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…
Apparel industry associations, stakeholders from across the world are joining hands to standby Sri Lanka’s apparel industry current facing a... Read more
Garment exporters in Cambodia are experiencing a major downturn with Western buyers either reducing or revising orders. Ken Loo, Secretary... Read more
Textile industry players in India have expressed concern over the fluctuations in cotton prices on the Multi Commodity Exchange of... Read more
Manufacturing factories in Cambodia have increased on account of the Regional Cooperation Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Free Trade Agreement... Read more
A recently published policy paper recommends, to benefit from the extension of GSP plus status from 2023-33, Pakistan needs to... Read more
Tightening of purses by German consumers is likely to affect Bangladesh’s RMG exports to the country, says Achim Troster, German... Read more
The entire textile value chain in Gujarat has been reeling under the effects of rising cotton prices that has reached... Read more
China’s current textile troubles can bring new opportunities to India’s exporters as demand for cotton from China has dropped this... Read more
Celebrating the release of the book, ‘Resolute By Design,’ Rajeev Masand, President, Clothing Manufacturers Association of India (CMAI) felicitated its... Read more
The use of organic cotton is increasing amongst brands across the world. As per the Quint report the organic cotton... Read more