A delegation of representatives from 18 companies from China’s Fujian province met officials of Vietnam’s Binh Duong province this week to learn about the local investment climate and seek business opportunities, Vietnamese ...
Tags: cutting-edge technology, Textile
Apparel and footwear industry software expert, Xperia Solutions, has launched the new Collaborativ Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software suite, to speed up the product development cycle, lower costs, improve communications, and enable ...
Leading apparel manufacturers from Lesotho, South Africa, and Botswana, with support from the US government, are participating in the ‘Sourcing South Africa’ pavilion at MAGIC apparel expo to be held from February 16 to 19, ...
The garment and textile industry of Vietnam is aiming to reach a localization rate of 60 percent by 2015, and thereby reduce dependence on imported inputs, Le Trung Hai, vice president of the Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group ...
Tags: Garment Sector, textile industry
In order to develop the garment industry of Kyrgyzstan, apparel enterprises operating in the sector need to expand business contacts with international firms and need to increase competitiveness amongst them, for competing in global ...
Tags: Kyrgyz Garment, Apparel, Accessories
Apparel firms in Honduras are gearing up for the soon to be implemented Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Canada. The Canada-Honduras Free Trade Agreement was signed on November 5, 2013, and it would come into force once it is approved ...
Tags: Honduran Apparel, Apparel
A three-member team from the African continent visited India last month to understand the requirements of the Indian textile industry. Dioma Komonsira, communications manager of African Cotton Producers Association (APROCA), Traore ...
Tags: Cotton, Textile Industry
The Turkish apparel and textile sector was represented by 52 firms who showcased their products at the recently held international garment fairs in France, said Uludag Textile Exporters Association (UTIB) chairman Ibrahim Burkay. ...
Tags: apparel, textile sector
Five Spanish apparel firms would be making their presence felt at the next edition of the Hong Kong World Boutique, scheduled to be held parallel to the Hong Kong Fashion Week 2014, from January 13 to 16, at the Hong Kong Exhibition and ...
With the rise in demand for sustainable and organic products, several textile and apparel firms are focusing on ethical production process which covers a range of issues such as working conditions, child labor, fair trade and ethical ...
The Biomechanics Institute of Valencia (IBV) in Spain is set to perform an anthropometric study of Spanish men, through the European project SIZING-SUDOE, in which the measurements are taken in an enclosed cabin with a scanner equipped with ...
The department of National Chamber of Apparel Industry (CANAIVE) in the Mexican state of Puebla-Tlaxcala, organized participation of 11 apparel firms from the region, at the recently held ‘El Buen Fin’ ( The Good Weekend) ...
Tags: Apparel Firms, Apparel
China has become the leading supplier of clothing to the Latin American country of Mexico, as the country imported apparel worth US$ 290 million during the first half of 2013, which is an increase of 69 percent compared to the same period ...
Business worth US$ 13.5 million was generated by 45 Peruvian small and medium enterprises (SMEs), including textile and apparel firms, which participated in the latest edition of Expo Peru-Brazil, held recently in the city of Belo Horizonte ...
Tags: Peruvian SMEs, Textile
Brazil has imported more than US$ 5 billion worth of textiles between the period of January and September, 2013, as per the estimates of Brazilian Association of Textile and Apparel (ABIT). According to a statement issued by ABIT, the ...
Tags: Textiles, garment sector