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  • Cotton processors in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region are planning to build a cotton trading center in the country's largest cotton planting area. The center will be located in the Xinjiang Huijin Logistics Garden, Korla City, in southern Xinjiang. It will be jointly supported by 17 cotton purchase and processing enterprises with a total investment of 1.5 billion yuan (242 million U.S. dollars). The first phase of the project, with an investment of nearly 300 million yuan
  • Advanced Supply Chain (ASC) has invested ?300,000 in new garment finishing facilities at its Halifax site, to meet growing customer demand. The company processes apparel for UK fashion retailers such as Next, Asos, and George, and has recently invested ?5 million into a new distribution fleet. The new investment comes in response to a number of new contract wins, and is set to increase the site’s potential capacity by a third, the equivalent of a throughput of 60 million iteams each year. “Th
  • The second half of the year will be more difficult for the Chinese textile industry because of rising labor costs and slugging international demand, said a senior government official. The industry is also plagued by a wide gap between domestic and imported cotton prices, said Zhu Hongren, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, at a forum on Wednesday. The ministry will support the industry through a series of measures, including encouraging innovation in high-en
  • The Russian government is to conduct a special investigation into imports of fabrics made from synthetic fibres within the territory of the Customs Union of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. The investigation is the result of recent calls from Russia’s leading producers of synthetic fibres and technical fabrics, including Baltex, Detskaya Odezhda, Don-Tex Kursk plant of Technical Fabrics, Mogotex, Tchaikovsky Textile Company and others. According to the producers there is a need to impose a sp
  • The exhibition will host a conference on "Cotton production in Turkmenistan and the world market" which will be dealt with pressing issues that the world cotton and textile industry. The third international cotton exhibition fair in Turkmenistan will take place in the Sergi Koshgi exhibition palace in Ashgabat on November 23-24, 2013, the event organizers' statement said. Turkmenpagta (Turkmencotton) State Concern, The State commodity and raw materials exchange of Turkmenistan and State Chambe
  • Massive opportunities are about to open up for Pakistan to at least double its share in the global textile and clothing trade of $800 billion, from slightly above 1.5 per cent to three per cent over the next two to three years. But, unfortunately, the country is not fully geared up to grab the upcoming opportunities. China’s dwindling share in the global textile and clothing business, because of surging cost of production there, and Pakistan’s expected duty-free access to the European Union (
  • A weak Indian rupee, may not be bad for everyone. Indeed, it has proved to be a boon for the country's textile sector. After a 5% drop in the last fiscal through March to $31.7 billion, India's textile exports are expected to grow 15% in 2013-14 on a pick-up in orders, senior industry executives said. Apart from the Indian rupee's depreciation against US dollar of over 21% since April, economic recovery in the US — India's biggest textile and garment export destination — safety issues at Banglad
  • Zambia's cotton production for 2012/13 marketing season is anticipated to drop drastically by almost half to about 100,000 metric tons due to unfavourable weather conditions, agriculture experts indicate. The Zambia Cotton Ginners Association (ZCGA) also says cotton trading during the period was marred by malpractices, with loan recovery rate at about 60 percent. ZCGA executive secretary Bourne Chooka said cotton production is expected to be negatively affected this season despite the in
  • Japan’s nonwoven production was 162,749 tonnes during the first half of this year, representing an increase of 1.3% compared to the same period in 2012. Spunbond and meltblown have kept the largest growth over the past 17 months, with a 12.5% growth during this period. Spunlace has also recorded a 9.5% increase over the past 14 months. These processes have driven active nonwoven growth in Japan, said Japanese nonwovens association ANNA. The processes are mainly for hygiene and wipes applications
  • The whole process of import as well as audit under DTRE system takes at least 26 weeks in Pakistan while in Bangladesh the entire procedure is completed in just in two hours. As a result, Bangladesh textile exports have surged to $26 billion without producing a single bale of cotton while Pakistan has never crossed the figure of $16 billion despite producing its own raw material. “Procedure of Duty Tax Remission for Exports (DTRE) scheme has been designed in such a manner that just few compan
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