India’s Madhya Pradesh State Skill Development Mission recently signed an agreement offering exclusive rights to the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) in Bhopal to train people in the textile sector under the Mukhya Mantri Kaushalya Yojana. Candidates will receive the month-long training in 10 or 12 courses depending on industry demand. The institute will train around 10,000 candidates in collaboration with several industries, which will recruit at least 70 per cent of the trai

Hismer Bio-Tech, based in Ningyang county, Tai'an city in East China's Shandong province, is making biomass fiber from a very unusual source: shrimp and crab shells. According to Hu Guangmin, Hismer’s chair, the biomass fiber can wean textile companies’ off their reliance on crude oil. As textile companies have long been dependent on crude oil when making common synthetic materials such as nylon or polyester but with the biomass fibers the companies could soon change, by turning to biomass fi

“Myanmar’s garment sector is growing vig­orously, we are seeing 25 percent foreign direct investment (FDI) in the manufacturing sector an­nually, we have seen this three consecutive years now,” Daw Khaing Kha­ing Ngwe, General Sec­retary of the Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association, said. Since 2013, $1 billion out of $3 billion FDI are flow into Myanmar's manufacturing sector. ‘‘Manufacturing receives around $1 billion FDI; out of that $1 billion, over $200 million FDI

A Turkish invisible fabric that radars and thermal cameras cannot detect will soon be available for sale to member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Developed by the Sun Textile and Research Development Centre, the fabric passed tests by the Turkish Armed Forces, and is now awaiting approval from the defence ministry for export. Invented by two scientists at Teknokent of Hacettepe University in Ankara, Sabri Ünlütürk, the fabric is being produced in a factory in the

At the recent ‘Destination Africa’ exhibition for readymade clothes, organized by the International Labor Organization (ILO), in collaboration with Egyptian textiles export councils, among others held in Cairo. The Egypt’s Textile Export Council (TEC) chairman Hassan Eshra said that Egypt’s textile exports has increased by 3 percent between January to October standing at $673 million over $651 million in the same period previous year. Turkey topped the nations importing Egyptian textile with

Sri Lankan Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen inaugurated first of the Mini Factories under 150 Mini Apparel Factories Program by his Ministry in a Srilankan Menik Farm Village, one time Sri Lankan refugee displacement village. As part of a new US $ 1.8 million national apparel initiative at village levels, the village has been brought back to life. The Rs 287 Mn (US $ 1.87 Mn) project aims at setting up 150 Mini Apparel Factories across the country in support of Unity govern

Pakistan’s textile and clothing products due to the cash subsidy offered under the prime minister’s exports enhancement package recorded over 7 percent growth in exports during four months (July-October) of the current fiscal year. Textile and clothing products exports worth $4.4 billion took place during July-October period of the year 2017-18 as against $4.1 billion of the corresponding period of the previous year, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS). Revival in textile

'DIFE has already decided not to renew licences of non-compliant factories and cancel their licence after the expiry of the deadline The government has asked all factories from the National Initiative (NI) under the Tripartite Plan of Action to complete their remediation process by April 2018. As part of the government’s initiative to ensure RMG factory safety after the Rana Plaza disaster, the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) held a meeting with the fac

The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) is expected to boost Vietnamese leather and footwear exports to the European Union market, heard a conference organized by the European Trade Policy and Investment Support Project (EU-Mutrap) in Hanoi on November 15. Vietnam fetched US$16 billion from leather and footwear exports in 2016, the fourth biggest export earner after phones and phone parts, textiles and garments, and computers, and electronics, Vietnamplus news website reports. Data of

Pakistan’s textile and clothing products exports recorded over 7 percent growth during four months (July-October) of the current fiscal year mainly due to the cash subsidy offered under the prime minister’s exports enhancement package. The country exported textile and clothing products worth $4.4 billion during July-October period of the year 2017-18 as against $4.1 billion of the corresponding period of the previous year, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS). Revival in texti