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Industry

H&M To Hike Rates Of Garments Sourced From Bangladesh

Textile Insights November 25, 2023

H&M which is amongst the top garment retailers in the world will pay a higher price for the apparels it sources from Bangladesh suppliers to offset the hike in minimum wages of clothing industry workers. The Swedish retailer announced that it will absorb the hike in garment worker’s wages

Corporates

Epic Group Wins Environmental Excellence Award

November 25, 2023

Epic Group was recently honoured with the “Sustainable Corporate (Environmental) – Outstanding Award” at the Standard Chartered Corporate Achievement Awards 2023. The event, organized by Standard Chartered Bank and Hong Kong Economic Journal, recognizes outstanding achievements in corporate sustainability. The award underscores Epic Group’s

Cotton

CCI To Procure One Million Bales Of Kasturi Brand Cotton

Textile Insights November 24, 2023

Government owned Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) is set to procure over one million bales of premium Kasturi cotton in the current season that began in October. “India’s cotton output for the 2023-24 season is projected at 36 million bales of 170 kg each, Lalit Kumar Gupta, CMD of CCI told Mint. Last season the […]

Dyes & Chemicals

Bluesign Simplifies Access & Makes Bluesign Guide Public

Textile Insights November 24, 2023

Bluesign has taken an important step in enhancing the Bluesign System and simplified access with introduction of the public Bluesign Guide. According to Bluesign, the public Guide is accessible to everyone and registration or login is not required to make information easily available to rapidly develop adoption of better materials With the new public Guide, […]

Economy

Turkey Hikes Duty By 30-100% On Textile Product Imports

Textile Insights November 24, 2023

The Turkish government has hiked tariffs by 30-100 percent on several textile imports in a bid to support the local textile industry that had appealed to restrict the increasing imports of textiles After the Turkish government increased import duties on textile imports, Turkish garment manufacturers face the prospect of higher manufacturing costs. Turkey is the […]

Textile Park

Darshana Jardosh Optimistic About Impact Of PM MITRA Park

Textile Insights November 24, 2023

Darshana Jardosh, Minister of State for Textiles has expressed optimism on the transformative impact of the upcoming PM MITRA Park in Navsari, Gujarat. Minister Jardosh said this at a textile seminar in Surat which was held as a precursor to the 10th edition of Vibrant Gujarat 2024, scheduled to take place in Gandhinagar from January […]

Export

Japanese Imports Of Apparel Surge 17.4% In September 2023

Textile Insights November 24, 2023

Japanese imports of apparel in September 2023 climbed to US $2.63 billion, a surge of 17.4 percent over its previous month, but fell 3.95 percent volume wise. In the period between January and September this year, garment imports from Japan rose slower at 4.08 percent to $16.66 billion over the comparable months of the previous […]

Event

ITME Africa 2023: A Milestone Event For Textile Business Expansion Into Africa

November 24, 2023

If you are in the textile business, this is an event to watch out for, especially if you wish to connect with the Kenyan textile industry and the rest of the African nations. It is the first time hosted in Nairobi, making this Textile Technology & Engineering sector-specific international business event a crucial platform for […]

Cotton

Better Cotton Programme To Support Chad Farmers

Textile Insights November 23, 2023

Cotontchad, a Chad based aggregator and exporter of cotton convened a multi-stakeholder event in Chad to explore the potential for a Better Cotton Programme. Better Cotton, Cotontchad, and IDH gathered key stakeholders from Chad’s cotton industry in the country’s capital, N’Djamena, to discuss the potential for the launch of a new Better Cotton Programme. The […]

Machinery

Nanshan Opts For Oerlikon Barmag Nylon POY+DTY Technology

Textile Insights November 23, 2023

Oerlikon Barmag and Nanshan Fashion signed a strategic cooperation agreement for Nanshan Fashion’s latest nylon POY+DTY project in Shandong, China. The cooperation with Nanshan Fashion is Oerlikon Barmag’s first project to provide a complete solution for nylon filament. The scope of supply includes a complete set of equipment like chip drying, spinning, winding and

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