Fiberweb, a manufacturer of high performance, technical nonwoven fabrics, has announced a $15 million expansion at their Middle Tennessee location. This follows their $12 million investment in 2010/2011 to build a state-of-the-art research and development center designed to solidify Fiberweb's position as a leader in materials technology. And a 2009/2010 investment of $25 million to construct an onsite shale-gas powered utility plant, placing the company's four-year investment in the site at $

EDANA, the International Association Serving the Nonwovens and Related Industries, has disclosed European annual statistics on nonwovens production and deliveries for 2012 during its recent Nonwoven Producers Forum. Jacques Prigneaux, EDANA’s market analysis and economic affairs director, described the evolution by nonwovens process leading to an overall growth of 2.2% in production volume for 2012, despite an unfavorable macroeconomic context in Europe. The total deliveries reached the level

An eight-story building named Rana Plaza in the Savar neighborhood on the outskirts of Dhaka collapsed at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 24, 2013. As of Wednesday evening, 130 garment workers were onfirmed dead, and the death toll continues to rise. There were over 3,000 workers in the Rana Plaza building, of whom some 1,500 have been rescued. An estimated 1,000 workers have been injured, many hospitalized and many in need of blood transfusions. Workers have lost toes, legs and hands. Five to six

Coach’s sales for the third fiscal quarter ended March 30, 2013 have increased by 7 percent compared with the same period of the prior year. Net income for the quarter has risen by 6 percent compared to the prior year’s third quarter. Operating income was up 3 percent over the previous year’s quarter. Gross profit increased 8 percent. At quarter-end, the company operated seven locations in Singapore, 27 in Taiwan, 10 in Malaysia and 49 in Korea. For the third fiscal quarter total North American

On Tuesday 23 April H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB held its Annual General Meeting and approved the dividend of SEK 9.50 per share in accordance with the Board of Directors’ proposal. As advanced by the Swedish retailer in a statement released on Tuesday after the meeting, the record day is 26 April 2013 and the dividend is expected to be paid out by Euroclear Sweden AB on 2 May 2013. The Annual General Meeting adopted the income statement and balance sheet for the parent company and the gr

American label Tommy Hilfiger, which is owned by PVH, has appointed Gernot Lenz to the newly-created role of chief operating officer for Europe. Lenz, who has worked at Tommy Hilfiger in Amsterdam since 2007, has held various roles at the group including business development manager, director corporate planning and vice president of group strategic planning. In April 2010 he took on the position of senior vice president of operations and business development, and became executive vice presiden

Kate Middleton has popped, as the old saying goes, and we're finally getting a good look at her growing baby bump in some super-cute maternity wear. As expected, the six-month-pregnant Duchess has some chic dressing secrets every gal should steal. Prints can be slimming: Kate's using a pro tip any woman (pregnant or not) can benefit from. Small, strategically placed prints confuse the eye, making you look smaller than you may really be. In this case, she's essentially contoured her belly

The country's apparel manufacturers, mainly dependent on imports of fabrics from Thai, Indian and Chinese, have now set their eyes to grab multi-billion-taka local market, alongside their usual exports, insiders said. Around 25 leading apparel exporters including East West Industrial Park Ltd., Bevelon Group, Millon Clothings Ltd., Beximco and Giant Group of Companies now look forward to doing business in the local market, keeping their export activities in tact. According to the market playe

According to the Quanzhou Inspection and Quarantine Bureau statistics of Fujian Province, textile and garment exports of 9382 batches, valued at USD 402million, the year-on-year growth of 64.22% and 75.41%respectively in the first two months. For the export situation, textile and garment in Quanzhou had two characteristics: for the first, the traditional US-European markets had a trend of recovery in the first two months. the garment and textile exported to the United States of 677 batches,

Export of Nepali readymade garments has observed a decline of 40 per cent. It has been observing a fall of around 40 per cent on average since the last three months, states the central bank statistics. There was an average drop of 39.8 per cent in the first six months of the current fiscal year and the trend continued in the seventh and eighth months with a fall of 40 per cent and 36.9 per cent, respectively. According to garment entrepreneurs, the government has failed to prioritise the maj