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Insight7 Sept 2015Imports of denim jeans into the EU bucked the trend of decline in world trade in denim fabric and denim jeans and increased by 8.2% to a record high in 2014. Bangladesh became the EU’s largest supplier of denim jeans, ahead of Turkey. Overall, the EU’s four largest suppliers accounted for almost three-quarters of EU imports of denim jeans from all sources.
Insight10 Aug 2015Tajikistan, in the CIS region, is an important producer of good quality cotton of length 28-30mm and suitable for counts 24 ne to 50 Ne. The current national output of such cottons, mainly produced in the Sogd region, is approximately 0.5m tonnes per year.
Insight8 Jun 2015Globally, the main segments of meltblown nonwovens include the three basic application types: filtration (liquid and air) media, insulation (thermal or sound) media and sorbent (absorption) media. Filtration end uses remain the biggest market for meltblown nonwoven fabrics, with a current market size of $4bn and combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.5% projected over the 2015-2020 period.
Tajikstan’s textile and clothing sector currently comprises 21 spinning mills, six vertically integrated textile companies, four knitting units and about 40 garment enterprises. The enterprises are heterogeneous and include only a few medium to large vertically integrated companies, medium-sized manufacturing companies (generally from the soviet era) and some modern SMEs that cater to niche markets.
Insight9 Apr 2015The Indian textile industry’s end of FY 2014-15 operating results are not very encouraging despite the fact that global crude oil prices experienced a substantial fall. Cotton prices also fell by 40% in the last six months as did polyester fibre.
With nearly 30% of India’s cotton output, the state of Gujarat is becoming a major textile manufacturing centre in India as well having the key marketing and trading centres of Ahmedabad for cotton textiles and Surat for synthetic textiles.
Tajikistan (Tajik) is a fast emerging cotton-rich country in the CIS block sharing a border with Uzbekistan. Tajik is producing nearly one million tonnes of premium cotton of 28-31mm fibre length with good fineness and low trash. Such cotton is capable of producing counts in the range 24 Ne to 40 Ne and, is thus keenly sought for export to cotton user countries such as Turkey, Russia, China and Korea.
The yarn spinning sector has traditionally been a risk-free and stable segment of the Indian textile industry. Large Indian textile corporates such as Vardhman, Nahar, Trident Group and many others in the south leveraged their success in spinning to become the billion dollar textile conglomerates they are today.
With a consistent and ongoing development agenda for creating and enhancing the basic infrastructure to make it more industry-friendly, the state of Gujarat has taken over the lead in textiles from competing states like Maharastra, Tamilnadu, MP and Punjab.
The technical textiles sector is one of the most innovative branches of the industry in the world, ranking as one of the five high tech sectors with the greatest potential for driving the textile industry in countries such as India and China. The ambition and versatility of technical textiles covers all segments such as fibres, yarns and woven/knitted/nonwoven fabrics with applications spanning an enormous range of uses.
Surat has become India’s biggest man-made fabric (MMF) hub, according to the first ever ‘Baseline Survey of the Powerloom sector’ conducted by market research organisation, AC Neilsen ORG MARG for the Ministry of Textiles.
Insight6 May 2014India’s technical textiles sector, which also encompasses nonwovens and industrial textiles, has failed to grow in line with the hype created by government departments such as the Office of Textile Commissioner and Ministry of Textiles.
The last three years have been a rollercoaster ride for the Indian textile industry, despite its size, product flexibility, raw material resources and government support under the concessional Technology Upgradation Fund (TUF) scheme. This was mainly due to the recession in demand from the major importing block, namely the US and the European Union, and the simultaneous decline in demand from domestic retail due to the slowing economy.
Insight28 Feb 2014With a partial lifting of the recession in the USA and Europe, the Indian textile industry started performing well after 2011. While the garment exporting sector remained subdued from 2010-2013, the domestic retail segment became the engine of growth for textile demand and consumption by a growing Indian middle class which started lapping up fashion items, particularly the branded ones. This also led to emergence of home grown brands and private labels in the Indian textile retail sector.
The Indian yarn spinning mill sector has been on a roll in the last 18 months due mainly to stable fibre supply, favourable cotton prices and growing demand from the major importing blocks of the USA, Europe, China and Korea.
India has a long history of carpet making with carpets and floorings forming an integral part of Indian homes since the 1500s under the influence of the Moghul Empire. Mats comprising a variety of materials including wool, cotton, jute, coir, bamboo and grass have long been a feature.
Indian textile exports have failed to touch $50bn, targeted by the government for the end of the 11th Plan period. This has been mainly due to prolonged recession in the major importing blocks of the USA and EU, but also due to increasing competition from Bangladesh, Vietnam and Sri Lanka, which opted for the export of ‘value adding’ garments.
Insight12 Sept 2013Ludhiana, in the state of Punjab, India, has traditionally been the centre of small and micro industrial units specialised in manufacturing auto components, bicycles, machine tools, farm implements and, surprisingly, hosiery and knitted goods.
