Primark currently uses sustainable cotton in women’s pajamas, denim, towels and bedding. Men’s wear and T-shirts are next in line. As a part of this program, the fast fashion retailer has set a new target of training 1,60,000 farmers in India, Pakistan and China in eco-friendly farming methods by 2022. Different farming methods being taught include efficient irrigation, planting in rows with trenches to maximise drainage and introducing pesticides and fertilizers such as cow dung to reduce the u

OnPoint Manufacturing's Kirby Best and Gerber's Karsten Newbury. © Gerber TechnologyOnPoint Manufacturing, a leader in on-demand personalised apparel manufacturing, has announced the arrival and installation of Gerber Technology’s newGERBERcutter Z1cutter and theAccuMarksuite of products at OnPoint’s headquarters in Florence, AL.The software and Industry 4.0 cutter installation is the next phase of a larger strategic partnership between OnPoint and Gerber Technology that was first announ

Eighteen months ago, dye sublimation didn’t even register on the dial at Manchester Print Services, the wide-format digital printing company set-up by Lee Egan and Andy Lambert in 2010. Sixteen months ago, aMimaki JV5 320-DSdye sublimation printer bought through CMYUK, the UK’s largest independent supplier of digital wide format printers, cutters and materials, paved the way.Today the company is the owner of the UK’s firstHP Stitch S1000dye sub printer installed at its Manchester-based premises

This year’s Techtextil and Texprocess were the biggest editions ever. Messe Frankfurt GmbH / Pietro SuteraExhibitors can now register immediately for the two leading international trade fairs Techtextil and Texprocess 2021. Once again, from 4-7 May 2021, Techtextil and Texprocess, the leading international trade fairs for technical textiles and nonwovens and for the processing of textile and flexible materials, will be attracting exhibitors and visitors from all over the world to Frankfurt.Compa

Plastic pollution is a vital problem in modern times. Many companies like Patagonia, G-Star Raw, DGrade, Ecoalf, Nike, ADAY are recycling plastic waste to create new garments. Another Japanese retailer is coming forward to contribute in the climate change action and raise awareness among the consumers.Courtesy: CollectedIn corporation with Toray industries, Uniqlo is prepared to recycle plastic bottles for clothing.The used polyethylene terephthalate bottles produce fibers that are already avail

The National Board of Revenue is likely to reduce source tax on proceeds from all export items, including apparels, to 0.25 percent to help increase competitiveness of local products in international markets.An NBR annual report mentioned that the tax authority got Tk 2,136 crore in fiscal 2016-17 from the source, up 17 percent from Tk 1,811 crore a year ago. The tax cut will cause a loss of quite a good amount of revenue.Figure: Source tax on apparel exportto be cut so that entrepreneurs can im

The ongoing trade war between the US and China has been an opportunity for Bangladesh in enlarging export earnings from the United States of America.Since the apparel sector contributes 84.20% to the total export earnings, the opportunity to capitalize on the conflict was driven by the RMG sector.Figure 1: Bangladesh should give importance on product development and diversification to grab more market share.The sector has already seen a sharp rise in export earnings from the US market and more o

Denim has become the ultimate engine of self-expression worldwide. Denim trends have evolved a lot over time, but its popularity never waning. And globally the denim consumers are on the lookout for perfect fitting denim jeans.Figure 1: Perfectly fitted jeans with zero-waste. Courtesy: Unspun, a venture-backed robotics and apparel company, based in San Francisco and an office in Hong Kong as well, making custom jeans for each consumer on-demand.As customer choices are in the super-fast mode, kee

The apparel industry, like any other industry, is undergoing a revolution which is termed as apparel 4.0. It can be explained as the digitization of textile and apparel industry processes, from concept to post retail, with the help of the latest technology such as IoT, AI and Cloud Computing, enabling companies to monitor and automate the entire production process with complete supply chain transparency.Figure 1: Bangladesh’s textile and apparel industry entering its automation phase.Coming to B

Selvedge denim production in the United States is going to be revived from this month, which is an initiative of, an agile North American textile maker.Backstory, the last and most famous selvedge denim mill in the U.S. closed.denim mill in Greensboro, North Carolina, named White Oak, announced it would fold due to a lack of orders at the end of. With the closing the American made denim came to an extinction leaving a dearth of mills left in the U.S.Vidalia Mills’ road to revive the production o