The garment and textile industry of Vietnam is aiming to reach a localization rate of 60 percent by 2015, and thereby reduce dependence on imported inputs, Le Trung Hai, vice president of the Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group ...
Tags: Garment Sector, textile industry
Parliamentarians, Government officials and representatives of management of textile companies have exchanged views on the status and development of the textile and clothing industry in Switzerland. At the annual meeting of the ...
Tags: Textile Industry, clothing industry, textile
The use of water in textile production has reduced by 90 percent in the last decade due to use of modern technologies, according to a research by Brazilian Association of Textile and Clothing Industry (ABIT). Since the 2000s, the use ...
The Government of Pakistan would make a comprehensive plan, including both long and short term strategies, for the revival of the textile industry in the country, Abbas Khan Afridi, Federal Minister for Textile Industry has said. ...
The Turkish city of Bursa is all geared up to host the sixth edition of the International Textile and Apparel Sector Research and Development (R & D) Project Market Summit, scheduled to be held from April 3 to 4, 2014, at the Bursa Merinos ...
Tags: Textile R&D Summit, Bursa, Apparel Sector
Hong Kong-based Esquel Group, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of premium cotton shirts, has inaugurated a new garment factory in Luong Son Industrial Zone of Vietnam’s northern province of Hoa Binh. After the ...
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This year Turkey is expected to export apparel worth US$ 19 billion, and by 2017, the country is estimated to export clothing products worth $30 billion, said Istanbul Apparel Exporters Association (IHKIB) board chairman Hikmet Tanriverdi, ...
Tags: Apparel Exports, Apparel, Turkish apparel
The technical textiles sector in Brazil will benefit from Portuguese technology as associations from both the countries have signed a major partnership agreement for the transfer of technical textile technology from Portugal to Brazil, with ...
Tags: Technical Textiles, clothing sector, Portuguese Technology
The leading apparel and textile associations in the United State and Europe urged their respective trade commissioners March 10 to negotiate a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) that will end all apparel and textile ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, Apparel, Footwear
Recently, Chinese investors were wooed to invest in India’s promising textile sector at a half-day seminar on “Investing in India’s Textile Sector” in Shanghai. The seminar was well received by the ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Textile
The exports of readymade garments from Bangladesh jumped by 16.68 percent to US$ 16.138 billion during the first eight months of the ongoing fiscal year 2013-14, compared to the $13.83 billion exports made during the corresponding period of ...
Tags: Garment Exports, Apparel, knitwear
The exports of fabric and garments from southeastern European country of Bulgaria increased by 8.5 percent year-on-year to a record-high of €1.8 billion last year, reports Sofia News Agency. According to the report, there was an ...
International textile and readymade garment brands are increasingly taking interest in investing in Bangladesh, which clearly indicates the potential of the country’s clothing industry, said Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA) ...
For the year 2014, the German clothing industry is expecting positive development, and clothing sales are estimated to increase by 3.75 percent year-on-year, said Gerd Oliver Seidensticker, president of the German Fashion Association ...
Tags: German Clothing, Apparel
Cotton is one of the most important fibres in the clothing industry. Cindy Crawford once said "I am a product that everybody wants". We can also say the same for cotton. But does the consumer see it the same way? The International ...
Tags: Bremen Cotton, Textile