Sales at Puma increased 17.1 percent or 11.5 percent currency adjusted to 879 million euros (978.8 million dollars) in the fourth quarter. Full-year sales increased by 14 percent or 6.5 percent currency adjusted to 3.4 billion euros (3.7 billion dollars) mainly driven by footwear and running and training category. Commenting on the results, Bjørn Gulden, Chief Executive Officer of Puma, said, “The year ended with a strong fourth quarter showing double digit reported growth across all regions

China's northwestern region of Xinjiang is likely to reduce area under cotton cultivation by 1.5 million mu, or 100,000 hectares, to 23 million mu this year, according to Chinese media reports. China is currently the second largest producer of cotton, just behind India. The government is aiming to reduce its cotton cultivation in Xinjiang, which produces about 60 per cent of the total cotton grown in China, by about 6.5 per cent to create favourable conditions for releasing some of its stock.

The government of Belize has received $102,000 grant from the Japanese government to resuscitate the sea island cotton industry, according to Belizean media reports. Sea island cotton is said to possess fine, almost legendary qualities that are sought after worldwide. The funding was given to the Belize cotton industry for the project named 'the improvement of the sea island cotton industry'. Sea island cotton is a variety of extra-long staple cotton that is grown on a few islands in the

Cotton fabric with wrinkle resistant get popular, a team in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering reports method for making wrinkle-resistant cotton fabrics that is more environmentally friendly and cost effective. As the current methods for making these textiles often release formaldehyde – a chemical that in large amounts is hazardous to human health – into the air and water. Manufacturers typically use a chemical process called cross-linking to create textiles that are less likely t

The Italian Trade Agency for the promotion abroad and internationalization of Italian businesses, and ACIMIT, to host twelve Italian textile machinery makers to target the Vietnamese market at the upcoming Saigontex trade fair to be held next month. The 12 machinery manufacturers are all ACIMIT associated members and include: A. Piovan, Beta Machinery, Carù, Fadis, Ferraro, JK Group, Mei, Pozzi Leopoldo, Pugi Group, Ratti, Rollmac, Tonello. Vietnam already ranks eight among export markets

According to Messe Frankfurt, organisers of next month's Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics, the show is on track to be the most diverse Spring edition yet, with a number of product zones adding to the flavour. “The 'show within a show' effect that the well-distinguished product zones create, continues for the Spring edition,” Wendy Wen, senior general manager of Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd said.“The wide range of product options at the fair ensures that the textile industry can source here,

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab's bioLogic group have created a new form of performance fabric that combines biomaterials research with textile design. BioLogic is growing living actuators and synthesizing responsive bio-skin in the era where, researchers declare, “bio is the new interface.” They are imagining a world where actuators and sensors can be grown rather than manufactured, being derived from nature as opposed to engineered in factories, MIT said on its

Indonesian textile and garment makers are pushing the government to join a greater economic partnership with European and Pacific Rim countries in order to boost the country’s exports by taking part in the two international trade pacts. Anne Patricia Sutanto, deputy CEO of garment manufacturer PT Pan Brothers, said that she expected that that the government would stay committed to joining comprehensive partnerships with the EU and US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). She added that they

China's cotton yield continued to decline in 2015 as the growing area decreased, official data showed. Cotton yield in the world's second largest economy decreased 574,000 tonnes, or 9.3 percent, year on year to 5.6 million tonnes, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Last year, the cotton growing area went down 423,400 hectares, or 10 percent, to 3.799 million hectares, in China, said Hou Rui, senior statistician of the NBS. The Yangtze River Basin and the Yellow River

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region aims to create 200,000 jobs in the textile sector for low-income residents over the next five years, the regional economic and information technology commission said. The region created 130,000 jobs in the textile industry over the past five years. Twenty-two enterprises have recently opened in Aksu Textile Park in southern Xinjiang, producing 10 million meters of cotton cloth with 800,000 spindles every year. Ninety-five percent of the 1,