With 8 months still to go for the Japan International Apparel Machinery and Textile Industry Trade Fair “JIAM 2016 Osaka”, 80 per cent of the exhibition space of has already been booked, the Japan Sewing Machinery Manufactures ...
Good dynamics across all segments helped sales at German apparel marketer Tom Tailor Group climb 3.8 per cent year over year for the first half ended June 30, 2015. “Sales increased 3.8 per cent €441.5 million in the reporting ...
Tags: apparel, textile industry, fashion industry
Textile spinning mills affiliated to the Northern India Textile Mills' Association (NITMA) are considering cutting back production and shutting down their mills once a week against the current trend of operating a mill 24x7. In a press ...
Tags: spinning mills, yarn, Textile
Vietnam and EU have agreed in principle on a trade and investment agreement, the most ambitious and comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) that the EU has ever concluded with a developing country, the European Commission said on its ...
All GSP eligible merchandise including textiles will benefit from the US government's announcement of extending the benefit under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) to developing countries. In a notice issued on 28 July, the ...
Tags: textiles, GSP programme
Considering a higher demand in the field of decorative and furniture fabrics, Heimtextil which takes place from January 12-15, 2016 is expanding the size of the Window and Upholstery segments. According to a Messe Frankfurt press release, ...
Tags: furniture fabrics, Digital Textile
Gross area and exhibitor numbers have jumped to an all time high for the Messe Frankfurt organised Yarn Expo Autumn to be held from October 13–15, 2015. This year's autumn fair will take up 8,500 sq. metre gross area and will house ...
Tags: functional fibres, biochemical fibres, nylon
Affected by a variety of factors, including fallout from the Greek debt crisis, slowing growth in China coupled with its recent stock market slump, steady displacement of Taiwanese suppliers by mainland Chinese counterparts, sagging ...
More than 100 enterprises from Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Henan, Shandong and Guangdong took part in the China Textiles and Garment Fair (Europe) that opened in Dusseldorf, Germany on ...
Tags: Textiles, Garment, women's clothing, children's garments, underwear
In view of rising imports of batik textiles, Indonesia's Ministry of Trade has issued a regulation requiring all importers of batik-patterned fabrics to register with the ministry and seek special permit for import. Addressing a press ...
Tags: Textile Imports, batik textiles
For the second quarter of 2015, overall orders for Italian textile machinery recorded a 15 per cent increase over the same period of last year. An Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers (ACIMIT) press release informed that ...
Tags: Textile Machinery, Textile
Industrial threads producer Coats Group said it has developed a metallised thread antenna specifically for use with a revolutionary radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. Convergence Systems Limited (CSL), a provider of RFID products, ...
Tags: Industrial threads, RFID tag
The summer edition of Texworld USA, International Apparel Sourcing Show and Home Textiles Sourcing Expo ended with exhibitor numbers as well as show space growing by 25 per cent. In total 917 exhibitors from 40 countries presented their ...
Tags: Home Textiles, textile
There is no change in exemption from excise duty for textile goods as mentioned in central value added tax (CENVAT) Rules 2004, the Union Ministry of Finance has clarified. The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) had issued a ...
Tags: textile goods, textile industry
Integrated Fabric Resource (IFR), which specialises in the custom design, development, and manufacturing of textile-based returnable packaging systems and containers for various industries, has announced the start of an additional ...
Tags: Integrated Fabric, Fabric, packaging systems