American television host and actor Mario Michael Lopez, Jr. has launched his debut men’s innerwear range ‘Malo’. The 38-year-old actor modelled for his own line covered in gold-coloured paint, and wearing a pair of black drawers. The collection will be available at K-Mart, an international chain of discount stores headquartered in the US. The discount chain specializes in a variety of clothing, linens and other home accessories. The California-based actor has appeared on several popular

India’s cotton exports in 2012-13 is expected to fall to 7 million bales compared to 12.8 million bales last year following sharp fall in Chinese demand, according to the Cotton Advisory Board headed by the textile commissioner. Around 65% of India's cotton exports is shipped to China and thus this year due to lack of demand from China. "China's imports will be lower as their crop is good as well as they have huge stock piles with them," said A B Joshi, Textile Commissioner said. India's

THE Mayor of Colac Otway Shire, Cr Stephen Hart (pictured) has labelled the closure of Fonterra's Cororooke plant, a "tragedy" for the region. As news began to digest in the tiny township of Cororooke and district, the Shire pledged to do everything it could to help the transition for the 130 workers that could lose their jobs in the restructure of Fonterra's Western District dairy production. The Cororooke factory was closed for two days this week to give workers a chance to recover from th

China's textile industry in 2012 continues the slowdown trend since last year. The growth rate of main economic indicators such as output, export and investment all experiences decline in the first 7 months of 2012, reported . The total industrial output of 37,000 large textile enterprises above a designated size in the seven months increased by 10.9 percent to 3.14671 trillion yuan,18.8 percent lower than the growth rate in 2011. New investments into textile industry slows down as well. Fro

Federal Textile Minister Makhdoom Shehabuddin has said that the government will provide all out support to carpet industry with a view to enhance export.He was speaking at an opening ceremony of the three-day Carpet Exhibition organised by the Pakistan Carpet Manufacturers and Exporters Association here at Expo Centre on Sunday. Besides PCEMA Vice Chairman North Muhammad Saeed Khan, Exhibition chief coordinator Aslam Tahir, Association’s former chiefs, including Maj (r) Akhtar Nazir Cooki, Sheik

The international textile and apparel fair scheduled to take place from November 22 to 25 in the city is expected to provide domestic companies a global platform as buyers from 58 countries have confirmed their visit to the event. Besides, four states have also sent their consent to participate in the event. The fair 'Vastra - 2012' supported by Union ministry of textile and to be organized by RIICO and FICCI, is going to be one of its kind in the country like the 'Stone Mart' as the focus wil

The Textile Society of America recently hosted their 13th Biennial Symposium, Textiles and Politics, in Washington, D.C. A terrific success, it attracted 420 participants from 37 different countries! Over the 3 days there were scholarly paper presentations, panel discussions, film screenings, demonstrations and tours, with additional workshops and tours preceding and following the symposium. The TSA is unique among textile-focused groups for embracing the study of historic and modern, fine ar

Japanese firm Omineshi and India’s textile giant Aditya Birla Group’s flagship company Grasim Industries has entered into an agreement to develop new international markets for rayon products, a company executive said Monday. Omikenshi is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Under the terms of the agreement, Omikenshi and Grasim are to develop the technology together and manage the increased production anticipated as they enter new markets. However, the financial details of the agreement are yet

Pakistan’s textile industry is in a quandary as it badly needs to remove the imbalances in its value chain to foster sustained exports but high interest rates and energy shortages are acting as a barrier to the Rs250 billion investments needed for this purpose. Speaking at a meeting of textile entrepreneurs, All Pakistan Textile Mills Association Group Leader Gohar Ejaz said that textile exports had increased in 2010-11 on the strength of high cotton rates. He said that in 2011-12, textile e