Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics A/W edition will be held in China, August 28 to 30, 2023, while Spring Edition will be taking place from 8 – 10 March 2023 at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai.

The event allows for integrated business interactions and promotes the advancement of the industry. As a global flagship for the industry, Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics is regarded by many suppliers as their go-to textile trade fair.

The AW fair will feature pavilions from Germany, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan while companies will be presenting their products at group pavilions. These include Lenzing, the manufacturer of plant-based fibres; Sorona, the high-performance polymer producer; and Hyosung, the end-to-end international textile maker.To enable more targeted sourcing, the fair will make use of featured product zoneswith domestic exhibitors also grouped by product end use. This is a place to meet all upstream and downstream customers to discuss technology, innovative ideas and to imagine the future.

Intertextile Apparel is a large-scale and comprehensive fair with both product and trend displays. The fair is a one-stop platform for big trading businesses. Intertextile Apparel’s Trend Forum, seminars, panel discussions and product presentations will cover topics on sustainability issues, design and trends, market information and business strategies as well as technology and solutions.For added value, fairgoers can make use of online business matching services.

India’s cotton yarn exports declined by 42 per cent from April 2022 to August 2022. The decline was majorly contributed by the top export destinations Bangladesh and China where exporters saw a drop of 36 per cent and 93 per cent respectively. Cotton yarn shipment from India to Portugal too came down drastically by 56 per cent. On the other hand, Indian cotton yarn exports to Egypt rose by five per cent while exports to Italy were up by 132 per cent.

While India’s yarn exports showed a downward trend this year, its imports from Vietnam have jumped.The far-eastern country was earlier one of the major markets for Indian cotton yarn. The scarcity of cotton along with a comparatively higher price in India has resulted in a shift in its trade dynamics with Vietnam.

Cotton prices in India are still ruling higher than those in the international market.India’s yarn exports to Vietnam dropped to $6.485 million in July 2022 from $18.084 million in February 2022. India’s yarn exports to Vietnam had registered growth during the preceding years.

But fiscal year 2022 had proved to be a great one for Indian cotton yarn exporters as they managed to tap 92 per cent growth on a yearly basis.

In the second quarter GHCL’s net profit climbed by 212 per cent. Net revenue grew by 73 per cent during the second quarter. The company’s inorganics chemical division’s revenue grew by 98 per cent. Textiles business revenue rose by 11 per cent. The company’s ebidta increased by 159 per cent.

GHCL is an Indian chemical and spinning company and sees its robust performance in the quarter as testimony to its focus on operational excellence and sustainable business practices. These factors coupled with a positive demand and the ability to leverage its manufacturing expertise has been instrumental in ensuring strong topline and profitability trends.

GHCL believes it is well poised to channelize its experience and expertise to demonstrate an industry leading performance in the years to come. The chemical and textile company will set up 40,000 ring spindles in Tamil Nadu to produce synthetic and synthetic blended yarn to cater to the knitting and weaving segments.

GHCL also plans to develop an extra high tension power transmission facility to ensure uninterrupted power supply.It will install another 40,000 ring spindles with 24 knitting machines in Madurai district to produce 100 per cent cotton yarn and knitted fabrics. The company has a commitment towards sustainable business practices and reducing its carbon footprint.

ColorJet has appointed Arun Varshney as vice-president and business head textile.

Varshney has an experience of over 28 years in the textile industry. He started his professional journey with Voltas in 1994 as textile engineer. He is expected to add value to ColorJet’s textile business. With this key appointment, the company is looking forward to expansion in new market segments along with driving growth in the existing markets.

ColorJet, about 25 years old, is known for clean, efficient,profitable manufacturinghas a technologically advanced and innovative product line and offers solutions to those looking for more environment-friendly textile printing processes. The company has a 70 percent share of textile printing products sold in India, has machines catering to the apparel industry and the home textile industry. Within the apparel industry it has machines for direct to fabric and sublimation along with machines for reactive ring, dispersing. The company’s business is growing since customers are shifting from conventional printing technology to digital printing technology. This has the advantage of low operating cost, low maintenance. Also job runs are getting shorter by the day. And the strains on spinning, weaving and big process houses are driving people to digital printing.

Performance Days, Germany, November 3 to 4, 2022, will focus on CO2 Neutrality.

As part of a roadmap, the topic will accompany exhibitors on their way to climate neutrality. To coincide with the winter fair, the event organizers will now move on to phase 2 of a 3-phase plan.

In the Performance Forum, focus topic category, the green light to participate was exclusively given to fabric innovations that could certify initial values in CO2 reduction for the submitted fiber innovations. In combination with the current Higg Index, the aim is to make it possible in the future to achieve a better assessment of the CO2 balance in the production and development of new materials and fibers for the industry itself.

Among the issues are comparing the values of natural fibers such as wool with those of recycled polyester, bio-based nylon or recycled wool, dealing with the various qualities on the one hand and with different strengths on the other and the importance of such factors as the production site and production processes within this context. Additional performance codes such as CO2 neutral and CO2 reduced are intended to make the approaches to CO2 reduction visible also for the winter edition.

The 2023 edition of Cisma will have intelligent sewing tech and digitalization solutions as its theme.

Cisma is a sewing technology exhibition that takes place in China. The edition in 2023 will provide a much better and bigger platform for technology companies to tap the rising demand for Chinese sewing equipment worldwide.

Cisma 2021, which attracted 22,304 visitors despite Covid restrictions in the country, proved to be a platform for companies to display intelligent and automated sewing technologies, particularly automatic adjustment of stitch distance, presser foot pressure, thread tension and material thickness sensing. China is a global manufacturing base of sewing equipment. Since 2019, China’s export of sewing equipment has surpassed domestic sales.

Over time the sewing machine industry has expanded from clothing, home textiles and traditional industries to automotives, industrial textiles as well as aerospace and other fields.

Cisma will provide a one-stop business experience platform. The layout of the exhibition hallwill be based on product category, the actual development of the industry and the entire industry chain. The exhibition will display different types and models of machines, differentiated brands, and distinctive products.Thesewing machine industry, after a sustained downturn, is once again facing a market demand, a huge customer base and is ready with innovation, thriving enterprises and exciting products.

China’s cotton market is set to close at a two-year low. A strong dollar and weak demand have hit trade. The country’s persistence with Covid Zero is hurting consumption and disrupting supply, and soaring global inflation has sappedthe demand for cotton products.

China is the world’s biggest consumer and importer of cotton and the top exporter of apparel and textiles. It produces about three-quarters of the cotton it needs for processing and imports the rest, mainly from the US, though annual imports through September have fallen about a fifth from last year.

The battle to contain a jump in virus cases is putting renewed pressure on China’s economy. More and more places are becoming subject to curbs. Demand for clothing is weakening as people stay at home and spend less, shrinking operating rates at textile mills, which in turn are buying less of their raw material.On the supply side, lockdowns in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, the source of almost all of China’s crop, has slowed the purchase and transport of the commodity, again forcing manufacturers to cut production. The amount of cotton processed in China is almost 50 per cent below last year’s levels. Expectations of a bumper domestic crop this autumn are adding to the pressure.

Bangladesh is unlikely to achieve its apparel export targets for the fiscal year 2022-2023.

For one, demand for apparel has decreased in the major markets, including European Union and the United States, due to the high trend of inflation. Global buyers are placing a decreasing volume of orders due to inflation. Readymade garment exports in October 2022 are expected to have fallen by nearly 20 per cent compared to that of the same month last year.

Export earnings from readymade garment exports in fiscal year 2021-2022 were 21 per cent higher than the target for that year. Also there is a shortage of energy in the country.The ongoing crisis of gas and electricity has pushed the production cost high as manufacturers have been trying to continue their production through diesel-run generators. Generators in factories are also being crippled due to their frequent use. So factory owners have been forced to negotiate orders with low prices in order to pay workers’ wages as the flow of orders has decreased in recent months.

The newly opened Center for Innovation, Efficiency and OSH is expected to help Bangladesh's garment sector transform its challenges into opportunities. A reduction of the export tax is also expected to help and there is a call for this.

Some American sports and athleisure brands have been served legal notices for using a chemical beyond safe limits in their clothes.

The chemical is called BPA and the brands include Athleta, Nike, Fila, New Balance, and Reebok. BPA can emulate hormones like oestrogen and block other hormone receptors, altering the concentration of hormones in our body and resulting in negative health effects.Even low levels of exposure during pregnancy have been associated with a variety of health problems in offspring. These problems include abnormal development of the mammary glands and ovaries that can increase the likelihood of developing breast or ovarian cancer later in life. These effects occur even at low levels of exposure. BPA has been found in polyester-based clothing with spandex, including socks made for infants. BPA can be absorbed through skin and end up in the bloodstream after handling paper for seconds. Since sports bras and athletic shirts are worn for hours at a time,high levels of BPA in clothing are a matter of concern.

Toxic chemicals can cause a range of diseases that include cancer, diseases of the heart and lungs, and reproductive impairment. Prevention of these impacts is most effectively achieved by phasing out the use of toxic chemicals.

Workers in more than a dozen countries say Adidas indulges in unfair practices.

Workers who make Adidas products are demanding an end to pervasive wage theft and union-busting.In Myanmar, striking workers called on Adidas supplier Pou Chen, which dismissed 26 union members, to stop retaliating against their union and agree to a wage increase.

Demonstrations in Germany brought together activists in dance flash mobs. In Italy a public poster campaign raised awareness about Adidas' responsibility to the workers who make its products. Garment worker unions have been demonstrating for months to bring attention to the brand’s long history of wage theft and anti-union repression in its apparel and footwear supply chains.

Workers in Cambodia have been fighting for years for the compensation they’re owed. They say Adidas refuses to end wage theft in its supply chain, prioritizing profits over people. Garment workers are calling on consumers to make this wave of activism just the beginning of holding Adidas to account.

On the other hand Adidas, one of the largest sports apparel companies in the world, severed ties with Kanye West in response to West’s controversial behavior, including making anti-semitic comments, and said it does not tolerate anti-semitism and any other sort of hate speech.