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  • The spring edition of Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics will focus on maximising the opportunities from growth areas in the Asian markets. At the summit beginning March 14, 2018, the global and apparel fabrics and accessories industry will discover the latest fashion trends, find new innovations and discuss about means to ensure efficient sourcing. "As a sourcing platform, Intertextile is unrivalled in the industry. With this, many exhibitors will be under one roof covering the entire app
  • Construction of one of Africa's largest textile production facilities, named ‘Tayal Spa’, was flagged off recently by Algeria's industry and mines minister Youcef Yousfi in the north-western Relizane province. Fourty per cent of the production at the $1.5-billion Turkish-Algerian joint venture will cater to the domestic market while the rest would be exported. The facility will be built in three phases on 2.5 million square-meters in the Sidi Khettap industrial zone in Relizane by the Algeri
  • Vietnam targets to earn around $20 billion from the export of footwear, bags and suitcases in 2018. Positive signs in the global economy and rising consumption demand would create favourable conditions for domestic firms in exports and investment, according to Vietnam Leather, Footwear and Handbag Association (Lefaso) vice president Phan Th? Thanh Xuan. Buoyed by an encouraging export performance last year, the industry sees these targets as achievable keeping in view a positive market forec
  • Egypt has started construction of the biggest city for textiles and clothing in the country in Al-Sadat city, minister of industry and foreign trade Tarek Kabil announced recently. The textile city, with 568 factories and $2 billion paid capital to be invested during seven years with 87 per cent foreign investment, will cover 3.1 million cubic metres. The new city in the Monufiya governorate will offer 160,000 jobs with an estimated annual production worth $9 billion, Kabil said in the prese
  • Ten US cotton organisations have pledged industry contributions in 2018 to support the demand-building activities of Cotton Council International (CCI), the National Cotton Council’s (NCC) export promotion arm, headquartered in Washington, D.C. The cotton industry contributions to Cotton USA play critical role in developing export markets. The ten organisations that have pledged to support CCI activities are the National Cotton Council; Cotton Incorporated; American Cotton Shippers Associatio
  • Chinese firm Wuxi No. 1 Cotton Mill will build a textile plant in Dire Dawa Industrial Park (DDIP) in eastern Ethiopia, investing $220 million. A cornerstone-laying ceremony was held recently for the plant, which will take 30 months to build and is expected to employ 3,000. The park is now being constructed by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation. The plant's foundation stone laying ceremony was held in the presence of Liu Yu, economic and commercial counsellor at the Chinese emb
  • Over 11.334 million bales of cotton have arrived in 2017-18 season at various ginneries in Pakistan, as on January 15, 2017, up 7.58 per cent compared to arrival of 10.535 million bales during the corresponding period of last season, according to the latest fortnightly report on cotton arrivals, released by Pakistan Cotton Ginners’ Association (PCGA). In the major cotton producing province of Punjab, total cotton arrivals increased by 4.79 per cent year-on-year to 7.089 million bales, accordi
  • Silk production in India needs to be increased as inadequate production is leading to silk imports from China, Japan and Korea, Central Silk Board (CSB) chairman KM Hanumantharayappa said recently while inaugurating a sericulture fair in West Bengal. The fair in Behrampore attracted silk farmers from Birbhum, Murshidabad and Nadia districts. The fair was organised at the campus of Central Sericulture Research and Training Institute (CSRTI) in Behrampore, according to a report in an east Indi
  • Launched at Heimtextil last week (9-12 January 2018), Devan Chemicals has introduced a new range of health and wellness focused textiles, which incorporate ubiquinol – commonly known as Q10 – for improved skin, cell and organ health. Sven Ghyselinck, CEO of Devan Chemicals, says that with the company’s R-vital technology, Belgium-based Devan aims to “bring a better form of Q10 to the market.” Ubiquinol is a form of Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), an antioxidant and source of energy for cell rejuven
  • Vietnam aims to earn between US$19.5 - 20 billion from leather and footwear exports in 2018, up 10% from 2017, according to a conference in January 12. According to the Vietnam Leather, Footwear and Handbag Association (LEFASO), the leather and footwear industry is destined to increase by 5% from one year earlier, with the localisation rate of 55%. Footwear and handbags will remain Vietnam’s top four and 10 export items, respectively. In her remark at the conference, LEFASO Vice Preside
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