Italian textiles in the first half of 2014 posted an overall production growth generally outperforming the textile industry, data released here during the ongoing Italian Textiles Trade Show, Milano Unica, showed. Textiles, excluding knitted fabrics, registered a 7.6-percent increase on average in the January-June period, while the overall textile industry grew by 4.8 percent, organizers of Europe's top showcase for textiles and accessories, which runs from Tuesday to Thursday in Italy's fash

Chairman APTMA Punjab S M Tanveer has expressed concerns over the ongoing 10 hours electricity loadshedding for the Punjab-based textile industry on independent feeders, despite substantial reduction in demand for electricity and simultaneous increase in hydel generation in the country. Explaining the matter, he said that the electricity demand in the Punjab has reduced by 40 percent because of rains and appreciable drop in the ambient, while the dams are full. Because of continuous loadshed

The Government of Ghana is planning to invest in the textile sector of the country. The President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, who visited Dignity DTRT, a garment company in Accra, said the Government is taking steps to invest in the local textile industries to promote it in the international market, Ghana news agency reported. He commended the management and staff of Dignity DTRT for the good work they were doing and promised that the Government would support them to improve production to

Chinese companies are looking to manufacture in the U.S., lured by lower costs of energy, cotton and land, and wary of rising labor costs in China. The Carolinas once the epicenter of the U.S. textile industry, but since the late 1990s, thousands of jobs were lost when emerging markets joined the game, touting cheaper materials and labor. Carolinas textile jobs went to China, Brazil and Vietnam, among other places. Keer, a textile company headquartered in Shanghai, China has decided to reloca

Many of us are aware of the high turnover in high-street clothing shops like Zara and Primark through our own lives — camouflage jackets are in and out of vogue in six months, and those pleather Topshop trousers you bought and wore once will never see the light of day again. The annual fashion season cycle, I was told by one retailer, has increased from three seasons to six seasons in just the last decade.It is not just fashion either. You buy any Apple product today and a new and better version

Worries of the Punjab-based textile industry are piling up fast with undue delay in uninterrupted energy supply to textile mills. The industry circles said they are trying their level best to approach the Ministry of Water & Power for having latest update of government's strategy towards the issue but all in vein. No response has so far been received despite repeated requests, they added. It may be noted that the government had reduced energy supply to the Punjab-based textile industry i

The number of jobless garment workers is on an alarming rise as the RMG factories are being shut day by day since the collapse of Rana Plaza building that brought bane to the RMG sector. Lack of enough work orders, non-compliance with the rules, labor unrest, exit from business and factory relocations are attributed to the closure of the factories. According to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) latest data, since the Rana Plaza collapse last year, a tot

As basic wages soar in China, low-end manufacturing is starting to shift to cheaper locations around the world, and frontier African nations such as Ethiopia are positioning themselves to reap the benefits. With rock-bottom wages, cheap and stable electricity and improving transport infrastructure, the continent’s most populous nation after Nigeria is building a reputation for producing clothes, shoes and other basic goods. The sector is still in its infancy in what was for decades a Commu

RMG exports to US market have seen an 8.8% decline to $831 million in the first two months of current fiscal. A set of compliance issues and lack of proper infrastructure are attributed to the failure in grabbing enough orders from the United States buyers. According to the Export Promotion Bureau data released yesterday, Bangladesh earned only $831 million by exporting apparel products to the US market in July-August period of the current fiscal, which is 8.81% less compared to $911 milli

Arewa Cotton, Nigeria’s leading cotton farming and ginning firm, has joined hands with Government of Nigeria in distributing free cotton seeds to farmers. In order to increase the production and for the development of cotton farming in Nigeria, the Government and Arewa Cotton have taken this step as per the Government’s Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA), BUSINESSDAY reported. The ATA revolves around the empowerment of farmers for improved farming capacity. Speaking at a workshop on ‘Co