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27th Conference of ISC held during 10-12 October 2024 at Bucharest, Romania

Exposure visit on Chinese Silk Industry 25 May- 6 June 2024

Training on Post Cocoon Technology at CSTRI Bangalore during 5th Nov to 2nd Dec 2023

Executive Committee meeting of ISC at Hangzhou, China on 28 May 2024

Training on Sericulture and Silk Industry at CSR&TI, Mysore during 3rd to 30th September 2023

Plenary Session of 26th ISC Congress, Cluj Napoca, Romania

26th ISC Congress held at Cluj-Napoca, Romania during 7-11 September 2022

Louis Pasteur and ESS Awardees 2022

Release of Book on Chronicles of Silk

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Bharat Tex-2025; Global Textile Expo during 14-17 February 2025 at New Delhi

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Publications

The major publication of ISC is the scientific journal "Sericologia" and proceedings of the ISC Congresses

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Working Group Meeting on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study on Silk

ISC and International Silk Union, China have constituted a Working Group for developing global sustainability standards for silk. As part of this, the LCA study on silk would be undertaken in the important silk producing and consuming countries which would be later aggregated appropriately to derive the global silk standard.

Natural Fibre Coalition - Campaign on Make the Label Count

ISC is a founder member of the global imitative namely “Natural Fibre Coalition”, initiated by International Wool Textile Organization (IWTO) and partnered by organizations of natural fibre industry. The main purpose of the coalition is to campaign with the European Union for including special qualities of natural fibres in the Product Environment Footprint (PEF) methodologies of EU.

Exposure visit of ISC delegates to Thai Silk Industry

The ISC delegates visited the sericulture activities of QSDS, Govt. of Thailand and the corporate sericulture model promoted by M/s Chul Thai Silk during 20-29 May 2023. The contract farming and organic silk production model of M/s Chul Thai Silk company was really impressive.

Shri P. Sivakumar, elected as Secretary General of ISC

Shri P. Sivakumar, the Member Secretary and CEO, Central Silk Board, Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India has been elected as the Secretary General of International Sericultural Commission (ISC), Bangalore India during the 27th Conference of ISC held at Bucharest, Romania on 12th October 2024 (10-12 October, 2024) for the period of three years from January 2025.

Executive Committee meeting of ISC

The Executive Committee (EC) meeting of International Sericultural Commission (ISC) for the year 2022 was held at Pattaya, Thailand on 21 May 2023 . The EC has approved the budget for the 2022 and also the plan of activities. Apart from the procedural approvals, the EC appreciated the effort of ISC for bringing out the book "The Chronicles of Silk".

Silk Products

Silk has been intermingled with the life and culture of many civilizations in the world. The silk garments are among the living examples of the excellent craftsmanship of the weavers.

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