The Maharashtra government has in-principle accepted a new ambitious and comprehensive textile policy that envisages setting up of textile hubs at an investment of Rs 80,000 crore in five years, according to media reports. BJP MLA ...
The Nigerian presidency has constituted a special committee to resuscitate the country’s ailing cotton and textile industry, according to newspaper reports in the country. The direction is in line with the campaign promises of ...
Tags: textile manufacture, garment, ailing cotton
In a change of course just six months after announcing an end to subsidies for its cotton farmers, Egypt has stopped all cotton imports in a bid to assist the production and marketing of the local crop, according to media reports. Egypt ...
Tags: cotton manufacture, cotton imports
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria, including textile and clothing firms, face several challenges—access to finance, rickety infrastructure, patchy energy supplies and security concerns, says a recent Economist ...
Seven fashion and retail trade organisations in the US and Africa, including the United States Fashion Industry Association (USFIA), have called for immediate renewal of the African Growth & Opportunity Act (AGOA), which is scheduled to ...
Tags: Fashion Industry, Apparel
At the CSTPF Show, which begins from April 14-16, 2015 in Shanghai, Kornit Digital will show two high-productivity printing systems: the 6 colour plus white Avalanche Hexa and the Kornit Storm II. In a press release, Kornit said it will ...
Tags: Kornit Digital, CSTPF Show, high-productivity printing systems
The Indian and Vietnamese textile and apparel industries are more complementary than competing in nature, and so cooperation would benefit both countries, the Synthetic and Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council of India (SRTEPC) has said. ...
Tags: Textile Sector, textile industries, apparel industries
More than 36 seminars on topics related to garment and textile industries will be hosted at the upcoming 21st edition of Chinese international trade fair Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics, due to be held from March 18 to 20, 2015 at ...
Tags: Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics, garment industries
Kornit Digital, leading provider of digital textile printing solutions, has launched a new-generation discharge ink for the Kornit Avalanche DC Pro direct-to-garment printing system. The solution creates unique digitally printed garments ...
Tags: Discharge Ink, Garment Printing
The Prime Minster of Egypt, Ibrahim Mehleb, recently held meetings to discuss the issues of the cotton and textile industry, and announced that the Egyptian Government has decided to support the revival of the textile sector, Daily News ...
Tags: Cotton Textile, textile industry, Textile
The recently held annual meeting of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), welcomed contributions from African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) about their work with the International Trade Centre (ITC) on a regional ...
Stating that the new power tariff rate announced last week by Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) would seriously affect the competitiveness of the textile mills in Tamil Nadu across the value chain, the Southern India ...
Tags: tariff hike, power factor, Textile
The Government of Gujarat has extended full support for growth of textile machinery show ITMACH India, currently ongoing in Gandhinagar. Speaking at the concurrently held international textile conference ‘India – ...
Tags: textile machinery, Textile
Mombasa Apparels, a Kenya-based garment company, has opened a factory, set up at a cost of Sh2.2 billion, in Kenya’s coastal town of Mtwapa, Kilifi County. The new factory is expected to create 3,000 jobs and would manufacture ...
Tags: garment company, job creation, Apparel
Wang Tiankai, president of China Textile and Apparel Council (CNTAC), has been unanimously elected by the Committee of Management of the International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) as its new president for the next two years. ...
Tags: CNTAC, new president, Textile