The Government of India, Ministry of Textiles, will soon launch a venture capital (VC) fund to provide equity to start-up entrepreneurs, Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Textiles, said at the annual ...
The environmental sustainability promoting NGO, Redress, has recently launched the R Cert recycled textile clothing standard, a verification standard that aims to educate consumers about the recycling process and the environmental savings ...
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The Japanese casual wear brand Uniqlo is set to expand the line up of its kidswear and babywear offerings by nearly 50 percent with the launch of new Fall/Winter 2014 season collections. The brand, which is trying to bring up the ...
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Sportsman's Warehouse will open its fifth store in Colorado and its fourth in Arizona next summer. The new stores will be located in Sheridan, CO and Flagstaff, AZ. Th Midvale-UT-based specialty retailer plans to open eight new stores in ...
The Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Zimbabwe, is set to launch Zimbabwe’s Cotton-to-Clothing (C2C) export strategy at the 5th Clothing Indaba in Bulawayo, with support from the International Trade Centre (ITC) and funding from the ...
Tags: Zimbabwe, Export Strategy, Textile
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has announced new psychophysical research proving that whiteness and color ...
Tags: Whiteness, Color Rendering, Electronics
Arion is a completely creative new product for traditional clothes ironing system. The designer Nigel Roddy has been achieved the new ironing way for mixing the function and appearance of the fan & inflatable products. Arion is made ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Iron
The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI), the apex industry chamber of the textiles and clothing industry of India, is organizing the 8th Asian Textile Conference (ATEXCON) on the 22nd and 23rd of September in Mumbai. The ...
INVISTA is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the world’s first nylon manufacturing plant started in Seaford in 1939, which was set-up by DuPont, at a time when there were just a few applications for the new fiber. The Seaford site ...
Tags: INVISTA, Nylon Manufacturing Plant, Textile
Scotch & Soda, a Dutch fashion company based in Amsterdam, US, that designs and manufactures menswear and womenswear is set to install the Centric 8 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software by Centric Software Inc. "Centric 8 will help ...
Tags: Dutch Fashion Company, PLM Software, Textile
INVISTA™, one of the world’s largest integrated producers of polymers and fibers has named Paolo Briatore as the new Business Director Apparel South Asia and Managing Director INVISTA™ India Sales & Services Ltd. INVISTA ...
A wireless suit made of smart textile clothing fully integrated into a virtual reality system can now deliver to the wearer the sense of touching and feeling in the virtual world. From the warm breeze of a summer’s day to the sudden ...
Online fashion retailer RagRetail said it has acquired UK independent fashion streetwear retailer Thomas Gun. "Bringing Thomas Gun online for the first time in their very long history is an incredibly exciting project to be part ...
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AUR Golf, the Canadian golf apparel brand known for utilizing technical fabrics in modern sophisticated forms, has recently unveiled its new men’s and women’s spring 2015 collections replete with elegant geometric prints and ...
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One of the biggest global garment retailer and Sweden-based H&M and International Labour Organization (ILO) inked a one-of-its-kind collaboration, which will promote sustainable global supply chains in the apparel sector. Under the terms ...