Kontoor Brands, a global lifestyle apparel company, is expanding its Indigood programme, an initiative for saving water during the fabric construction phase of the apparel supply chain. The programme now includes any water savings technology in apparel fabric production that uses at least 90 per cent less water than conventional fabric production.Pic: Kontoor BrandsThe Indigood programme debuted in 2019 with the introduction of foam-dyed denim. Kontoor Brands, which has a portfolio led by two of

Lifting a nearly two-year old ban, Pakistan's Economic Coordination Council (ECC) today allowed the import of cotton and cotton yarn from India. The proposal was presented before the top committee for approval at a meeting convened by the commerce ministry. The ECC met today and decided to allow the import, which is being seen as an effort to reopen Indo-Pak trade.Pic: ShutterstockThe ECC allowed the private sector to import 0.5 million tonnes of white sugar as well, according to Pakistani m

China Textile City Curtain Fabric&Wall Cloth Exhibition was held from March 24th to March 27th in China Textile City International Convention&Exhibition Center. It was the first exhition in 2021 and showed the charm of curtain fabric and wall cloth of China Textile City. It covered the whole industrial chain of curtain fabric and meet display and purchase needs of the industry. It was the professional exhition of curtain fabric industry and about 300 brands attended this exhition.

According to official statistics, US clothing imports decreased by 23.46% in 2020. Apparel Resources estimates that the nation imports $64.07 billion in clothes in 2020, a decrease of $17.6 billion from 2019. Their partner countries, except Vietnam, which showed a single-digit decrease in export, were affected by this. U.S. imports of clothing dropped 16.37%, down to SMEs of 23,132.80 million in 2020 in value. In 2020 the unit prices of these imports have fallen 8.28% as the UVR was only $3.02 f

Coimbatore-based Precot Limited recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with SIMA Cotton Development & Research Association (SIMA CD & RA) for extra-long staple (ELS) organic cotton cultivation by supplying all inputs free to farmers and guaranteeing to procure cotton at market price. The MoU was signed for pilot production over 500 acres at Semmandipatti village in Namakkal district.Pic: Shutterstock“Theorganic ELS cottonwill have staple length of over 33 mm and would be sui

Japanese chain stores continue to decline in apparel sales revenues. The revenues were down by 11.50 per cent on Y-o-Y in February ’21, according to Japanese Chain Stores Association (JCSA).The data of 11,014 stores of 56 companies associated with JCSA showed the revenues clocked were 47,561.47 million yen (US $ 432.51 million) in February ’21.However, M-o-M drop was even worse than the Y-o-Y fall as the revenues declined by 19.80 percent in Feb. ’21 as compared to Jan. ’21.Menswear clocked9,485

Continuing the momentum gained by IMA Spa back in Dec. ’20 with the launch of its first digital event, the company is now focusing on giving a direction to its digital journey with a series of seminars that will focus on the main sectors in which IMA operates.The webinars are designed not just for its customers and collaborators, but also and above all for those who have not yet taken a step towards automation.With the same aim, IMA Spa has successfully kicked off its webinar series with the fir

WILMINGTON – The Lycra Company has teamed up with Japanese trading firm Itochu Corporation to launch new functional fibres made from recycled PET plastics.Lycra says the new products lay the groundwork “for a more circular future”, which is one of the brand’s priorities under the framework of its Planet Agenda sustainability platform.“This collaboration exemplifies the synergistic approach we have to develop products and technologies that support a more sustainable future for our vast global cus

According toGeneral Administration of Customs, China (GACC),the country has seen 50 per cent Y-o-Y rise in its apparel and accessory exports during Jan.-Feb. ’21.China exported US $ 24.05 billion worth of garments and accessories in Jan.-Feb. ’21 period as compared to US $ 16.03 billion in the corresponding period of 2020.The surge has been witnessed despite a lot of factories remaining shut due to Chinese New Year holidays that fell in February.As far as textile export of China is concerned, it

DHAKA - The Bangladeshi garment industry has published a report on its progress towards helping the country meet its targets on the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.The report, from the Bangladeshi Garment Manufacturers Association (BGMEA) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with support from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), focuses on the efforts of just 47 of the country's garment factories.Entitled 'A Pathway to Manage Private Secto