KARACHI - Pakistan's largest vertically integrated denim company, Soorty, has launched an initiative to increase the use of organic cotton in the denim supply chain..The Soorty Organic Cotton Initiative (SOCI) has been launched in partnership with the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Pakistan as well as the provincial government of Balochistan's Department of Agriculture.The Laudes Foundation is also supporting the project which is aimed at reducing the use of chemicals and fertilisers

Australia’s Security Matters (SMX), a platform for authenticating chemical markers and blockchain, recently signed a cooperation agreement with the Israeli Cotton Board (ICB) to certify and trace organic and conventional cotton, which represents all cotton farmers in the country, from seed to product. The first project will label conventional and organic cotton at the field level.Pic: StockStudio Aerials / Shutterstock.comThe process will ensure identification of cotton products at the end of li

Prospects of an economic rebound in South Asia are firming up as growth is set to rise by 7.2 per cent in 2021 and 4.4 per cent in 2022, climbing from historic lows in 2020 and putting the region on a path to recovery, according to the World bank, which recently said growth is, however, uneven and economic activity well below pre-COVID-19 estimates.Pic: World BankThat is because many businesses need to make up for lost revenue and millions of workers, most of them in the informal sector, still r

UNESCO and the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) recently joined hands to support lifelong learning among garment factory workers across the country. The strategic partnership through GMAC’s Cambodian Garment Training Institute (CGTI) will help ensure that the accredited Factory Literacy Programme (FLP) developed by the ministry of education Youth and Sport (MoEYS) and UNESCO will involve GMAC’s participation in its implementation.Pic: ShutterstockThe Cambodian garment sector

QUEENSLAND – WoolProducers Australia, a native grower body, has described Australian Wool Exchange’s (AWEX) review of its National Wool Declaration (NWD) as “premature”, and believes this year’s document shouldn’t be finalised until conclusions are drawn from ongoing pain relief trials into the freeze branding procedure.Contentious proposals to differentiate between mulesed wool and freeze branded wool led to several rounds of consultations among stakeholders last year, before AWEX reverted to o

FC Index of Keqiao’s textile on March 29th was 107.82, up 0.33% from the prior week, up 3.23% compared with the beginning of 2021, and up 3.08% compared with the same period last year.Marketing of spring market of China Textile City rises this week. Amount price of raw material market drops compared with last week, amount price of grey cloth market rises obviously, amount price of garment fabric market’s cloth falls slightly, transaction amount price of home textile products drops slightly compa

It was showed that export turnover ofmarket purchasing of China Textile City had been1 billion yuan on March 30th and there had been 1887 deals of export goods of market purchasing.China Textile City is the onlypilot area of the new mode of trade—— market purchasing in Shaoxing and has play an active part in domesticeconomic cycle and internationaleconomic cycle.The progress can't take place without the help of ShaoxingBureau of Commerce, Shaoxing Customs and KeqiaoBureau of Commerce.

Due to sincere efforts of the Tiruppur Exporter’s Association (TEA), the ministry of textiles is now examining and working to resolve the crisis that emerged from the frequent increase in yarn prices and disruptions in regular supply of yarn, according to TEA president Raja M Shanmugham, who recently expressed confidence about a positive solution emerging.Pic: ShutterstockInternational cotton prices has now started coming down—of course not to the level of domestic cotton prices—and in line with

Top German scientists have found that wearing certain types of face masks for long periods of time could result in potentially hazardous chemicals and harmful microplastics being inhaled deep into human lungs.Professor Michael Braungart, director at the Hamburg Environmental Institute and co-founder of the world-renowned Cradle to Cradle environmental standard has toldEcotextile Newsthat mask wearers unwittingly run the risk of breathing in carcinogens, allergens and tiny synthetic microfibres b

LONDON– Animal rights group Four Paws has ranked 38 leading apparel brands based on their commitments to banning the controversial practice of mulesing within their supply chains.Rankings range from ‘mulesing-free champions’ including Patagonia and Ortovox to ‘black sheep’ Max Mara and Escada.Rebecca Picallo Gil, a wool campaign manager at Four Paws, said:“We are calling on fashion brands to take responsibility for the health of sheep throughout the supply chain. This includes publicly committin