The Andhra Pradesh government’s new industrial policy has come as a shot in the arm for the textile industry in the state. According to media reports, the new policy which will be in force till 2020, provides a host of incentives for ...
Tags: Andhra Pradesh, textile industry, Textile
All of the eight Northeastern states in India, which missed the fruits of industrial revolution, are all set to have one garment manufacturing unit in each of their capitals. Entrepreneurs hailing from these eight states and with a ...
The Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), a body recognised for fire safety, signed a partnership which will guide garment factories adopt best practices and most up to date standards for ...
Tags: NFPA, Safety Measures, Accessories
UzPahtaSanoat, the Cotton Industry Company of Uzbekistan, held a meeting this month to review the progress of setting up of new textile projects in the country, according to a UzReport article. Commissioning of high-tech and modern ...
Tags: UzPahtaSanoat, Cotton, Textile
The US House of Representatives has approved a defence authorization bill that requires the Bangladesh-based readymade garment manufacturing units, who process the US military-branded garments (military exchanges), to comply with fire and ...
Tags: Safety Accord, Defence Uniform
The apparel sector of Spanish province of Madrid has shown high competitiveness with the presence of nearly 15 percent of the country’s total 10,000 apparel companies, said the Deputy Minister of Economy, Trade and Consumer Protection ...
Tags: Apparel, Madrid Very, Spanish
Following government assurance of security, production at readymade garment factories at the Ashulia industrial belt in Ashulia resumed after three days (17 May 2013). On Tuesday, Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters ...
Tags: Bangla Ashulia Apparel, Apparel, Bangla
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) and Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) have started joint inspection of readymade garment (RMG) manufacturing units in Chittagong region. The inspection team ...
More than 200 readymade garment (RMG) manufacturing units have shutdown for an indefinite period in Bangladesh’s Ashulia industrial belt, following labour unrest in the aftermath of the Savar building collapse, whose toll has now ...
The Government of Bangladesh has temporarily shutdown 18 garment manufacturing factories on the grounds of inacceptable labour standards and working conditions, Textiles and Jute Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui informed reporters. While two ...
Tags: Garment Factories, Garment
Readymade garment manufacturing units in Bangladesh reopened on May 2, 2013, after the Savar building collapse. “Yes, the garment factories have reopened today,” Mr. Atiqul Islam, president of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers ...
Tags: Garment Units, Apparel
The High Court in Pietermaritzburg has ruled that small apparel manufacturing units, owned by families of Chinese and Taiwanese descent in Newcastle, in South Africa’s eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, are exempt from National ...
Tags: Apparel, South African, policy
The Indian textile industry, employing over 100 million people directly and indirectly has been looking for various schemes and assistance in the Union Budget 2013-14 to regain its global competitiveness which faced the worst ever crisis in ...
Tags: textile industry, Union Budget, SIMA
The taskforce constituted by Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) to ensure occupational fire safety compliance in all apparel units of the country, has launched its inspection drive. The task force was ...
Tags: Garment Manufacturers, Garment, fire safety, BGMEA taskforce
The Government of Bangladesh has taken steps for resumption of construction work by next month for the upcoming ‘garment village’ in Munshiganj, according to a Financial Express report. The Government envisages relocation ...
Tags: garment village, garment, apparel units, apparel