Safety and sustainability will be the main focus at the first Dhaka Apparel Summit. Set to kickstart on 7 December, the three-day event will also focus on how the country can achieve the milestone to achieve US$ 50 billion in RMG export by ...
Tags: Safety, Sustainability, Apparel
Since the Rana Plaza building collapse and Tarzeen factory fire, noteworthy progress has been made in overhauling the Bangladesh garment sector, US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian Affairs, Nisha Desai Biswal said ...
Tags: building collapse, factory fire, Apparel
US Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a senior member at the US Congress Homeland Security, has appreciated Bangladesh for being a role model for encouraging women working in the readymade garment (RMG) sector, while talking to Bangladesh ...
Tags: Role Model, women empowerment, Apparel
The first ever ‘Dhaka Apparel Summit 2014’, organized by the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), will be held from December 7-9, 2014, at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC), Dhaka. ...
Tags: Apparel Summit, Apparel
The garment industry in Myanmar has great potential for growth in the next 10 years, if it works towards development with strategic planning, according to the members of the Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association (MGMA), Myanmar Times ...
Tags: garment industry, Apparel
The readymade garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh has a great future and is in an excellent position to expand in the global market, Parliamentarian State Secretary of German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, ...
Tags: readymade garment(RMG)sector, German Official, Apparel
The garment and textile sector in Vietnam has to work towards maintaining its market position, in order to prevent declination, according to Hoang Ve Dung, the deputy general director of the Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group ...
Tags: Vinatex, Market Position, Textile
The garment industry in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam, is in need of additional skilled workers in order to achieve the target to become a garment supply hub for the southern region and the nation’s fashion centre by 2020, ...
Tags: garment industry, Skilled Workers, Apparel
Gerber Technology, a US-based integrated solutions provider for the apparel and industrial market, will launch AccuMark 10, a fully integrated 3D solution for garment development and pattern making, next spring. The new 3D solution will ...
Tags: 3D images, motion files, Textile
VDMA textile machinery association, associated with around 120 manufacturers of textile machinery and accessories from all textile sectors, organized a tour for a high-ranking delegation of 15 well-known German textile machinery and ...
Tags: VDMA, German Firms, Textile
The Accord on Building and Fire Safety said initial inspections of Accord producing apparel factories have been completed within the agreed timeline of September 2014. Out of 1,106 factories inspected, over 400 Corrective Action Plans ...
Tags: Apparel, Finishes Inspection
To get more orders from global markets, Bangladeshi apparel exporters should concentrate on manufacturing more value added products, South Korean envoy to Bangladesh said. Bangladeshi textile and apparel industry should move beyond ...
Tags: Apparels
ExcelSoft, a Sri Lanka-based enterprise solutions software company, has recently introduced Foresight, a new performance optimized graphical production planning and scheduling tool, designed specifically to maximize the usage of available, ...
In order to sustain the employment of people working in the textile and apparel industries in Nicaragua, the Nicaraguan Association of Textile and Apparel (Anitec) is ardently attempting to attract new investors, according to an El Nuevo ...
Tags: Anitec, New Investors, Textile
The apex bank of Bangladesh has extended its refinancing scheme of easy loans to the garment sector for improving safety standards in garment production units. This loan upto Taka 10 million, which can be borrowed from commercial banks or ...
Tags: Bangladesh, Safety, Apparel