The COTTON USA™ Technical Team led the most recent U.S. Cotton Academy, which highlighted U.S. cotton’s high quality and technical advantages alongside its robust sustainability and traceability platform.
The event in Istanbul hosted 22 participants from 14 European and U.S. brands and retailers, taking their knowledge of U.S. cotton to the next level.
How to find COTTON USA™ at SaigonTex:
Dates: April 9-12, 2025
Venue: Saigon Exhibition & Convention Center (SECC) in Ho Chi Minh City
Location: Hall A, Lobby 1, Booth L1K03
We’re weaving together innovation and sustainable fashion.
The COTTON USA™ Seminar: U.S. Cotton for Modest Fashion 2025 in Jakarta brought together visionary minds to explore performance, innovations and future trends of U.S. cotton in the modest fashion sector.
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They say not to compare yourself to others.
We say it’s worth comparing when your business performance depends on it.
The industry’s first mill comparison tool proves the superiority of U.S. cotton with:
- Increased labor productivity
- Better running conditions/less ends-down
- Higher yield in combed and carded yarns
- Higher machine productivity
- Higher spindle speed
Thank you to the mills, manufacturers, brands and retailers who visited our COTTON USA™ booth at Bharat Tex 2025, India’s largest global textile event!
This expo showcased the evolving landscape of India’s textile industry, demonstrating a commitment to sustainable manufacturing and innovation, and how U.S. cotton balances these objectives.
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Learn how using U.S. cotton can boost your mill’s productivity at Yarn Expo in Shanghai, Asia’s leading global yarn and fiber showcase!
Join us March 11-13 to connect and learn about our elevated services, data and intelligence that deliver you a 5-star experience.
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Turkish textile leaders visited COTTON USA™ Signature Mills in Pakistan to witness the full power of U.S. cotton’s effects on a mill’s performance!
Participants learned from their Pakistani peers how U.S. cotton makes their mills more competitive, while our COTTON USA™ Technical Team provided U.S. cotton spinning expertise. This event strengthened connections that began when Turkish leaders hosted Pakistani and Bangladeshi executives last September and shared their own best practices – taking everyone to the next level in cotton.
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Carlo Bocardo takes over the presidency from U.S. cotton grower Lee Cromley, who will serve as CCI chairman.
Bocardo is the executive vice president of sales for Calcot, Ltd., a cotton marketing cooperative, and has traveled extensively in the U.S. and around the world promoting U.S. cotton. He joined the cotton industry in 2000, when Calcot hired him as an assistant export sales manager. Bocardo received a master’s degree in agribusiness from Texas A&M University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico City.
We’re earning more global recognition for U.S. cotton as a sustainability leader!
Our team brought COTTON USA™ to Colombiatex in Medellín, the largest textile trade show in Latin America. More than 29,000 visitors could learn about U.S. cotton’s spinning advantages and sustainability, as well as the business benefits of the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol® and COTTON USA SOLUTIONS®.
U.S. cotton’s moment on the runway: introducing an exciting collaboration between COTTON USA™ and IKAT Indonesia.
COTTON USA™ alongside IKAT Indonesia by Didiet Maulana has unveiled the stunning "Ayara Kinandari" collection at the GARIS POETIH RAYA FESTIVAL 2025 in Jakarta, organized by the renowned Indonesian designer Ivan Gunawan.
Cotton Day in Coimbatore brought together 125 industry experts to discuss innovations shaping the global textile sector. The event highlighted the importance of U.S. cotton and India's textile industry, exploring potential opportunities for collaboration and future growth.
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The U.S. cotton and Chinese textile industries united at Cotton Day in Hong Kong to explore collaborating to positively impact the future of sustainable cotton textiles. Garrett McDonald, director of the U.S. Agricultural Trade Office at U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong & Macau, joined an audience of 130 to highlight the role of U.S. cotton in building a sustainable supply chain.
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Over 400 U.S. cotton exporters and global textile mill executives joined our 12th biennial COTTON USA™ Summit in Carlsbad, CA. This exclusive COTTON USA™ event provided unparalleled networking opportunities to cultivate and reinforce partnerships with industry collaborators from 29 countries.
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We recently hosted 90 senior Pakistani mill executives and the U.S. Consul General in Pakistan, Scott Urbom, for COTTON USA™ Seminars in Karachi and Lahore.
Our focus: showing how U.S. cotton can enhance Pakistani spinning mills’ efficiency and meet consumer demands for sustainable textiles.
We brought The U.S. Cotton Academy to Latin America for the first time, equipping future textile leaders with unrivaled expertise in U.S. cotton spinning.
Based on insights collected from over 500 mills worldwide, the COTTON USA™ Technical Team shared how U.S. cotton’s superior quality and performance can help mills boost efficiency and productivity.
Nurturing tomorrow's spinning industry leaders, our COTTON USA™ Technical Team showed nearly 30 participants in our recent COTTON USA SOLUTIONS® event in Bangkok how using U.S. cotton helps spinning mills achieve peak efficiency and productivity.
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