After reporting better-than-expected sales in the holiday season, Next doesn’t seem to be too worried about the current lockdown in the UK.Image Courtesy: thesun.co.ukThe British clothing retailer has said that despite lockdown being imposed in several regions across the UK, 2021 isn’t going to be impacted much.Substantiating on this, Simon Wolfson, CEO, Next, said that this is traditionally quietest period of the year and will continue for some time. However, it will improve in April and is lik

Sri Lanka-based global apparel manufacturer Hela Clothing announced the acquisition of 50 per cent stake in Indonesia’s Submiri Intimates Apparel Plc.Image Courtesy: forbes.comThe step marks the creation of a new joint venture project for the production of intimate products at Ethiopia’s Hawassa Industrial Park.The collaboration at full scale will result in providing employment to over 3,000 people in Hawassa, increasing the capacity of the manufacturing unit to produce 1 million pieces a month

Sun Haifeng who is a first-grade teacherwill give a lecturefrom15:30 to 16:30 on January 7th. He will teach how to operate a successful community online.

Vandewiele, the supplier of carpet and velvet weaving machines and textile accessories, has acquired 100 per cent of Savio Group, provider of machinery in yarn finishing sector, dealing in manufacturing and distribution of winding machines, quality control devices and electronic boards for the textile industry.Image Courtesy: www.cmo.com.auUnder this partnership, Vandewiele’s customers will be benefited with the services offered bySavio Group. Vandewiele is also excited to welcome the Savio cust

Saarland University computer scientists invented a new way to turning fabric into e-textiles without changing unique properties. And these special textiles can be produced in a comparatively easy way, thus opening up new use cases.Jürgen Steimle, Computer Science Professor at Saarland University says, “Our goal was to integrate interactive functionalities directly into the fibers of textiles instead of just attaching electronic components to them.”Figure: Saarland University computer scientists

The biggest challenge for the past year in global economies and their supply chains was the COVID-19 itself. One of South Asia’s textile manufacturing countries, Pakistan also faced difficulty throughout the period but surprisingly within a few months, the country’s textile sector was moved on track.Figure: Pakistan faced difficulty throughout the COVID-19 period but surprisingly within a few months, the country’s textile sector was moved on track.Courtesy: ILO Asia-Pacific/Flickr. Creative Comm

ZURICH – As part of the regular annual updates to its testing criteria and limit values, Oeko-Tex has included an approach to integrate recycled materials as part of its Standard by 100 along with the systemic integration of the carbon and water footprint into its ‘Made in Green’ traceability standard.Other updates include changes to limit values for metals in tanned leather and PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid), the introduction of virtual audits due to on-going travel restrictions, as well as reve

Bangladesh’s cotton import growth signifies that the apparel sector is growing. The local cotton import raised by about 9% to 75 lakh bales in the 2019-20 marketing year (MY) – the cotton marketing year begins in August and ends in July and one bale equals to 480 pounds – in spite of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, said a data from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).Figure: Bangladesh’s cotton imports grew by about 9% to 75 lakh bales in the 2019-20 marketing year (MY).US cotton e

Yanhuiping majored intextile engineering at Donghua University. He is a teacher at Xuancai Textile Training Center now, and will give a lecture from15:30 to 16:30 on January 6th. He will teach professional knowledge of textile and answer questions fromaudiences in the live stream chatting room.

GLOBAL – A statement issued by the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) and Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) says the coronavirus pandemic has created “a new level of despair among workers” and warns that “if brands don’t step up to help stanch the human damage the pandemic and their own practices are doing across the globe, the suffering will be enormous”.Authored by the CCC’s campaign and outreach director Christie Miedema and the WRC’s executive director Scott Nova and crisis response director Liana Fo