By 2025, the Moroccan textile sector is planning to create up to 250,000 jobs and export up to 85 billion dirhams (US$ 9.87 billion) of textile goods, under the “Textile Plan 2025” announced by Abdelkader Amara, the Minister of ...
Tags: Textile Plan 2025, Textile
Iran’s proposal for forming a joint petrochemical forum by eight developing Muslim nations (D8) has won support from Turkey and Egypt, two leading petrochemical and engineering polymer producers of the Middle East, Iranian Deputy Oil ...
Tags: D8 Petrochem Forum, Textile
Owing to recovery in demand from the US market, India’s handicraft exports surged 13 percent to US$ 256.8 million in April this year, as against April 2012’s US$ 227.16 million, Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH) ...
Tags: Handicraft Exports, Textile
A new London based system will allow consumers to verify directly with the brand if a product is real or fake before they buy, using their smartphone. The system, called Authicode, can even be set to share details like where and when ...
Tags: Smartphone Apps, Counterfeits, UK
Active in Time Limited (AiT) makers of the Splashpath Swimming App for iOS have partnered with Speedo International Ltd, the global swimwear brand to launch a new mobile app for swimming fans. Splashpath began over two years ago when Dan ...
Tags: Speedo, Mobile App, Swimmers
Simparel Inc, developer of the fastest-growing fashion and apparel ERP solution in the North American marketplace, congratulates customer Bonobos for being named a 2013 Top Innovator by Apparel Magazine. Everything about the way ...
Indonesia, one of the leading textile and apparel platforms in the Southeast Asian region, could become the new destination for the global apparel buyers after China, mainly due to low production cost and availability of cheap labor. ...
Turkey is one of the world’s key textile markets. The country earns about 5.7% of its total foreign exchange through textile export and the textile industry realizes nearly 30% of the country’s total industrial output. The ...
Tags: textile, Turkey, Weaving Machines
Thailand’s textile and apparel exports for January to March period have increased marginally by 1.1 percent from US$ 1.82 billion in 2012 to US$ 1.84 billion in 2013, according to a report by the Thai Garment Manufacturers Association ...
On their recent visit to Bangladesh, Chinese apparel firm owners have expressed their interest to invest in Bangladesh’s apparel manufacturing companies, Feng Dehu, Vice President of China National Garment Association (CNGA), said at ...
Tags: Apparel Firms, Textile
The North American Bangladesh Worker Safety Working Group, a collaboration of six leading U.S. and Canadian apparel and retail trade associations, sent a letter to the Prime Minster of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina Wazed regarding the serious ...
Japan based - Sumitomo Chemical Co. is operating its caprolactam (CPL) plant at reduced rates. “The CPL plant is currently operating at 50-70% of production capacity, as demand has gone down,” a Sumitomo official told ...
Tags: Sumitomo Chemical, Textile
A monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant operated by Nippon Shokubai will undergo maintenance turnaround in August. “The MEG plant located at Ukishima will go off-stream in mid-August for a period of one month to undertake a turnaround ...
Tags: Turnaround, Textile
Beating all previous records, India exported Rs. 11.16 billion worth of coir and coir products in 2012-13, which is a 6 percent or Rs. 640 million more than previous fiscal’s exports of Rs. 10.52 billion, Coir Board Chairman G ...
Tags: Coir Exports, Coir
SIBUR will showcase its polymer products and investment projects, earmarked for export to China and other Asian countries, at Chinaplas, Asia’s largest petrochemical products exhibition in Guangzhou, China. The main focus will be on ...