Denim is one of the most growing sectors in Bangladesh RMG industry. Bangladesh is the 3rd largest denim garments exporter to the USA and 1stto the EU market. Bangladesh denim sector is facing many challenges like efficiency, quality ensuring, profitability, etc. Efficient denim professionals are vital to ensure the sustainable growth of the denim sector who will run the denim factories successfully.Figure 1: Participants with Trainer Engr. Rafat Hasan Chowdhury at the R&D department of Ambe

Leaders of the textiles and apparel sectorbodies in Bangladesh recently sought 5 per cent cash incentive for export of apparel products to both traditional and non-traditional markets for the next five years to sustain production and maintain the industry’s edge in the global arena. They addressed a press conference in Dhaka recently on the issue.The press conference was jointly organised by the BangladeshMills Association (BTMA), the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (B

At ITMA 2019, Jeanologia, developer of sustainable and efficient technology, will present a new production model based on digitalisation and sustainability that reduces times and simplifies processes, reinventing the way of producing jeans, in booth H2, C312. The garment andtechnology exhibition will be held from June 20-26, 2019, in Barcelona.The company will show a complete solution that achieves 100 per cent ecological production, speeding up time tothrough the perfect integration of hardware

Newgathered by SCORE, a non-profit organisation offering free business mentoring services to small US businesses, reveal 98.6 per cent of US manufacturing companies are small businesses and 75.3 per cent of those have fewer than 20 employees. Manufacturing businesses drive the US economy, said SCORE chief executive officer Ken Yancey.Manufacturing businesses generated 11.6 per cent of the US economic output last year and employed 8.5 per cent of the US workforce, but 89 per cent of manufacturers

To boost job creation and exports, the new government at the Centre should resolve issues related to Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS), Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA) has said. The association has also appealed for release of ₹9,000 crore pending TUFS subsidies on a fast track. The Narendra Modi-led NDA government will take oath on May 30.Pic: ShutterstockTheindustry is the single largest employment provider in India, next only to agriculture. It employs over 110 million people

Britishtycoon Philip Green’s Arcadia Group recently announced plans to close 23 of its 566 UK-Irish stores in a major restructuring of the fashion business that may also see its Topshop/Topman stores close in the United States. Arcadia said it had instigated seven company voluntary arrangements (CVAs), mechanisms that allow the business to avoid insolvency.Arcadia also runs fashion retailers Wallis, Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Burton and Outfit.Several British store groups have eithe

Gucci is under fire for selling a $790 turban. Members of the Sikh community claimed about Gucci’s cultural appropriation of a sacred religious garment offensive. Much of the criticism was directed at the designer’s use of the turban especially on non-Sikh models and claimed about the fact that the majority of models are white.The Italian luxury brand is known for its purpose of branding in an experimental fashion especially is held to show the performance of designers and almost always take the

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition () has launched Higg Co., a public benefit company that will develop the technology that delivers the Higg Index, a holistic suite of sustainability assessment tools used globally by brands, retailers and manufacturers to measure the environmental and social performance of a company or product.Higg Co. will provide the trusted technology industry needs to be able to implement the Higg Index at scale while the SAC will continue to focus on driving sustainability

Biofuze is produced using a unique patent process yarn. © Paradise TextilesFirst introduced at Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics, Paradise Textiles, the textiles arm of Alpine Creations, a leader in textile and apparel biodegradable manufacturing, has announcedBiofuze, its new range of man-made fibres that exhibit enhanced biodegradability at their end of life.“We believe environmental sustainability is everyone’s responsibility,” said Paradise Textiles co-founder Ashok Mahtani. “With the in

ACIMIT member companies exhibiting at Texhtextil, earlier this month. © Innovation in TextilesAround 360 companies will be representing Italian textile machinery manufacturing sector at the upcoming ITMA show, with an occupied exhibition area of 30,000 square metres, which makes Italy the top country in terms of number of exhibitors and occupied surface.ITMA, a leading showcase for manufacturers of textile machines, who display their up to date innovations to an international professional audien