Textile Market Feature

A new era of comfort is unfolding in the textile industry, driven by the innovative twistless yarn technology.

The Indian textile and apparel sector is passing through a severe mid-cycle shock, as steep, US tariffs overshadow the domestic spinning segment's competitive gains from a depreciating rupee and government-backed cotton procurement.

Ramkumar Sankarapandian’s decisive foray into Surat, the epicentre of India’s Man-Made Fibre (MMF) ecosystem is beginning to unsettle a textile cluster long defined by decentralised production and razor-thin margins.

India’s textile industry is targeting a move away from its historic cotton dominance towards the globally preferred and higher-margin Man-Made Fiber (MMF) and technical apparel segments.

In the lanes and industrial estates surrounding Tirupur, the whirr of fibre-opening machines blends with the rhythmic hum of rotor spinning lines.

India’s man-made fibre (MMF) ecosystem is undergoing one of its most abrupt pricing resets in recent memory.

The Indian textile and apparel sector is passing through a severe mid-cycle shock, as steep, US tariffs overshadow the domestic spinning segment's competitive gains from a depreciating rupee and government-backed cotton procurement.

India’s textile industry is targeting a move away from its historic cotton dominance towards the globally preferred and higher-margin Man-Made Fiber (MMF) and technical apparel segments.

In the towering canopies of Southeast Asia’s tropical rainforests grows a tree so colossal and ancient it seems more myth than matter.

For decades, the Indian textile industry, one of the world’s largest integrated manufacturing ecosystems survived under the shadow of petrochemical price shocks.

In India’s industrial corridors, a new material is beginning to define the next chapter of advanced manufacturing, carbon fibre.

India’s textile industry, long dominated by cotton, is entering a new phase of material evolution.

Challenging one of the textile industry’s most persistent assumptions that natural fibers are nearing their peak Marcelo Duarte Monteiro of the Brazilian Cotton Growers Association (Abrapa) delivered an unapologetically optimistic keynote at the recent ITMF Annual Conference & IAF World Fashion Convention in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

In a decisive move expected to re-energize India's vast textile value chain, the Ministry of Textiles has rescinded the Quality Control Order (QCO) for Viscose Staple Fibres (VSF) with immediate effect.

India’s push to transform its textile sector and achieve an ambitious $100 billion export target by 2030 is being framed by industry leaders as a high-stakes bet on administrative reforms.

When US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping struck a fragile understanding in Busan recently, it sent tremors across the $70 billion global cotton trade.

In a policy reversal that has sent ripples across India’s synthetic fibre ecosystem, the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers has rescinded several Quality Control Orders (QCOs)

The global natural fiber sector is currently facing significant challenges and opportunities, with new research and technological advancements reshaping the industry.

A quiet trade rift is unravelling across the textile corridors of South Asia.

In a landmark move for sustainable fashion, H&M Group Ventures has announced its first textile investment in India, backing AltMat, a company that transforms agricultural residues into a natural cellulose fiber.