LONDON – The UK’s Textile Recycling Association (TRA) has urged fashion industry stakeholders to rally behind a new waste prevention programme outlined by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).DEFRA last week published, which it said would “ramp up action on fast fashion and hold manufacturers accountable for textile waste”.The TRA has given its backing for the programme – which details action across seven key sectors also including packaging, plastics and single-use ite

CALIFORNIA – Materials science company Avery Dennison has launched atma.io, a new digital transparency tool that creates a digital twin of products to map them throughout the supply chain.The company says its new platform can be leveraged across industry by those in apparel and footwear, as well as sectors like cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, to offer its customers and their consumers insight into the movement of goods.“We have the widest suite of use cases in the market, covering the true end-to

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world market has huge turbulence. But amid this severe reality, the medical mask market made a silver lining for apparel manufacturing countries, especially Bangladesh. In the first 11 months of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, exports of face masks from Bangladesh grew significantly. Greatly contributing to the diversification of the country’s economy.Figure 1: Exports of face masks from Bangladesh grew significantly in 2020.According to the Trade Data Monito

FC Index of Keqiao’s textile on March 22th was 107.47, up 0.19% from the prior week, up 2.89% compared with the beginning of 2021, and up 2.68% compared with the same period last year.Marketing of spring market of China Textile City rises compared with last week. Amount price of raw material market rises slightly, amount price of grey cloth market rises slightly, amount price of garment fabric market’s cloth falls slightly, transaction amount price of home textile products rises slightly compare

Hiut Denim has launched their A-B commuter jeans in limited short runs with Polygiene Stays Fresh technologies. The jeans come with commuter friendly reflective prints, they stay fresh, can be worn more and washed less, a common goal for both companies. Polygiene, headquartered in Sweden, is one of the world leaders in stays fresh technologies.Pic: Polygiene/CisionHiut Denim is cooperating with Polygiene to get the added value of Polygiene Stays Fresh technologies making jeans stay fresh, elimin

Taking steps towards growth in export markets with rich sewing and embroidery thread product portfolio, Durak Tekstil is supporting the growth of Turkish textile industry with the added value it creates. Focusing on threads with improved technical and application properties, Durak Tekstil has become one of the demanded brands globally with their solutions.Pic: Durak TekstilDurak Tekstil has a monthly production capacity of 250 tons. The company brings the sector together with new products throug

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, readymade garment (RMG) exports from Vietnam – one of the top apparel exporting nations in the world – have taken a dip.In contrast, the country is doing better in fetching better prices than its competitors – especially Bangladesh. The price gap is more than double.Figure 1: Vietnam made apparel is fetching better prices than Bangladesh.Although compared to Bangladesh Vietnam is a newcomer in this industry. But has Bangladesh mostly remained in the basic items. Where

Local Bangladeshi mill owners are making more investments in the segment of synthetic yarn to reduce their reliance on cotton yarn. According to a study by Textile Today, leading spinning mills, such as Envoy, DBL Group Matin Spinning, Maksons, Square, and Shasha Denim are investing in synthetic yarn. The demand for cotton films has decreased by 35% on the global market, according to Mohammed Ali Khokon, president of Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA) .Matin Spinning Mills, a sister of

Suffering due to the acute shortage of viscose staple fibre (VSF) and extra long staple (ELS) cotton, the Indian textiles and apparel industry has urged for immediate support from the Central Government in this regard.Ashwin Chandran, Chairman, The Southern Indian Mills’ Association (SIMA), has also urged for immediate intervention of the Prime Minister in the matter regarding removal of both anti-dumping duty on VSF and also the withdrawal of 10 per cent import duty on cotton.Both are high valu

One of India’s largest home textile manufacturer, Indo Count Industries has announced massive expansion plans!The company has planned expansion of its bed linen capacity by about 20 per cent from its existing annual capacity of 90 million metres by debottlenecking and balancing its facilities.The Mumbai-based company also proposes to make a brownfield investment for adding commensurate cut & sew facilities and for enhancing the capacity for Top of the Bed (TOB) products. This will entail a c