The International Labour Organization’s (ILO’s) Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) monitoring program is losing its relevance and effectiveness in ensuring better work and wage conditions, especially to garment workers, says a ...
Tags: garment workers, Apparel, garment
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), together with South-Asia Enterprise Development Facility (SEDF), has presented environmental compliance awards to 25 garment manufacturing firms. The recipient ...
Tags: BGMEA, SEDF, Garment Firms
Lumiere, the state of the art knitted fabric manufacturing facility in Sri Lanka which commenced operations a few months ago has provided a unique opportunity to all garment manufacturers serving fashion orders. Hitherto garment ...
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More than 3,000 mid-level readymade garment (RMG) factory workers in Bangladesh received fire safety training under the crash programme launched by Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA). About 3,359 workers ...
The Bangladesh garment sector, especially the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), should organize road shows in Brazil, Japan, Russia and the US to boost the image of the country’s garment sector, ...
Tags: garment sector, BGMEA, CAFAXPO 2013
Cambodian garment industry is attracting huge foreign investments due to tax incentives and duty free access to world’s major markets like the US and the UK. In a conversation with fibre2fashion, the business development manager of ...
Tags: garment sector, garment industry, Garment Manufacturers
Around 150 textile and garment firms of Pakistan participated in a series of fire safety seminars and training courses organized by Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP). The seminars were conducted with an objective to ...
Tags: WRAP, Fire Safety Seminars, Pakistan
Myanmar apparel industry is expecting rapid export growth this year due to increasing demand for export orders from Japan and South Korea. Export orders for Myanmar clothing from Japan doubled from US$ 170 million in 2010 to US$ 350 ...
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The knitwear cluster in Tirupur, located in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, has managed to overcome the problems posed by the closure of dyeing and bleaching units in the region. The dyeing units were shutdown around two years ...
Pakistan Readymade Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PRGMEA) has urged the Pakistan Government to expedite implementation of 27 international conventions necessary to apply for the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) ...
Garment manufacturers and exporters in Pakistan have urged the Government to end the duty and tax remission for export (DTRE), in the upcoming new Trade Policy, Daily Times reported. In a plea to the Federal Minister of Commerce Amin ...
Tags: Pakistan, Garment Exporters, DTRE
TECHNOTEX 2013 will see Taiwan's leading technical textiles manufacturers showcasing their high performance and quality textile products for the first time in India. The Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) & Taiwan Textile Federation (TTF) is ...
Tags: Taiwan, technical textiles manufacturers, textile products, Delhi
The New Year has evoked mixed outlook for the garment industries in the Asian region.A few of the industry representatives in the region feel that the industry will prosper,while others maintain that not much has changed at the ground-level ...
The denim industry is typically a guzzler of water. It also uses a significant quantity of chemicals in its processes and consumes a vast amount of energy in its operations. Denim and green, therefore, have long been mutually contradictory ...
Tags: A.T.E, Denim Fabric Processing, Green
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division and the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement found serious violations of federal and state labor laws by each of 10 garment contractors inspected during a sweep of a single ...
Tags: garment district, garment, garment contractors, garments producing