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ITMA ASIA+CITME 2014 will take place in Shanghai next June 16-20. It will be another opportunity to connect with the French Textile Machinery manufacturers. The French offer is very large as France is the 6th textile machinery exporter worldwide with an annual turnover of more than 1 billion Euros (USD 1.3 billion).
For the long fibre spinning industry: new techniques to improve dramatically the quality standards, the operating and maintenance costs and on line quality controls. The innovati
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Chinese tourists spend more in Manchester’s stores than any other nationality, accounting for 50 percent of international spend in the city, according to the Heart of Manchester Business Improvement District, which represents over 380 city centre retailers.
The figures compiled by tax-free shopping company Global Blue show that visitors from China spent 29 percent more on tax-free shopping in Manchester stores during 2013 compared to the previous year, with an average transaction spend of 677
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The Government of Kenya is committed to revive the textile industry in Kenya, Industrialization Cabinet Secretary Adan Mohammed has said, reports Kenya News Agency.
Making a tour of Rivatex East Africa Limited, located in Eldoret town of Uasin Gishu County, Mr. Mohammed said the Government shall channel funds to the sector to build new textile factories and also expand the existing ones.
The Kenyan textile industry collapsed in the 1980s, mainly due to the increasing import of second-hand
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The value of textile exports from Indonesia is likely to touch US$ 13.3 billion, which would be an increase of 5 percent year-on-year, due to economic recovery in the US, the country’s biggest market, Ade Sudrajat Usman, chairman of the Indonesian Textile Association (API) said while addressing a press conference at his office in Jakarta.
Meanwhile, Indonesia’s textile exports to the EU are also expected to gain momentum as the Southeast Asian nation and the EU are planning to restart negotia
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The country has once again failed to fulfil the required conditions for reinstatement of GSP status to the US markets within the deadline of April 15, mainly due to bureaucratic tangles.
The commerce ministry is now set to submit a report which does not contain any account of substantial progress with respect to the 16-point action plan provided by the US for regaining the generalised system of preferences.
This is the second time that the government has failed to make an impression on the
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Thousands of workers took to the streets on Saturday at a shoe making factory in Dongguan under the Taiwan-based Pou Chen Group when workers discovered that the factory has cheated them by using invalid contracts and signing up long-term workers with temporary staff social insurance schemes.
Yuyuan shoe factory in Gaobu Town in Dongguan is the biggest shoe making factory for more than 30 world famous sportswear brands such as Nike, Adidas, Reebok and Salomon. It has been operating in Dongguan
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If you were like me and went to bed early on Saturday night (hey, it happens), you probably woke up to a frenzy on Twitter and Instagram freaking out over Alexander Wang creating the next big H&M collaboration. So far Wang and H&M are mum on spilling any details on the actual designs, although the word newness was thrown around. So that could mean accessible pieces inspired by—but not exact replicas of—Alexander Wang's signature sportswear aesthetic. Or there could be high-street updates
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Fashion is no longer inconspicuous. After a plethora of seasons of minimal branding, the logo is making a return to collections everywhere. From designer catwalks like Chanel, Kenzo and Moschino, to the high street and beyond, logos are definitely back in fashion.
But this is only a recent trend. For a while, branded logo's were uncool and uncouth. The economic crisis focused on a fashion that was more introspective and it was distasteful to wear one's status on one's sleeves. Luxury was abou
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Textile and clothing exports from Peru amounted to US$ 272 million during the months of January and February 2014, registering a rise of 7 percent compared to the same months in 2013, as per the data released by the Integrating System for Information of Foreign Trade (SIICEX) of Peru.
According to the Monthly Exports Data for February 2014 by SIICEX, textile and clothing exports from the country got a boost during the first two months of the current year owing to the good performance of expo
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With the new MT 51/1/32, KARL MAYER is giving new impetus to the Textronic lace market, both economically and technically. This machine offers an exceptionally high level of performance for a low investment outlay, thus enabling lace, with its characteristic relief-like designs, to be produced competitively.
In this case, the MT 51/1/32 scores highly both in terms of its economic viability and its designs. The machine’s special configuration means that the new Multibar Textronic Lace machine