The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and the Volvo Car have signed a five-year loan agreement of SEK1bn (EUR102m) to finance the next phase of the company's R&D program. The loan will support financing for the development of new modular ...
Tags: Volvo Cars, R&D programme
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Pakistani textile ministry held a meeting on July 2 in Islamabad to work out parameters for the project of “Skill Development and Market Diversification” (PSDMD) for the ...
Tags: Japan International Cooperation Agency, Textile Sector
The government has said it has approved the first integrated national policy for developing skills and promoting entrepreneurship at a large scale with speed and quality. “The policy aims to align supply with demand, bridging ...
Apparel Training & Design Centre (ATDC), the country’s largest quality vocational training provider for the apparel industry, hosted a three-day event in Gurgaon this week that focused on understanding the emerging skill framework in ...
Tags: apparel industry, clothes
Shadowman Sports has reached an agreement with USA Football to provide Shadowman tackling systems for use at U.S. National Team events including Regional Development Camps, National Development Games and the International Bowl. Shadowman ...
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“The booming Indian retail sector will need around 56 million workforce by 2022,” says a report from the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). “The sector will also have one of the highest incremental human ...
Pakistan will support women businessmen in the garment sector in Bangladesh to upgrade their entrepreneurial skills, according to media reports in the two countries. Pakistani high commissioner Shuja Alam and acting managing director of ...
Tags: garment sector, women garment
India and Canada have signed two different memorandum of understanding (MoUs) for skill development in the apparel sector, the apex apparel exporters body, Apparel Export Promotion Council, (AEPC) said in a statement today. The ...
Tags: Apparel Sector, Apparel Skilling
A two-day national workshop on the textile parks sanctioned under the Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP) is being organised by the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, in Surat on 9-10 April, 2015. The workshop, ...
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The Union government has launched a new institution, Handicrafts & Carpet Sector Skill Council to promote skill development among artisans, craft persons and workers at grassroots level. The Council will operate from New Delhi and ...
Tags: Handicrafts, skill development, Carpet
The government of India and the Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the textiles sector. The MoU seeks to strengthen bilateral cooperation in three fields: textiles and ...
Tags: Textile Sector, bilateral cooperation, textiles, clothing
Pakistan’s ministry of textile industry has announced the long-awaited Textile Policy 2014-19, which sets annual exports target of US$ 26 billion by 2019. “The annual exports target of $26 billion by 2019 is ambitious but ...
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The share of cotton from more sustainable sources used by furniture and home furnishings retailer, Ikea in its products reached 76 per cent and is on track to reach its goal of 100 per cent by August 2015. Sweden based Ikea Group released ...
Tags: Sustainable Cotton, Ikea Products
Apparel Training and Design Centre (ATDC), India’s largest apparel industry training institute bagged the ‘Best Institute: Innovation’ from ASSOCHAM at ‘Summit-cum-Awards on Skilling India’. ATDC received ...
Tags: innovative skill, apparel industry, Textile
The Government of Nigeria has unveiled a new National Cotton, Textile and Garment (CTG) Policy aimed at revitalising and boosting the development and growth of the country’s cotton, textile and garment industry. Launching the ...
Tags: cotton, textile, garment industry