Organized by Ministry of Trade-Vietnam Trade Fair & Advertising National Company, Paper Communication Exhibition Service and Yorkers Trade & Marketing Service Co., Ltd., the show is going to occupy over 18000 sqm in 700 stalls, more than 15 country’s participation, VTG 2008 is the most significant event in the country, it is an event not […]
More than 1000 Pakistani textile sector professionals and businessmen will visit Munich (Germany) in mid-September to attend ITMA, the world’s largest textile machinery exhibition.
According to a press release issued by Messe Munchen International (MMI), the exhibition is expected to be visited by over 100,000 visitors from around the world. Reports about the success of ITMA […]
According to Le Quoc An, Chairman of the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (Vitas), the total exports of apparel to the US this year will be at the ‘acceptable’ level.
The US Customs has not yet released the official figure of apparel imports from Vietnam in the first six months of the year, which will serve […]
President John Agyekum Kufuor has stated that Ghana cannot survive alone where textile production is concerned unless she goes into partnership with China.
Already, he said there is an existing partnership between the two countries aimed at reactivating the Juapong Textile Mills.
Perhaps, the printing of the 50th Independence anniversary cloth from China marked the beginning of […]
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has unvelied a three-year roadmap to make all the member factories fully compliant to silence the ‘allegation guns’ of foreign buyers and importers.
Newly formed Multi-stakeholder Forum Bangladesh (MFB) designed the roadmap at a meeting in Toronto, Canada on April 16-18, BGMEA President Anwarul Alam Chowdhury Parvez told reporters […]
Power crisis has been hampering production in Satkhira Sundarban Textile Mill, one of the biggest industries in the country’s southwestern region.
Frequent load-shedding and voltage fluctuation caused financial loss amounting to about Tk 10 million (one crore) in the last four months, mill sources said.
Workers and employees of the state-run mill are passing their days in […]
Kineticsware, a global software company and Microsoft partner focused on customers in supply chain intensive industries, today announces the formation of its Textile and Apparel business unit (BU), based in Lomazzo, Italy. The team includes Jon Buchan, former sales director responsible for North American sales of Blue Fox Porini, a division of Blue Fox Enterprises […]
The Pakistani government has banned a play about burkas, the feature-obscuring garment worn by conservative Muslim women.
The ban reportedly left theater company head Madeeha Gauhar hurt and astonished, the BBC reported Saturday.
The government invoked the ban, saying the play made “unacceptable fun” of Pakistani culture. But Gauhar, head of the Ajoka Theatre group, said […]
A textile factory worth $600,000 (about Shs1 billion) is to be constructed in Mukono Town Council. The project is a joint venture between Hand-In-Hand-Uganda (HIHU), a Norwegian - funded development foundation and the Town Council.
Speaking during a verification tour recently, HIHU Director Aage Bjerke said besides providing employment opportunities, the agency would also take on […]
GEARED towards reviving the moribund textile industry in the country, the federal government had approved N80 billion to address the multiple problems that have enveloped the sector.
Disclosing this in Abuja Thursday at the 2007 Ministerial Press Briefing, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Aliyu Modibbo Umar, said “a Cotton/Textile Revival fund of N80 billion has […]
The Mascot Vietnam invested by Denmark’s leading workwear manufacturer Mascot has broken ground for the construction of a textile factory and a bonded warehouse at an investment of US $7 million in northern Hai Duong province.
The factory in Tan Truong industrial zone is expected to be operational in January 2008.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony on […]
Determined to revive the comatose textile industry, Federal Government announced yesterday that it has approved a new N80 billion fund for on lending to the operators and farmers. This is addition to the N50 billion earlier approved by the Federal Government for the same cause.
This came also as the Ministry of Commerce and Industry disclosed […]