Certified FiberMax Quality Summit 2004
The Certified FiberMax Quality Summit 2004 brings together the world's leading experts on cotton and cotton quality to discuss topics of the utmost significance to global cotton spinners. This summit is the first in the world devoted to U.S. cotton quality and the changes that are underway. Find out more.

ACSA 80th Convention 2004
ACSA 80th Annual Convention was held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This was for the forth time after thirty-two years, ACSA convention was once again held in Atlanta. Find out more.

Olam International Ltd.
Olam has operations in 37 countries, across 12 different businesses and employs over two thousand people worldwide. Olam's twelve businesses are: cashew, coffee, cotton, cocoa, rice, timber, peanuts, sugar, spices, pulses and milk powder. Olam is one of the world's leading sourcing companies, within the core businesses, with a procurement reach, which is unique. Find out more.

Bremen Cotton Exchange 27th International Cotton Conference
The 27th International Cotton Conference took place from March 24 to 27, 2004 in Bremen, Germany and had a record attendance. More than 700 participants of 46 countries followed the invitation of the Bremen Cotton Exchange and the Fibre Institute to take part in the conference and various other meetings. Find out more.

Saiham Textile Mills With a Difference
Saiham is about to begin a new spinning mill, which would be named 'Saiham Cotton Mills Ltd', with the state of the art machinery from Europe. Through the new venture Saiham would expand their existing market niche of cotton yarn for the knitting sector. Find out more.

Understanding the Chinese
Textile Market Opportunities for U.S. cotton
The current status of China's textile industry may be summed up in one word: growth. In turn, the future prospects for China's textile industry may be summed up in two words: more growth. . Find out more.

World-Class Cotton FiberMax Certification Program
World-class Cotton FiberMax Certification Program protects the value of its premium producing lint. Cotton quality is no longer standing in the shadow of yield as U.S. farmers begin to pocket premiums, and export markets increase standards to satisfy high-end spinning technology needs. As quality becomes more valuable, more farmers are growing FiberMax cotton, which consistently produces better fiber quality than the U.S. crop average. Find out more.

Why the Spinners prefer FiberMax?
The desirability of various types of cotton produced across the US has changed greatly in recent years. In part due to management practices, but the advent of new varieties of cotton such as have shifted the focus of high grade from Western US growth, to the M/O/T styles. A new cottonseed variety was introduced to the United States based on a germplasm pool developed as a joint venture by the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and industrial Research Organisation) in Australia. Find out more.

Certified FiberMax Cotton Seed
Bayer Crop Science, the maker of FiberMax cotton seed, remains committed to maintaining the FiberMax quality advantage and increasing worldwide demand from spinning mills and textile manufacturers for lint grown from FiberMax cotton seed through Certified FiberMax Cotton, a value-added program introduced in 2003. Find out more.

Fiber Processing Overview and NEP Study
Cotton Incorporated's world headquarters is located in Cary, North Carolina. The Fiber Processing Research (FPR) group is part of the Textile Research and Implementation division. FPR staff members are responsible for the operation of the Fiber Processing Laboratory (FPL) which is a full-scale, state-of-the-art yarn processing pilot facility. Find out more.

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Olam International Ltd.

Olam has operations in 37 countries, across 12 different businesses and employs over two thousand people worldwide.

Saiham Textiles Mills

Saiham is about to begin a new spinning mill, which would be named 'Saiham Cotton Mills Ltd', with the state of the art machinery from Europe.

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