The Vietnam? domestic textile and garment industry requires a massive investment capital flow reaching billions of dollars from now to 2010 to enhance the sector, said a Senior Official of a textile association at a recently held conference in HCM City.Chairman of the Viet Nam Textile and Apparel Association (Vitas) Le Quoc An, stated that the industry requires over US$2.7 billion, besides $834 million for the garment projects and the remainder poured into textile projects including processing c

In a joint effort, Fountain Set (Holdings) Limited (?ountain Set?or ?he Group? SEHK: 420), a global leader in the manufacturing of top quality knitted fabrics and Ocean Star Apparel, Inc. (?SA? announce the development of a new premium cotton fabric ?ENDURA. Ocean Star Apparel is a vertically integrated apparel manufacturing powerhouse based in New York. As a key driver in the development of Endura, OSA has exclusive rights to offer the resulting apparel lines to the retail channel.Apparel made

Transformations of sheer lightness, gossamer weaves that rule the imagination, the hush and pageant of precious fabric. This is Elodie Brunet? textile collection, currently on exhibit at the Ayala Museum Glass Wing, entitled "Sli-on." How is such delicacy captured in translucent fabric? Subtle patterns that intuit a fabric? mood and feeling? Weaving is an altogether different discipline, that requires one? thoughts and emotions to be still and be filtered to their profound subtleties. It requir

After falling out of fashion with investors in recent months, the apparel sector is preparing for a makeover that may include mergers. Facing a stagnant market, clothing companies have been expanding during the past several years through a series of small and medium-size acquisitions. But as the retail industry continues a wave of consolidation, apparel makers are poised to accelerate their acquisition activity as a way to increase their negotiating clout with the new retail giants. Industry

The 11th International Exhibition on Textile Industry (ShanghaiTex 2005) opened recently. Germany has become the biggest foreign exhibitor once again. Up to 100 German enterprises exhibited their spinning, weaving, fabric, knitting, non-weaving, dyeing, finishing machines, accessories, compo-nents, and textile chemicals, while 63 of these enterprises took part in the Germany official group. The giant German group army of Textile Industry has made a well preparation for getting involved into the

Polyester prices were stronger this week in China as a result of a rebound in raw material costs. Since demand is far from surging however, prices should not significantly increase in the coming weeks. PSF Polyester staple fiber prices bottomed out in the past seven days in China after declining in the preceding four-week period. PSF prices rose from 10,300-10,600 yuan per ton up to 10,500-10,700 yuan. Prices bottomed out after production was partly reduced at Chinese polyester plants. Deman

When import quotas on textile products coming into the United States ended January 1, 2005, under World Trade Organization agreements signed 10 years earlier, a flood of clothing poured in from China. Within months, the U.S. responded with restrictions on Chinese apparel imports. Yet according to Wharton faculty and industry executives, these restrictions will only delay, not end, the global move toward quota-free garment trade. While some large U.S. textile makers are opposed to the removal o

Najam Rehan, President of Rawalpindi chamber of Commerce and Industry stated that the textile sector would grow much faster than ever before, because the government has taken special interest in this sector. Rehan informed that RCCI appreciate welcomes the incentives for textile industry, which will very helpful to flourish textile sector.The meeting was held under the lead of chairman of Mian Habibullah and the former president of RCCI Hussain Ahmed Ozgan, Nabi Nausherwan and committee members

Indian garment exporters should be the first to benefit from the agreement which the European Union? trade supremo, Peter Mandelson, reached in Shanghai last Saturday with Chinese commerce minister Bo Xilai. The agreement limits the growth of 10 categories of textiles and garments exported by China to the 25-nation European Union (EU) from June 11. This amounts to the re-imposition of quotas on Chinese exports, six months after they had been eliminated under an international agreement conclude

The days of pulling your favorite sweater from the wash, only to find it more suitable for a Chihuahua, may be over. Newly developed processes for wool production promise not only an unshrinkable sweater, but one that is silky smooth and shinier to boot. The new process, called "bio-polishing," was developed by the Agricultural Research Service branch of the USDA. Bio-polishing uses a series of chemical and enzyme treatments to provide smoother and softer wool than by conventional methods. In