China, the global leader in textile and apparel manufacturing, is suffering from high labor cost and in order to reduce the impact of increasing production cost, the country’s textile and garment manufacturers should focus on quality ...
Tags: textile, apparel manufacturing
The garments factories located in Western and Eastern Java of Indonesia have opted for relocation to central Java because of its cheaper labour costs. Major reason cited for the relocation of garment factories to central Java is that the ...
Tags: Garment Units, Lower Labour Costs
The textile sector of Argentinean city of Oran has formalized a social enterprise contract with a union of industrial workers UOCRA to increase the production of work clothes by the apparel manufacturing firms based in the city. The UOCRA ...
Tags: Oran Apparel, Argentinean, Apparel
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
In view of the recent incidents in Bangladesh, including last week’s fire at a readymade garment (RMG) manufacturing factory in Mirpur near Dhaka, the Savar building collapse and Tarzeen factory fire accident, which have together ...
Calik Holding, one of the largest industrial companies in Turkey that employs around 20,000 people, is planning to invest in Georgian apparel sector. A delegation of Calik, headed by the director of the company’s textile division, ...
Tags: Apparel Sector, Apparel
Fiji could become the apparel making hub within the next 10 years and garment exports may become a major income generator for the country, according to Fiji Fashion Council. In an interview with fibre2fashion, chairman of Fiji Fashion ...
Alien Technology, an industry leader in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Ultra High Frequency (UHF) products and services, announced the Alien ALR-9680 commercial-grade UHF RFID reader that provides enterprise grade 4-port flexibility ...
The Union Minister for Commerce, Industry and Textiles, Shri Anand Sharma launched 21 New Textile Parks approved under Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP). These new parks take the total number to 61 parks as 40 Parks were sanctioned ...
Tags: Textile Parks, Textile
Technology is helping garment producers to become more efficient and recently a mobile interface has been released to efficiently monitor clothing production. The new mobile interface technology to achieve higher productivity and ...
Volatile cotton prices and recession-induced drops in consumer spending caused the industry to decline slightly in the past five years; however, increasing population and disposable income growth will bolster industry revenue in the five ...
Tags: Global Apparel Sector, Apparel
Sweden-based Eton Systems, the pioneer of Unit Production Hanger Systems, has launched new solutions to offer high-end technologies to achieve higher productivity and quality improvements in apparel- and textile manufacturing. One is the ...
Tags: Apparel Makers, Textile, Apparel
In March, China's manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) was 50.9 percent, up by 0.8 percentage point month-on-month, and stayed above the threshold for six consecutive months. In view of the sizes of enterprises, the PMI of ...
Cotton Council International (CCI), through its COTTON USA Sourcing Program, will host the COTTON USA Western Hemisphere Sourcing Fair 2013 in Panama City, Panama, April 29 – May 1. The COTTON USA Western Hemisphere Sourcing Fair ...
Tags: Cotton Council, Cotton, Cotton Industry
Cotton Council International (CCI) — the Washington-based export promotion arm of The National Cotton Council, Memphis, Tenn. — has announced it will promote U.S. cotton and cotton textiles through its Cotton USA Sourcing ...
Tags: CCI, U.S.Cotton, Textile