The Dixie Group, one of America’s fastest growing floorcovering companies, has announced that it has purchased all of the yarn manufacturing assets of the former Royalty Carpet Mills Porterville, California yarn plant. The company has also announced that it will lease the Porterville building through a long term arrangement within the next two weeks. The Dixie Group will begin hiring former associates to manage and operate the yarn plant. The output from the yarn plant will allow The Dixie

Apparel manufacturers from China, South Korea, India and other countries are lured to open new plants in the continent's second most populous nation Ethiopia which is fast developing into a dynamic apparel sourcing hub and with growing number of European and U.S. brands sourcing garments there. A significant factor in Ethiopia's emergence on the clothing scene is the planned opening of a new railway line to a port in neighboring Djibouti, located on the Horn of Africa in the Arabian Sea. The

Cotton crop cultivation during the current sowing season (2017-18) has witnessed about 18pc increase in Punjab as compared the sowing of same period of last year. However, it decreased by 6 percent in Sindh during the period under review, according to a top official in the Ministry of Textile Industry. During the current sowing season, cotton crop has been cultivated over 2.743m hectares in Punjab which is 18pchigher as compared the same period of last year. However, cotton sowing in the Sindh d

The upward trend of garment exports from Africa, thanks in part to Bangladeshi investors, poses a threat to Bangladesh's second position in the global apparel trade. In 2016, garment exports from 39 sub-Saharan nations stood at $2.6 billion, according to data from the International Trade Centre. Industry insiders are tipping the shipments to cross the $3-billion mark this year. The countries enjoy duty-free and quota-free access for certain goods, including garment, to the US under the Afr

Intertek, a leading total quality assurance provider to industries worldwide, has announced expansion of its textile testing capabilities in the US, with the launch of new services - which include evaluating evaporation/drying rates, water vapour transmission rates and antibacterial/antifungal properties - for the fast-growing activewear sector. These services are new to the US market and offer manufacturers of activewear, furniture and outdoor fabrics a more efficient, timely testing option

Vinatex’s (the Vietnam Textile & Garment Group) CEO Le Tien Truong has said that the current production capacity of the textile & garment industry has exceeded the $35 billion per annum threshold. The small scale of the domestic market is not the alternative market for Vietnamese garment companies to target when exports fall, he said. Vinatex said that 2016 was a tough year for the industry as the demand from the largest export markets declined. The exports to the US decreased by 3

The Italian Trade Agency, the National Association of Manufacturers of Footwear, Leather Goods and Tanning Technologies, and the Vietnam Leather, Footwear and Handbag Association (LEFASO) have inaugurated the Italy-Vietnam Footwear Technology Centre at the Lefaso Centre in the southern province of Binh Duong’s Di An district. With its experience in the leather industry, Italy will assist Vietnamese companies in improving product quality through collaboration and the launch of the centre, whic

Islamabad Chamber of Small Traders (ICST) on Sunday said textile sector is slowly collapsing and the government should take note of the plight of this sector. ICST Patron Shahid Rasheed Butt said that weak trade diplomacy and semi-educated export managers proved to be a double whammy for the export sector which was already reeling under various problems. Failed trade diplomacy is one of the reasons behind dwindling exports which has forced the government to borrow from international lenders r

China and the United States have no interest in a so-called trade war, said experts on Thursday, pointing to significant progress in the implementation of the China-US 100-day action plan, particularly in agricultural, energy and high-end manufacturing products trade. Their comments came after the Chinese government last month lifted a 13-year ban to allow certain categories of US beef to be imported into China. They will also jointly announce the conditions on imports of US chicken products

Despite having huge potential in home textile, Bangladesh is unable to expand its market share in the European Union because of duty benefits extended to Pakistan, a cotton grower. Bangladesh, on the other hand, is a 100 percent cotton importer. In December 2013, the 28-nation bloc granted Pakistan the GSP Plus status for four years. The GSP Plus status allows 20 percent of Pakistani exports, including home textile, to enter the EU at zero duty and 70 percent at preferential rates. “Ban