The 25th Fashion Week Spring/Summer, organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, will be held from July 9 to 12, 2018, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. In the light of fashion technology, a series of seminars on the applications of fashion tech will be held during the event to help industry players to keep abreast with the trend. On July 10, 2018, a seminar entitled ‘The Next Wave in Fashion Technology’ will share on some of the state-of-art technologies disrupt

Moving towards sustainability, Thermore has introduced a revolutionary and blowable product - Ecodown Fibres. These fibres ensure the same loft as high quality 90/10 feathers and can likewise be blown into a garment. Tests performed on Ecodown Fibres have shown an outstanding fill power of over 600, which is how the product guarantees that “puffy” look. The loft of down products is calculated with the “fill power test”: fibres are blown through a cylinder and their volume is measured. The

Two more member states of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa — Kingdom of Eswatini, formerly called Swaziland, and Ethiopia — have received green signal from their governments to start cultivation of insect-resistant transgenic Bt cotton. They will join Sudan, a COMESA member state, that initiated commercialization of Bt cotton in 2012.Four African countries — Burkina Faso, Egypt, Sudan and South Africa — had to date commercialized Bt cotton, according to information on COMESA sec

The inaugural US Functional Fabric Fair by Performance Days, which will be held on July 23 and 24, 2018, in New York, has attracted global exhibitors and visitors. Top textile manufacturers and service providers, along with sports fashion designers, product managers, purchasing agents, representing functional wear manufacturers, will be seen at the expo. One month prior to the event, some 70 companies are exhibiting and more than 400 attendees from 12 countries have registered to attend th

Egypt’s garment exports rose by 12 per cent during January-May to reach $645 million against $575 million during the same period last year, the Readymade Garments Export Council (RMGEC) said in its monthly report. Exports to the United States also rose by 12 per cent in the same period, recording $310 million, against $276 million in the corresponding period in 2017. The country’s garments exports to Europe during the period was $219 million against $189 million in 2017 — an increase of 16 pe

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) recently hosted a forum to create a networking platform for Kyrgyz garment firms and foreign brands and buyers. The forum brought together over 20 European and Russian brands and fashion retailers, international apparel equipment manufacturers, and software developers with Kyrgyz apparel firms. An exhibition of the latest garment technologies and business-to-business meetings for buyers, investors, and Kyrgyzstani apparel manufact

The Cotton Association of India (CAI) has retained its cotton crop estimate for the ongoing crop year 2017-18 at 365 lakh bales of 170 kg each, i.e. at the same level as in its estimate made in the previous month. The stock at the end of June 2018 is pegged at 87.45 lakh bales including 51.85 lakh bales with textile mills and 35.60 lakh bales with others. In its June estimate of the cotton crop for the 2017-18 season beginning from October 1, 2017, the CAI has projected total cotton supply up

Bangladesh’s jute ministry is working on a policy to set up a Tk-10,000 crore fund to offer low-cost loans to farmers, traders, industrialists, goods producers and exporters for developing the jute sector. A panel headed by Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) chairman Mohammad Mahmudul Hassan has prepared the draft for the Jute Sector Development Fund. The government should form a 20-year revolving fund based on the budgetary allocation to provide the loans, which should be disbursed at

The National Cotton Council (NCC) will be working to ensure that final farm legislation will address the serious shortcomings of the Senate farm bill, the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018. NCC’s mission is to ensure the ability of US cotton industry segments to compete effectively in the raw cotton, oilseed, and US-manufactured product markets abroad. One of those major concerns involves the Economic Adjustment Assistance Programme (EAAP). That programme, which had been eliminated in th

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, a leading developer of spider silk based fibres, is collaborating with a local cooperative in Quang Nam province, Vietnam to expand mulberry production. This effort is a major element of the company’s production expansion plans and marks a significant increase in capacity. The company plans to add nearly 2,500 acres of mulberry. News of this collaboration was published in a leading Vietnamese digital media outlet, which highlights the efforts to focus on high t