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Strike Hits Bangladesh Garment Industry.
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association on Tuesday decided to close down 700 garment factories across the nation
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MOROCCO: Morroco's Textile is the Most Dynamic Sector with High Potential.
Morocco exports of textile and ready-to-wear cloth items recorded in 2009 a value of 25.8 billion Dirhams, distributed as follows : • Ready-to-wear cloths: 18.5 billion Dirhams • Hosiery: 6.5 billion...
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VIETNAM: Investors rRturn to Garment Business.
More foreign direct investment in the garment and textile industry in recent months is a positive sign for the economy, but it poses challenges for domestic producers, experts have said. In the first...
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VIETNAM: Garment Sector Strives To Use Domestic Raw Materials.
A number of businesses investing in the textiles and dye sector, which has received preferential policies and has a high added-value, are finding it difficult to meet domestic demands.
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China Publishes Q1 Report on The Textile Industry Climate Index.
China's textile industry climate index for the first quarter stood at 97.9 (the growth level in 2003 = 100), up 0.8 points over the previous quarter, according to a report released by the China Econom...
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Turkish Company Intends To Launch Garment Factory.
A leading Turkish company, Otra Anatolia, intends to launch a garment factory in Bahrain. This plan was revealed after the Industry and Commerce Minister, Dr Hassan Fakhro received the investors.
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Bangladesh knitwear: “The Game is Just Starting”
Fazlul Hoque, President of the Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers & Exporters Association (BKMEA) has said in an exclusive interview with Just-Style that the country faces labour, cost and infrastructu...
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Made in Turkmenistan’ label gains worldwide recognition
The textile and clothing industry in Turkmenistan ranks second after the oil and natural gas sector. Many of the worlds leading brands like Levis and Ikea are outsourcing their manufacturing to the lo...
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Tunisia Promotes Textile and Clothing in Holland.
A conference on the Tunisian textile and apparel sector was held on June 2, 2010, in the World Fashion Center in Amsterdam, one of the world’s largest fashion trade centers, in collaboration with the...
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EGYPT: Ready-Made Garments Producers insist on Establishing A Separate Chamber
Ready-Made Garments Makers has ensured their insistence on the establishment of a new chamber that works separately from the Egyptian Textile Manufacturers Federation ( ETMF), specially that the total...
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CHINA: Pricey Cotton Hits Garment Makers Hard
Life is getting even harder for China's textile manufacturers as they struggle to cope with a beleaguered world market for their exports.
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USA: President signs Haiti Textile Trade Bill.
US President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill to extend duty-free benefits for some knit and woven apparel products imported into the US from Haiti in an effort to aid reconstruction in the ear...
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Global fibre production exceeds 70mt in 2009
Global fibre consumption rose 4.2% to 70.5 million tonnes in 2009, according to Oerlikon’s “The Fiber Year”, due to be published in June.
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Egypt is the First Globally in Exporting Cotton Yarn in 2008.
Data from the Export Council of Ready-Made Garments headed by Mr. Sherif Hesny has revealed that Egypt's Exports of Fine Cotton Yarn reached 118 bilion dollars during 2008 with 31.1% Percent of the Wo...
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Pakistan: APTMA calls off two-day weekly strike
All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) called off two-day weekly strike for the time being following meeting with the Federal Textile Minister, Ran Farooq Ahmad on Thursday.
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Eng.Rashid: The Ministry is committed to provide Trained Manpower for RMG Factories
Eng Rashid Mohamed Rashid (Minister of Trade & Industry) met yesterday a number of heads of offices of international companies in Egypt and working in the field of garments, where he discussed with th...
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Global yarn and fabric production bounces back
Global recovery in yarn and fabric production was witnessed in the 4th quarter of 2009, with reference to the data released by the International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF).
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Knitwear manufacturer expands on Broadway
In January this year, Knitting Industry reported that KBL Group International had acquired North Bergen, New Jersey based AR Knitwear and its well known Sweater Project brand. Sweater Project is known...
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VIETNAM: Garment paradox the more exported, the bigger the loss
Two Scottish knitwear companies and a weaving company will fly the flag for Scotland as finalists in the prestigious UK Fashion & Textile Export Awards, presented by HRH, The Princess Royal and UK TV’...
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CHINA: Textile enterprises should realize timely adjustments by making use of current situation
China’s national scale enterprises completed fabric output of 4.98909 billion meters in March of 2010, and 13.22906 billion meters in the first quarter, an increase of 17.64 percent year on year, acco...