November. The decision for a transition monitoring committee was adopted in a meeting of various stakeholders in Dhaka in October last y

The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) included certain Amazon marketplaces in its submission to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) identifying foreign markets that facilitate the sale of counterfeits. AAFA identified amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom), amazon.ca (Canada) and amazon.de (Germany) in its submission. The submission was part of USTR’s 2018 Special 301 out-of-cycle review of notorious markets, which identifies foreign physical and online market

Gerber Technology has acquired San Francisco-based Avametric, one of the world’s leading cloth simulation technology, to provide end-to-end 3D solution for the fashion industry. Avametric develops and enables fashion brands to deliver accurate 3D renderings of their products on customisable avatars for e-commerce and augmented reality (AR) applications. This move will position Gerber as the leader in 3D for the fashion and apparel industry. The acquisition follows 12 months of collaboration

Courtesy: Sonoco Sonoco, a diversified global packaging company, has taken over the remaining 70-per cent interest in the joint venture of Conitex Sonoco, a vertically integrated company manufacturing paper-based cones and tubes for textile industry. The Conitex Sonoco joint venture was formed in 1998 between Texpack and Sonoco’s former North America textile cone business. Texpack is a Spanish-based global provider of paper-based packaging products. Sonoco acquired the remaining 70-perc