Nepal is mulling over allowing industries from the non-garments sectors to invest inside the Garment Processing Zone (GPZ) in Simara after not a single garment manufacturer expressed interest to invest there after the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Authority Nepal in May called for applications from interested garment companies to invest inside the GPZ.Despite constructing all infrastructure facilities inside the GPZ in close consultation and coordination with garment entrepreneurs, they are now re

If the United States goes ahead with its threat to impose a 5 per centon all imports from Mexico, the decision would reportedly hurt US denim manufacturers. The United States, which imports nearly all its apparel, gets more men’s blue jeans from Mexico, the eighth largest supplier of apparel to the US, than it does from any other.The US imported about $691 million worth men’s blue jeans from Mexico last year compared to $227 million worth from China, according to US government statistics.A new t

Coats, a leading industrial thread business, has selected Aryaka to streamline the performance of their business applications across its China sites. Headquartered in the UK and with 19,000 employees across 50 countries, Coats has already achieved a 300% improvement in employee user experience since deploying Aryaka networking services. The company is addressing the challenges of connecting its locations in China to its European offices by replacing its legacy, underperforming MPLS solution with

DuPont Biomaterials, Unifi and Youngone have announced a new collection of insulation products that offers soft, dimensionally stable and sustainable options for cold-weather garments and bedding materials.Youngone, a leading global manufacturer of outdoor and athletic clothing, textiles, footwear and gear, is leveraging DuPontSoronarenewably sourced fibre and UnifiRepreverecycled content to debut three new insulation products that provide lightweight breathable warmth with unique softness and s

A focus on customer service, aligned with the drive to constantly innovate, is the motto for the member companies of TMAS – the Swedish texile machinery manufacturers’ association – that will present their latest developments to the international audience at next week’s ITMA in Barcelona.Therese Premler-Andersson, TMAS Secretary General. © TMAS“All of the Swedish textile machinery companies are doing really well in major markets such as Europe, China, India and the USA,” said Therese Premler-And

India, which is emerging as a globalhub and aims to be a $350-billion industry by 2025 from $137 billion now, needs to focus on man-made fibres to stay globally competitive, according to Dilip Gaur, chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) national committee on textile and apparel. Gaur is also the managing director of Grasim Industries.India also needs to createbarriers for China to prevent it from dumping cheap textile products in the, Gaur said at the recent CII Texexcel 2019, t

The European Union (EU) is unlikely to fully withdraw Cambodia’s Everything-But-Arms (EBA)status, the Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia said after meeting visiting EU representatives recently. Labour trends are positive and speculations about EBA are alarmist and affect investor confidence, Kaing Monika, GMAC deputy secretary general said.In February, the European Commission launched a monitoring period which could lead to the suspension of the’s preferential access to the EU market

Imports at Unites State’s major retail container ports are expected to continue to grow this summer as retailers stock up inventory to get ahead of higher tariffs, according to the monthly Global Port Trackerreleased by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Hackett Associates.NRF is the world’s largest retailassociation.“With a major tariff increase already announced and the possibility that tariffs could be imposed on nearly all goods and inputs from China, retailers are continuing to stock

Pictured at Techtextil 2019 in Frankfurt is Dr Heislitz (right) with Freudenberg Performance Materials head of global communications Holger Steingraeber and media relations manager Katrin Böttcher. © Adrian WilsonAt the recent Techtextil show in Frankfurt, Adrian Wilson spoke to Dr Frank Heislitz, CEO of Freudenberg Performance Materials.When we spoke around this time last year, you had only recently assumed the role of CEO of Freudenberg Performance Materials. Your aim was to visit as many of y

Sonoco Alcore will debut Sonoco’s new, patented EcoSPAN™ engineered textile cores to global manufacturers at the upcoming ITMA show, 20-26 June in Barcelona, Spain. Sonoco’s EcoSPAN technology creates a tailored friction surface to drive optimal performance in the demanding realm of Spandex yarn production.Unlike current Spandex yarn cores that use a film-based material on the outer surface, which creates friction-driven transfer problems and minimizes the ability for customization, EcoSPAN core