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Heimtextil India is taking place in New Delhi, June 25 to 27, 2015.
As many as 150 companies from seven countries are showcasing home furnishing fabrics and home decor designs.
Bath linen, kitchen textiles, window decorations, furniture fabric salon, textile floor coverings and other products from India, China, Pakistan, Germany, Nepal, Thailand and the US are being showcased at the three-day fair.
In addition to providing a platform for business, Heimtextil India is accompanied by high quality seminars and informative lectures on topical themes. Heimtextil India offers a comprehensive approach to home and contract textile professionals.
With its wide range of product groups, Heimtextil provides exclusivity, structure and orientation for the industry.
Heimtextil India joins the world's most renowned home and contract textiles trade fair brand. The show is organized by Messe Frankfurt Trade Fairs India, the Indian subsidiary of one of the world's leading exhibition organisers.
Heimtextil is the biggest and the most important platform for manufacturers, retailers and designers around the world. It has shows in Frankfurt, Tokyo, New York, Moscow, Shanghai and now New Delhi.
The Messe Frankfurt group has a global network of 28 subsidiaries and around 50 international sales partners, allowing it to serve its customers on location in more than 160 countries.
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Karnataka, feels the reduction in import duty on cheap Chinese raw silk would badly affect the indigenous Indian manufacture of raw silk.The budget for 2015-16 has reduced the import duty on Chinese raw silk from 15 per cent to 10 per cent.
With prices falling steeply in the raw silk and cocoon markets, the state wants the Centre to increase customs duty to 30 per cent or at least restore it to 15 per cent.
Varanasi and Karnataka are facing a similar problem due to China silk. The famed Mysuru silk comes from Karnataka. About six lakh weavers in the prime minister’s constituency of Varanasi, who use raw Mysuru silk -called Bengaluru silk there -to weave the famous Benaras handloom silk sari.
A non-governmental organisation in Varanasi, the State Alliance for Rights, Empowerment and Livelihood, which facilitated the GI tag for the Benaras silk sari, is also fighting the battle against Chinese raw silk and fabric flooding the market.
Benaras silk sari and Mysuru raw silk are heritage products and have gained international recognition and repute.
Karnataka is hoping that prime minister Modi will listen to the need of his constituents and intervene to help the Karnataka sericulturists.
Vietnam is the second largest textile and garment exporter to South Korea, making up one-fourth of South Korea’s garment market, after China.South Korea imported 627.4 million dollars in textiles and garments from Vietnam in the first four months of this year.
The turnover marks an increase of 8.25 per cent over the same period last year. The growth is part of a larger trend. After the Asean – Korea Free Trade Agreement (AKFTA), Vietnam’s textile and garment industry saw significant growth.
In 2011, the sector’s export turnover to South Korea was 900 million dollars. A year later it increased to 1.1 billion dollars and in 2013 it reached 1.6 billion dollars. Last year’s total was a staggering 27 per cent increase over that of 2013.
The growth should only continue with the recently signed AKFTA. According to its open-access commitment, Vietnamese textile and garment products that satisfy certificate of origin norms will enjoy zero tariffs once the agreement takes effect from January 1, 2016. Currently, Vietnamese firms pay a tax of 8 to 13 per cent.
South Korea is Vietnam’s fourth largest importer of textiles and garments, accounting for more than 10 per cent of the market’s export turnover.
With the trend toward simplifying the shopping and the wearing experience, consumers want clothing that can transition with the demands of the day.
Men want a better fit. They want outdoor clothing that they can also easily wear in an urban setting without looking or feeling out of place. Many women love wearing their black workout leggings for social occasions. There’s been a sizeable shift in corporate culture recently, with active and outdoor wear being embraced by busy professionals.
Companies are starting to understand the need for commuter wear. The merging of technologies like Invista’s T400 and Coolmax has been a real turning point. The fibers provide just enough stretch and freedom of movement for biking and hiking, which in turn makes for an ideal foundation for casual business clothing.
Invista, leading fiber producer and parent company of lycra, is taking its technological expertise into the world of fashion in a new partnership with emerging designers that explores the style potential of functional clothing.
Invista’s collection is a true merging of fashion and function. The challenge for designers is to incorporate Invista’s breakthrough fabrics and fibers into designs that could live just as comfortably in an outdoor setting as a conference room.
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India's exports of readymade garments jumped 33 per cent from 2013-14 to 2014-15.The expectation is that the stupendous uptrend will continue for the next three years
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In the new trade policy, the government has provided export incentives to the tune of five to six per cent to garment exporters. With the government’s focus on the Make in India theme, there is an increasing focus on facilitating exports of garments. Textile companies are finding it relevant and profitable to export garments rather than raw materials.
Demand revival in the US and European Union emerging from economic activities picking up in these markets has boosted garment export during the year. The US and the European Union account for the bulk of apparel exports from India.
Lastly, there is a shift in demand for garments from China to India. The rise in labor and power costs has made production in China expensive compared to India.
The strong performance by India this year was also a reflection of a progressive decline in Chinese exports to major markets such as the US, currency appreciation in Indonesia, labor unrest in Asian competitor Cambodia and safety concerns after a major factory fire in Bangladesh last year.
In contrast to the growth in readymade garment exports, cotton yarn export has been tepid. Export of cotton yarn declined 29 per cent in 2014-15 as China reduced its buying from India.
Sportscraft and Woolmark continue their long-standing partnership with a sophisticated capsule of wool pieces for winter 2015.The capsule collection consists of beautifully soft wool garments, all of which possess the iconic Woolmark symbol, signifying pure new wool and the highest mark of quality.
The long history of collaboration between the two brands reinforces the mutual commitment to supporting the Australian wool industry and highlighting the beauty of the world’s finest fiber, Australian merino wool.
For winter 2015 modern knit jumpers, chunky turtlenecks and cardigans, coats and luxurious dresses are realised in camel, grey, taupe, cream and winter white tones livened by pops of tangelo orange and citrus. Key pieces include luxe wool winter coats in soft pink and grey, chunky sleeveless knits in grey and taupe, sophisticated suiting and a range of merino wool essentials perfect for winter layering.
Sportscraft was founded in 1914 in Australia. It is a fashion and lifestyle brand. It caters to men and women with a range of clothing and accessories that epitomises authentic Australian style.
Woolmark is the global authority on wool. It highlights Australian wool’s position as the ultimate natural fiber and premier ingredient in luxury apparel. The Woolmark logo provides assurance of the highest quality and represents pioneering excellence and innovation from farm through to finished product.
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The global organic cotton market has witnessed a ten per cent rise in production largely due to increased market demand as well as more collaborations between farmers and the textile supply chain.
The total amount of organic cotton used by the top ten brands has grown by 25 per cent since 2014. The coming year will see further growth by around 15 to 20 per cent.
Of the total global organic fiber production, 96.7 per cent is produced in the top five organic cotton producing countries. This indicates a need to spread out production and supply chains to more countries to extend the reach of organic cotton.
Pesticides and fertilizers used to grow non-organic cotton have a harmful impact on the environment. Organic cotton is sourced from suppliers who use sustainable farming and production processes. This means it avoids the use of chemicals, hormones and preservatives which damage the earth and are harmful to people. 100 per cent organic cotton that’s used for T-shirts is dyed using a 100 per cent organic process.
India is the largest producer of organic cotton in the world, accounting for two-thirds of the global organic cotton production.
Vietnam's geographical location in Asia, with good access to India, China and south east Asia, leaves it well placed to trade with its fast growing neighbors.
Vietnam's fastest growing export destinations in the decade to 2030 will be China, India and Malaysia. The country’s exports to all these markets are expected to grow by at least 14 per cent per year.
Vietnam is ranked 75th out of 189 economies on the ease of trading across borders, well ahead of both China and India. The ranking reflects Vietnam’s role as a regional trading hub and its efforts to dismantle barriers to free trade.
Although the US was still Vietnam’s largest export market in 2013, signs are that China will overtake it to become Vietnam’s largest export destination by 2030. Vietnam’s location and strong foothold in both clothing and telecom means it is well-placed to access this buoyant consumer market.
Yet the US and Vietnam enjoy historically strong commercial linkages. By 2030 the US will account for 15 per cent of Vietnam’s exports. Vietnam and the United States are two of the 12 countries currently negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership. When the agreement is finalized, Vietnam’s exports will become even more competitive in the US, probably boosting trade between the two countries.
The Cotton Development and Research Association (CDRA) has launched kapas plucking machines for farmers. The association had been making attempts to manufacture cotton picking machines to suit Indian cotton crop conditions and bring down the cost for farmers since there is a shortage of labor for cotton picking.
It developed the battery-powered, portable, handheld kapas plucking machine in association with Coimbatore-based Point Industries. The machine is provided with a cotton collection bag. With manual picking, a farm worker will be able to pick 13 kg to 15 kg of kapas a day and the farmer pays Rs 230 to Rs 250 as wages. This works out to over 35 per cent of the kapas’ cost. With the machine, the cost can be reduced to less than seven per cent of the kapas’ price.
The association would appoint distributors for sale of the machine to farmers. The response to the machine so far has been encouraging. The association has appealed to the state government to reduce the value added tax on the machine to five per cent from the current 14.5 per cent. It had conducted several field trials before launching it for sale.
The German-led Partnership for Sustainable Textiles (GPST) has been making headway on its promise to bring about social, ecological and economic improvements all along the textile supply chain. Since October the GPST has modified its approach, and its membership has grown to over 100. It includes practically all Germany’s major retailers and garment companies.
The GPST has, in fact, has a wide range of members intended to bring about social, ecological and economic improvements all along the textile supply chain. It wants 75 per cent of Germany’s textile market volume to join it by 2018.
It has drawn up standards for the whole raw material and textile and clothing production chain, especially in five areas: building safety; better industrial relations; achieving living wages; fiber production, especially for cotton; reducing harmful chemicals, initially, focusing on water contamination.
It also plans to develop production facility pools in major producer countries, especially Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Pakistan and Vietnam.
The initiative has managed substantial improvements to textile and clothing production facilities in countries accounting for over half the world’s apparel production and has support from a critical mass of garment buyers and pressure groups.
GPST’s formula is that of quiet government intervention and joint management by companies and non-profits.
