Natural Fibres and the World Economy July 2019
World natural fibre production in 2018 is estimated at 32 million metric tons. DNFI, in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations …
World Cotton Day 2019
At the initiative of the Cotton-4 (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali), The World Trade Organization (WTO) will host the launch of World Cotton Day on 7 October 2019. The …
DNFI Steering Committee Meeting 2019
The members of DNFI met on January 9 for their annual steering committee meeting in Frankfurt a.M./Germany. The chair Dr. Terry Townsend reported that preliminary estimates indicate that world production …
34rd International Cotton Conference Bremen 2018
The bi-annual Bremen Cotton Conference is where specialists from the worldwide textile procurement chain come together. The Conference will provide a forum for scientifically founded and practically useful insights into …
Cotton Feeds the World
(Update: 17. October 2020) Cotton is not only a fibre for the textile industry. Its sphere of influence goes much further: it is an essential economic factor for many farmers …
Glowing Cotton – Science or Fiction
Functional fabrics also known as “smart textiles” include coatings or secondary materials with properties such as colour changing or generating electricity with movement. The challenge is that anything added to …
