Apparel, Fashion, Retail

Sustainable Zero Cotton Denim Line Made From TENCEL Fibres

Textile Insights July 8, 2023

Lenzing Group, Advance Denim and Italian chemical company Officina+39, in order to promote sustainable development of denim industry, are launching a brand-new zero cotton denim collection made of TENCEL Lyocell fibres. The collection comprises of Advance Denim’s innovative denim fabrics made

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Digitalisation Helps Garment Makers Reduce Time To Market

Textile Insights July 7, 2023

Recently, Changshu and China based Jiangsu Golden Morning Co. received an order to produce 60,000 pieces of garments in only 10 days, which the company managed to deliver within a week. What enabled the company to finish the huge workload in such a short period of time was a digital technology named SewSmart which controls […]

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Amaze Software Picks Kornit’s Global Fulfillment Network

Textile Insights July 5, 2023

Amaze Software has picked Israel based Kornit Digital’s Global Fulfillment Network, which is made up by integrating KornitX Workflow Solutions and Kornit MAX. Kornit’s Global Fulfillment Network helps companies like Amaze Software, connect creators with high-quality garment and textile production fulfillers across the globe. “The social commerce market is growing rapidly,

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Kitex Setting Up Yarn To Garments Facility in Telangana

Textile Insights June 29, 2023

Kerala based and one of the biggest global producers of baby garments, Kitex Garments has plans to start a yarn to garment manufacturing facility in Kakatiya Mega Textiles Park (KMTP) in Telangana state. This was announced following several meetings with Telangana Industries Minister KTR Rama Rao and officials of the state Industries Department. The Sabu […]

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Vaude Launching Wood-Based Polyester Fleece Jacket

Textile Insights June 24, 2023

Vaude, a European environmentally friendly outdoor garment brand will introduce a fleece jacket made from wood-based polyester supplied by UPM Biochemicals. Finland based UPM Biochemicals, is a supplier of sustainable wood-based biochemicals for replacing fossil-based raw materials. According to UPM, the resin used to make polyester contains 30 percent monoethylene glycol

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US Garment Imports Plummet 22.15% in Jan-April 2024

Textile Insights June 23, 2023

In the first four months of 2023, US garment imports plummeted 22.15 percent year on year. In the first four months of 2022, they stood at US $32.38 billion as against which they fell to $25.21 billion in January-April 2023. According to OTEXA, which published the data, imports from all top import sources like China, […]

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Large Vietnam Garment Units Accept Smaller Orders To Survive

Textile Insights June 23, 2023

The biggest garment manufacturing factories in Vietnam, who employ thousands of workers each, are accepting orders as small as several hundred units to survive through the tough times, a situation, which they say they have never experienced before. Statistics released by the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS) reveal that in the first five months […]

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Asia’s Biggest Garment Wholesale Market To Get Makeover

Textile Insights June 22, 2023

The Delhi government is all set to beautify the Gandhinagar Market, which is Asia’s largest wholesale garment market and convert it into a ‘Grand Garment Hub’. The redevelopment work will be done at an estimated cost of Rs 150 crore and will be carried out in two phases. According to the Delhi government, due to […]

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Lululemon Seventh Brand Partner Of Circularity Project

Textile Insights June 22, 2023

US fashion brand Lululemon has now become the seventh external brand partner of Amsterdam-based Fashion for Good’s Sorting for Circularity USA project, which was launched earlier in January 2023. Within its first six months, the project has expanded to cover six key US states including, California, Colorado, Florida, New Jersey, New York and Texas and […]

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Reliance Retail’s Azorte Launches Threads For Good On World Earth Day

April 26, 2023

On the occasion of Earth Day, Azorte, Reliance Retail’s premium large format fashion and lifestyle store, announced an exclusive initiative, “Threads for Good—from waste to deserving waist” to maximize the power of clothing and ensure clothes are delivered to those who need them the most, with an attempt to reduce pollution. Through this initiative, Azorte […]