Researchers at the College of Agriculture (ESIT) of the National Institute of Polytechnic (IPN), Mexico, are developing fabrics and garments that would also have health benefits. Soon, there would be a day when clothing would not only ...
Tags: Textiles, Health Benefits
Every year in the month August NITRA offers a bouquet of intensive manpower training programs on distance learning mode to help the aspiring and existing textile & garment industry professionals. The programs enable them to update their ...
Apparel Training & Design Centre, India’s largest vocational training provider for apparel Industry, under the aegis of AEPC hosted the ATDC SKILL CONCLAVE with key panelists from Ministry of Textiles, All India Council for Technical ...
Although Chinese apparel makers are excepting good prospects by the end of this year, the increasing production cost and huge inventory pressure may have a negative impact on the sector, according to industry representatives. Speaking to ...
Tags: Apparel Sector, huge inventory
The exports of textiles and apparels from Italy to the US are growing at 15 percent annual rate, according to the Italian Fashion System or Sistema Moda Italia (SMI). Speaking at a seminar in New York, SMI president Claudio Marenzi said ...
Tags: Italian Textile, apparels
Few decades ago, African countries, including Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa, were listed in the list of world’s largest textile industries and currently the textile sector in the region is faced with several challenges. ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Textile
Following the tragic deaths of thousands of garment factory workers around the world in the past year, including over 1,100 people in a factory collapse in Bangladesh, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has announced ...
Tags: Health&Safety Standard, Apparel
The exports of readymade garments from Bangladesh to 11 non-traditional markets soared by 28.75 percent year-on-year during the just concluded financial year, according to the data from the Export Promotion Bureau. Bangladesh’s ...
Tags: Garment Exports, Apparel
Apparel Export Promotion Council, under the aegis of Ministry of Textiles, Government of India and in active collaboration with Embassy of India, Japan, participated with 136 companies, constituting over 20% share in overall participation ...
The countries that have signed CAFTA-DR free trade agreement may lose about 100,000 jobs in the textile industry if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement is signed in its current form, which allows Vietnam to import raw materials ...
Tags: CAFTA-DR Textile Sector, Textile
The Ghana Textile Garment and Leather Employees Union (TGLEU) has urged the Ministry of Trade and Industry to reconsider its decision to give seized pirated textiles to charity. The decision of the Ghanaian Government violates Trade ...
The authentic couture extravaganza of the season the PCJ Delhi Couture Week in association with Audi, starting from July 31-Aug 4, at the Taj Palace hotel, is set to make waves with two magnificent couturiers Anju Modi and Sabyasachi ...
Tags: Delhi Couture Week, Apparel
This fall 2013, Triumph is making its debut within the US. This is a new phase in their path of international expansion. "Our tradition has always been innovation and our history is one of progress," says Markus Spiesshofer, CEO, Managing ...
Hampshire Group, Limited, a leading provider of sportswear, announced that the Board of Directors, in consultation with management and the Company’s professional advisors, completed an examination of past trading and corporate actions ...
Tags: Hampshire, Operating Loss
India Market Days is a project approved by Ministry of Textiles and is funded under the Market Access Initiative (MAI) Scheme of Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India for inviting overseas buyers and buying agents under ...
Tags: India Market, Apparel