PAKISTAN is now increasingly exploiting commercial value of cotton waste, thanks to broader use of improved technology in ginning and cotton yarn making that allows accurate separation of bulk and ...

Jorhat, July 23: The versatile pineapple, a staple in the Northeast, has found a use even for its "waste." The department of Textiles and Apparel Designing, College of Home Science here has blended ...

Researchers have developed a yarn from ordinary gelatine that has good qualities similar to those of merino wool fibers. Now they are working on making the yarn even more water resistant. Some 70 ...

ISLAMABAD: In violation of an agreement with the textile sector to charge its supply chain at zero sales tax rates, the government is still collecting 22% taxes on import of textile waste used as raw ...

Cotton is the lifeblood of the Bangladesh RMG industry, with our country among the world’s four largest users of this miracle fibre. The other three are China, India and Pakistan, the latter two of ...

This news release is available in German. Some 70 million tonnes of fibres are traded worldwide every year. Man-made fibres manufactured from products of petroleum or natural gas account for almost ...