China is seriously planning to shift part of its $300 billion textile industry to Pakistan in the coming years, says a leading Pakistani newspaper. This was revealed by one of the Pakistani delegates after an official visit to China. ...
Tags: textile sector, Textile
After holding review meetings with various stakeholders, India’s ministry of textiles has initiated several steps to strengthen the jute sector. The key decisions taken by Minister of State for Textiles (I/C) Santosh Kumar ...
Tags: Jute Sector, textiles
The Quaid-e-Azam Apparel Park, the most modern project in South Asia, proposed to come up on 1,500 acres near Motorway-2 that connects Lahore with Islamabad, has been handed over for its management and development work to the Punjab ...
Tags: job opportunities, exports, Apparel
The Indian suiting fabric specialist Raymond has recently launched a new collection of finest Italian suiting materials suited for both occasionwear and formalwear purposes. Meant for consumers with a taste for luxe global fashion, the ...
Tags: Italian Suiting Fabric, Textile
Chinese textile firm Shandong Ruyi Group has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Pakistan’s Punjab, under which the firm will be investing US$ 2 billion in the Quaid-e-Azam Apparel Park that is being ...
Tags: Pakistan's Apparel, Ruyi Group, textile firm
Garment manufacturers from Hong Kong have entered into an agreement to set up their first industrial park in Myanmar, reports the South China Morning Post. The apparel park would be set up on 200 hectare area in Yangon, the former ...
Beating the slowdown blues, Indian textile major Raymond has delivered strong bottom line growth in the third quarter of 2013-14, despite a challenging business environment where macro-economic headwinds dampened consumer confidence and ...
Tags: Raymond, textile, business segment, expansion
The proposed project of Garments Industrial Zone to be set up in Pakistan’s Punjab province has been renamed as Punjab Apparel Park. Nodding to the proposal for name change during a high level meeting, Punjab Chief Minister ...
Garment makers in western Indian state of Gujarat are eyeing a larger share in India’s exports volume and are in talks with the Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) to find ways to enhance the volume of exports. At ...
Tags: Apparel, Garment makers
The Union Budget 2013-14 presented by the India’s Finance Minister P Chidambaram has brought cheer for the textile and garment industry as the Central Government has accepted their long standing demand for removal of excise duty on ...
Tags: India, Textile Sector, Garments
Vogue Institute of Fashion Technology (VIFT) decided to adopt Lectra’s design, pattern-making, and marker-marking solutions to give students an end-to-end understanding of the apparel industry. This gives students the confidence that ...
Tags: VIFT, Lectra, apparel industry, Education Program
The establishment of a US$ 300 million apparel industrial park project in Caracol township to the north of Haiti, about 160 km from the capital, Port-au-Prince, has put Haiti back on development track. Speaking at the inaugural ceremony ...
Tags: apparel industrial park, Sae-A Trading Co.Ltd, Haiti-made fabrics
To draw attention to Rajasthan government's indifference in setting up the Apparel Park at Jagatpura in the state,the applicants of the project have decided to stage a protest during global textile event Vastra-2012,slated to take place in ...
Tags: Apparel Park, global textile event Vastra-2012, protest
Textile and knitwear manufacturing units in the South Indian city of Tirupur closed their units for a day on October 3 to protest frequent power cuts. The bandh was fully successful, according to Mr. Raja M Shanmugham, Managing ...
Tags: Tirupur textile, power cuts, textile units, knitwear, textile