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Sweden's H&M signs pledge for textile workers
Swedish retail giant H&M on Tuesday signed an agreement promising better labour rights for 1.6 million workers at its suppliers' factories.
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Textile industry welcomes extension of export benefit
The Southern India Mills' Association has said that this has come as a relief to the textile industry, particularly the spinning sector. The benefit given to manmade fibre spun yarn might increase exp...
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Fraunhofer ISC to present new textile-integrated sensors for medical devices at IDTechEX 2015
At the IDTechEX, Fraunhofer ISC will show a new class of mechanical sensors suitable for integration into woven or knitted fabrics for use in medical devices, as well as a novelkind of pressure stocki...
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Chinese Textile Mills Are Now Hiring in Places Where Cotton Was King
INDIAN LAND, S.C. — Twenty-five years ago, Ni Meijuan earned $19 a month working the spinning machines at a vast textile factory in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. Now at the Keer Group’s cotton mill in...
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Hohenstein approves new textile cleaning system using water instead of solvent
Happy Co. Ltd., based in Kyoto, Japan, has developed a wet cleaning system for outerwear, designed to cleans customers’ textiles professionally without having to process them conventionally, using org...
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Technical textiles market to reach US$ 193.7 billion by 2020
The global technical textiles market will reach US$ 193.7 billion by 2020, amplifying at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.5% during the forecast period 2015-2020, according to Future Market I...
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Technical textiles market to reach US$ 193.7 billion by 2020
The global technical textiles market will reach US$ 193.7 billion by 2020, amplifying at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.5% during the forecast period 2015-2020, according to Future Market I...
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The Rupp Report: Some News From The Cotton World
Jürg Rupp, Executive Editor Despite man-made fiber achievements, cotton is still the driver of the global apparel industry, as well as some other industries including medical and hygiene applications....
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Sixteen International Delegates Successfully Complete Cotton Classing & Testing Training
BREMEN, Germany — August 5, 2015 — Sixteen international delegates successfully completed ICA Bremen’s ‘Cotton Classing & Testing’ training program. The eight day programme took place in Bremen, Germa...
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Open markets in Pakistan witnessed decline in price of prime quality cotton
The price of prime quality cotton witnessed decline by Rs50 per maund to Rs4,750 per maund at open markets in Pakistan on Friday. The Karachi Cotton Association (KCA) also revised down its official ra...
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Turkish exports to Egypt 'rose by 3% in 2014'
Ataseven said that Egyptian exports to Turkey have decreased by 13.8 percent during 2014, going down from $1.727 billion to $1.489 billion
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Israel, Egypt set target of US$2bn duty-free textile exports to U.S. within 3 years
Israel and Egypt have marked 10 years of the U.S. Qualifying Industrial Zone framework (QIZ) with a joint booth at the Magic apparel trade fair, in Las Vegas, the world’s biggest event in the internat...
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Cotton USA Hosts Latin American Uniform Garment Manufacturers Delegation
COTTON USA is pleased to announce that it will host a delegation of Latin American uniform garment manufacturers at the 2015 NAUMD (North-American Association of Uniform Manufacturers and Distributors...
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Global cotton summit begins in Dhaka
A two-day global cotton summit began in Dhaka on 21st of March.
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Ghana and USAID pen deal to boost textile trade
Signing and exchange of the letter of collaboration were `at a ceremony to launch the new African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Trade Resource Centre, which was hosted by the GCCI within the World...
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Pakistani textile goods far better in quality than those of India, Bangladesh
The textile goods made and produce in Pakistan have no comparison with the same being produced in India and Bangladesh.
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Egypt seeks to promote cotton cultivation
Egyptian authorities are working to boost local cotton cultivation, bringing this core agricultural sector back to life after several years of decline.
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Moroccan textile industry is committed to create 90,000 jobs by 2020
The Moroccan textile industry is committed to create 90,000 jobs by 2020, according to the terms of a performance agreement signed at the end of February by the Moroccan Association of Textile and Clo...
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India Will Oust China as Top Cotton Producer
India is all set to beat China and become the top cotton producer this year, ousting the communist nation from the number one position for the first time in over 30 years, the U.S. has said in a repor...
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Textile exporters in a spin as euro slumps
The euro tumbled against the dollar — falling 3.6 cents — after the strong US jobs data released last week. With the euro at 1.06 to the dollar, the market is bracing for the currency reaching parity...