The shifting of orders for apparel from Bangladesh to other countries is a challenge for the country’s garment sector, Atiqul Islam, president of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), said at a press ...
The Central Bank of Bangladesh has created a fund of Tk 100 crore with the assistance of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to improve safety standards in the apparel sector. Factory owners will receive the loan from commercial ...
Tags: Bangla Garment, Textile
India has become an attractive destination for apparel sourcing due to its fairly high level of complaint factories engaged in apparel manufacturing and exports, Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) chairman A Sakthivel told mediamen in ...
Tags: Apparel Sourcing, garment exports
People from rural Gazipur and remote North Bengal, Bangladesh’s poorest region, are now being employed in the readymade garments sector after completing a 3-month skills training programme. The project is a partnership between East ...
The Bangladesh Garment and Manufacturers Association (BGMEA) has agreed to accept the decision of the Wage Board with regards to the salary structure of those working in readymade garment factories. Talking to reporters after a meeting ...
Packaging solutions provider KDS has replaced its old corrugator board line with new line manufactured by Taiwan-based Champion Machinery. The new machinery can produce cardboard boxes by consuming only 60% of the energy of other ...
Tags: Corrugator Board Line, KDS
The All Pakistan cAssociation (APTMA) has said that it would soon unveil ‘Vision APTMA 2020’ aimed at boosting textile exports from the current US$ 13 billion to US$ 26 billion by 2020. Talking to media after assuming ...
Tags: Textile Exports
Massive opportunities are about to open up for Pakistan to at least double its share in the global textile and clothing trade of $800 billion, from slightly above 1.5 per cent to three per cent over the next two to three years. But, ...
Tags: Clothing Trade, Textile Export
On a recent visit to Karachi, Pakistan, the International Cotton Association (ICA) delivered its two new training workshops to 66 local cotton professionals. ‘Agent Training’ and ‘Cotton Contracting and ICA Bylaws & ...
Around 87 EU retailers, who are signatories to the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, would start inspecting the garment units from November this year. A delegation of the EU Accord visited Dhaka this week and shared its ...
Tags: EU Retailers, Garment
In the general assembly of the International Apparel Federation, held in Shanghai-Kunshan (China), IAF President Harry van Dalfsen announced that his federation is working intensively on a global framework for sustainability. The ...
Tags: Global Framework
The adoption of common safety standards in Bangladesh’s ready-made garment factories has come a step closer, following a meeting of national tripartite partners, the Alliance and Accord and other key stakeholders in the industry. ...
Tags: Bangla Garment, Safety Standards
India is set to start electricity exports to Bangladesh, despite its own chronic power shortages, in a project that could improve relations soured by a water supply dispute, play into upcoming elections and be a key link in an eventual ...
The 33rd Texworld exhibition and the 5th Apparelsourcing Paris close their doors, having celebrated a resounding success. The two exhibitions counted 840 and 198 exhibitors respectively. The new hall 4 and reorganisation of the sectors ...
Tags: Apparel
After having created history in the first two editions of Asia's one and only comprehensive denim B2B show, Denim Club is now gearing up to organize the third edition, on the same lines as the first two, and bigger, better and with more ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories, Denim, Textile