Apparel, Fashion, Retail

Lectra Launches New Saas Platform For Fashion Sector

Textile Insights April 11, 2024

Lectra, an Industry 4.0 player in the fashion market has done a major development of its SaaS platform dedicated to collection management for the fashion sector named Kubix Link 3.4. “This new version improves optimisation at each phase of bringing a product to market, from design to

Export

Double Digit Growth for Bangladesh Garment Exports in March

Textile Insights April 10, 2024

Bangladeshi garment exports increased in double digits or by about 11 percent to reach US $4.34 billion in March 2024 compared to $3.89 billion a year ago, according to data of Export Promotion Bureau. Of this, knitwear exports saw 16.47 percent growth, reaching $2.42 billion compared to $2.07 billion in March 2023, while woven apparel […]

Export

Vietnam Apparel Exporters Should Explore New Markets: VITAS

Textile Insights April 10, 2024

To beat the challenge of the Red Sea crisis, a top official of a Vietnam textile and garment association advised apparel exporters to diversify markets beyond Europe. “Tensions in the Red Sea are a bottleneck for the textile and garment industry when exporting to the European market,” Vu Duc Giang, Chairman of the Vietnam Textile […]

Apparel, Fashion, Retail

Navan Unveils Fashiontech Platform Using Power Of Generative AI

Textile Insights April 10, 2024

Navan AI, a generative AI and computer vision solutions company has launched its FashionTech platform niia.ai, after a successful months-long trial run with a selection of fashion brands in Singapore and India. Using the power of generative AI, niia.ai delivers significant time and cost savings to apparel designers, while complementing their creativity and enabling them

Machinery

Emtec’s TSA Leapfrogs Into Future Of Textile Haptic Analysis

Textile Insights April 10, 2024

Emtec’s Tactile Sensation Analyser (TSA) provides an objective number on how a fabric subjectively feels to the touch and will be displayed at booth 1205-D at the Functional Fabric Fair. “The device boasts high accuracy, aligning with results from traditional hand panel testing methods conducted by ‘touch experts’ with a correlation of up to 100 […]

Machinery

Groz-Beckert & Santoni Develop Innovative Knitting System

Textile Insights April 10, 2024

Italian circular knitting machine manufacturer Santoni and Groz-Beckert have partnered to develop a new self-cleaning knitting system for the Innotas circular knitting machine. “The circular knitting machine needle San Duo with the sinker Snk Duo-Ol was developed to meet the desired requirements,” Groz Beckert said in a press release. . In the innovative knitting system,

Dyes & Chemicals

AMA’s Bio Indigo PReR To Redefine Landscape Of Indigo Dyeing

Textile Insights April 10, 2024

Manufacturer of natural textile dyes, AMA Herbal has launched Bio Indigo PReR, which is a blend of innovation, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness that promises to redefine the landscape of indigo dyeing. According to the Indian company’s press release, Bio Indigo PReR is the world’s first biochemically modified pre-reduced natural indigo in liquid form. Developed with

Industry

Bangladesh Announces New Minimum Wage For Textile Workers

Textile Insights April 9, 2024

The Bangladesh government has announced Taka 10,001 or US $91.06 as the gross monthly minimum wage for textile workers. The earlier gross monthly minimum wage set in 2018 was Taka 5,710 or $51.99. The labour ministry announced new minimum wages for different grades through a gazette notification and the newly announced wages for the textile […]

Cotton

Brazilian Institute Developing Bio-Pesticides For Cotton Crop

Textile Insights April 9, 2024

The Instituto Senai de Tecnologia (IST) in Brazil has partnered the Instituto Mato-grossense do Algodão (Ima-MT) to develop bio-pesticides which can be used for biological control of cotton crops. The project named Agrobio-MT will contribute to integrated pest management through bio-pesticides for producing sustainable cotton, at a lower cost and less dependent on chemical

Export

Cambodia Leads Charge In US Apparel Imports In Jan-Feb Period

Textile Insights April 9, 2024

Cambodia led the charge with US garment imports from the SE Asian country increasing 15.34 percent year on year  to $545.20 million in the January to February period of 2024. Overall US apparel imports in the first two months of the ongoing year declined 7.78 percent from a year ago period to US $12.18 billion. […]