UK-based Coats has a growing presence in Bangladesh. Coats is a global leader in industrial thread and consumer textile crafts. It has been operating in the country since 1989 and…
The Free Trade Union in Cambodia has come out in favor of a new minimum wage for garment workers, far lower than what many of its counterparts have been agitating…
ITMA 2015 will be held from November 12 to 19 in Italy. This edition will showcase end-to-end solutions for the entire textile and garment making chain. To date, 1,380 exhibitors…
Despite a recent spat over territorial dispute between Chinese and Vietnamese ships in the South China or Eastern Sea yet companies from Taiwan or other places in Asia, the country…
The Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) has no money to buy raw jute. This is because of a delay in financial disbursement from the government. The procurement of raw jute…
The International Labor Organisation has urged the Bangladesh government to waive around $1 million of value-added tax generated from the spending on a project involving readymade garment factory inspection. ILO…
Vietnam expects the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to be signed in 2015. Meanwhile Chinese, Hong Kong and Taiwanese investors have started increasing their investment in…
BTK Holding, one of Russia's largest producers of technical textiles and apparel is commissioning a large-scale facility for this purpose. The company has already completed preparatory work for the launch…
Global fiber producer Invista has introduced a new bio-derived spandex that uses fiber from a renewable source made from dextrose derived from corn. The use of renewable feedstock results in…
Hit hard by the pandemic, America’s apparel manufacturers are moving away from the Trump administration’s ‘America First’ Biden’s ‘Buy American’... Read more
The yet to recover apparel business and fresh lockdowns in EU and US has led to a 40 per cent... Read more
China is waking up to a new trend of luxury sportswear collaborations. This can be seen from the recent influx... Read more
Aiming to achieve $39 billion in exports this year, the Vietnamese garment and textile industry has moved away from high-end... Read more
COVID-19 has taught apparel retailers some very important lessons and that is: shifting retail online can be lucrative. Many retailers... Read more
Though the pandemic affected the entire fashion sector, its impact on workers was massive. Halting of thousands in-progress or finished... Read more
The unlocking of Indian economy has helped revive demand for MMF fibers in the country. As a report by Textile... Read more
As per Comtrade figures, till 2017 India was the world’s second largest exporter of textiles and clothing after China. However,... Read more
Bangladesh is set to be the global recycling hub as fast-fashion brands like H&M and Target have collaborated to launch... Read more
The pandemic saw India emerge as the world’s second largest manufacturer of PPE kits, after China. The textile ministry encouraged... Read more