Thealong with the Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) is participating in thebeginning in Tamil Nadu, A Sakthivel, chairman of ATDC and AEPC, told the 17th annual general meeting of ATDC held virtually today. Professional upgradation (Pro-Up) programmes for apparel exporters will be started from January, vice chairman Rakesh Vaid said.Pic: ShutterstockMembers from Usha Fabs Pvt. Ltd., Jyoti Apparels, Monica Garments, Cheer Sagar, Goodwill Impex, Neetee Clothing, Trend Setters Intl., Madan Tr

Thehas named second round of recipients of the BFC Foundation Fashion Fund, supporting creative fashion businesses to survive the COVID-19 crisis. Following a £1 million emergency fund distributed in May, the BFC raised a further £500,000 that are now being distributed in grants to an additional 30 British designer businesses.Pic: British Fashion CouncilRecipients for the Fund are Camilla Elphick, Charles Jeffrey Loverboy, clothsurgeon, Cottweiler, Danshan, Emilia Wickstead, Eudon Choi, Feng Che

Everything has good and bad aspects. From that point of view, the Coronavirus which has grown pandemic is not different from other things. The highly transmissible virus has brought about changes to the forms or natures of all trades and commerce across the world.Since the virus emerged in late 2019, demand for PPEs (Personal Protective Equipment) including face masks has gone up on large scale leading to a rise in production of the medical apparatus.Figure: Demand for PPEs (Personal Protective

, a provider of advanced, high quality products and mission critical textile solutions, has announced that its American & Efird (A&E) division is set to purchase the high performance yarn business of Charles Craft. Charles Craft is a manufacturer of high-performance flame resistant/cut resistant industrial yarns and other specialty products.Pic: ShutterstockThe purchase is expected to close in early October. The combination of these legacy brands brings together leading technical yarn ex

BENTONVILLE - Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is targeting zero emissions across the company’s global operations by 2040 without the use of carbon offsetting.Walmart, together with its charitable arm, the Walmart Foundation, is also committing to help protect, manage or restore at least 50 million acres of land and one million square miles of ocean by 2030.Doug McMillon, president and chief executive officer of Walmart, said: "We want to play an important role in transforming the wor

The inventories of high-count pure cotton yarns and polyester-cottonblendedyarns are massively declining in China due to high demand since last couple of weeks.The same has been stated by cotton textile firms located in Jiangsu, Shandong and Anhui,amongst other places.Ring spinning and OE yarns of C40S (or below) have witnessed great surge in the terminal consumer marketand most of the spinning mills have accelerated their destockingfor these products.According to a medium-scale cotton spinning

KOBE – Sportswear brand Asics is the latest to join the global environmental initiative RE100, as it commits to using only renewable energy across its entire business operations by 2050.Asics joins the likes of Ralph Lauren, Burberry, Chanel and American Eagle Outfitters in aligning with the aspirations of the initiative, the members of which range from fashion to automobile manufacturing and electronics.“We are committed to taking action on climate change and limiting global warming to 1.5°C so

The denim industry has been trying to age new jeans for almost half a hundred years, to the detriment of the climate and wellbeing of clothing workers. To date, ozone machines that use ozone gas to naturally bleach clothing have been a key solution to this form of desirable effect. The laundries will, however, diversify their options with Officina+39’s latest technology.Oz-One Powder was recently launched by the Italian sustainable business. This product enables laundries to obtain a bleached, d

Due to the corona crisis, the supply of raw materials into Bangladesh from China has slowed down. From November to February, the offspring of Bangladesh’s sweater exporters are in a dilemma and generally, Bangladesh’s exporters export below 50% of their capacity installed. Speaking of Mostafa Rubel, Managing Director of the Dragon Company, a leading sweater exporter, the issue of coronavirus began impacting Bangladesh’s sweater segment since nearly 80% of human-made sweater yarn is mainly import

Polygiene, known for stay fresh and odour control technologies for clothing, sports equipment, lifestyle, textiles and other materials, is investing in China, South Asia and Brazil, according to chief executive officer Ulrika Björk, who believes these markets will increase rapidly. US, Europe and Japan are the major markets for the Sweden-based company now.The company’s anti-microbial treatment is simple that can be applied to existing production processes, preferably at the finishing stage, Bjö