Author: Texman

Introduction There are two types of colorants - dyes and pigments. Dyes are soluble substances used to pass color to the substrate and find applicati [...]

555 textile mills closed as on October, 2011 : Textile Minister

In a question asked by Shri Rudra Narayan Pany, in Rajya Sabha on December 21, the Minister of State in the MoT, Smt. Panabaaka Lakshmi, gave the foll [...]

Nanotechnology & Textiles : Medical Textiles, Sport/Outdoor Textiles

This report covers the specific areas of outdoors/sports textiles and medical textiles enhanced by nanotechnology. In the textile sector three main se [...]

Textile crisis in Tamil Nadu : Things have never been as bad for the country’s textile heartland

The cotton textile industry of Tamil Nadu is unique for housing much of the country's spinning capacity and also a significant part of downstream knit [...]

OCM India to spend Rs. 15 crore for brand image makeover

OCM India, the the 87-year-old textile company majority owned by WL Ross and Co, the US-based stressed asset management company, will invest Rs. 12-15 [...]

Why textiles industry has failed to perform?

Export incentives for cotton and yarn should favour domestic value-adding companies, rather than competitors across the border. Export policy error [...]

Textile Minister Anand Sharma launches new logo & stores of NTC

Union Minister for Commerce, Industry and Textiles Anand Sharma recently unveiled a new corporate logo reflecting the new face of the State-owned Nati [...]

GPCB cracks down on 6 textile units in Narol-Piplaj, Ahmedabad