CottonConnect, a social enterprise that focuses on creating a more sustainable and responsible cotton industry, has made its TraceBale traceability platform available to the wider apparel industry. TraceBale traceability platform is expected to help brands address supply chain transparency
Spanish fashion brand Mango is celebrating 40 years since its story began with the opening of its first store in Barcelona. The brand also expects to close the 2023 financial year with record sales and with a turnover in excess of €3 billion as against the earlier record sales of €2.68 billion in 2022. During […]
Coats Digital is propelling its technology solutions into the AI era with the launch of a new AI Assistant to improve customer service and open up innovative, new opportunities across the fashion supply chain. The new AI service using Microsoft’s Azure AI solutions, Coats Digital’s developers have quickly introduced advanced capabilities for robust natural language […]
Short-staple spindles installed globally have grown from 225 million units in 2021 to 227 million units in 2022, up a marginal 0.88 percent Statistics released by the International Textile Manufacturer Federation (ITMF) also informed that the number of installed open-end rotors increased higher at 8.3 million in 2021 to 9.5 million in 2022 According to […]
X-Rite and Pantone have launched the spectral colour value for Pantone Colour of the Year 2024, the Pantone 13-1023 Peach Fuzz, which is available in PantoneLIVE, a cloud-based digital colour standard ecosystem. “As a result, consumer product companies can easily incorporate Pantone 13-1023 Peach Fuzz into their digital workflows to accelerate the design to manufacturing
Bangladesh and Uzbekistan are exploring cooperation between the textile and garment industries of the two countries and take advantage of the strengths of both countries An Uzbek textile delegation recently visited Bangladesh and visited various garment factories to explore cooperation and learn more about garment manufacturing. Then a top level official team from
In November, China’s cotton textile prosperity index witnessed a slight rise of 0.3 percent over October and stood at 49 percent. The seven sub-indexes that make up the China Cotton Textile Prosperity Index are all below the critical point of 50. Within the sub-indexes the raw material procurement index, product sales index, product inventory index […]
The Bangladesh garment export industry aims to expand its woollen garment exports in the next five years and propel them by 10 times from the current US $100 million. This development comes in the background of Australia, the world’s biggest wool producer, is targeting Bangladesh as an alternative to China for its wool processing. “Bangladesh […]
In the first eleven months of 2023, Uzbekistan’s textile exports slipped 3.3 percent year on year to US $2.8 billion, the Uzbekistan statistics agency reported. Exports of yarn accounted for 40.7 percent of all textile exports in the period between January and November and in total the country shipped 626 types of finished textile products […]
Manufacturer of polymer solutions Americhem, has launched a new antimicrobial and odour control treatment for textiles named Nshield, which features peppermint oil as its active component. Traditionally, peppermint oil has been used for its therapeutic benefits, and recent studies indicate its potential in providing antibacterial properties and odour neutralisation in





















