Cotton also know as ‘white gold’ is a significant export product of Turkmenistan and is a demanded raw material for dozens of modern companies of the dynamically developing textile industry in the country. It is planned to produce 1,050,000 tons of cotton in Turkmenistan in 2017. It is currently harvest time in the country. Turkmenistan plans to harvest 1,05 million tons of cotton, particularly in Akhal velayat – 207,000 tons, in Dashoguz velayat – 230,000 tons, in Lebap velayat – 300, 000 to

Texworld a major international exhibition which brings together the key players where fashion is made and trends are set worldwide. At the 41st edition of Texworld fair running in Paris, thirty six Pakistani companies are participating. The participates includes some of the major Pakistani textile groups/exporters like Nishat Mills, Kohinoor, Sapphire, Liberty Textiles, Kamal Limited, Masood Textiles and Lucky Textiles in the exhibition. The participation by Pakistani would greatly help in

Readymade garments (RMG) exports dropped by 3.84 per cent in August. Exporters have said that they are not able to confirm orders since, after the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), duty drawback and rebate of state levies (RoSL) are yet to be decided. In August 2017, Rs 8,556.35 crore worth of RMG exports were reported as against Rs 8,897.77 crore a year ago — a drop of 3.84 per cent. Tirupur Exporters Association President Raja M Shanmugam said that the trend would conti

The election process of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma) has been halted and procedure may prolong to next month, as a former chairman of Aptma from Khyber Pakhtunhwa Ahmed Kuli Khan has approached the court for stay order. Usually election process completes in September every year and new body takes charge at the end of the month but this does not seem to happen this year and election process would be dragged till the end of October. According to the industry sources, as many a

A group of Chinese and US experts on cross-border e-trade and financing gathered on Sunday to talk about how technology could improve collaboration and transactions between the world's two largest economies. Zhang Bin, chief executive of Beijing-based Union Mobile Financial Technology, brought a team whose members each have more than 10 years of experience in China's finance and mobile-payment technology to meet with US residents in Silicon Valley at a Sino-American cross-border trade and tec

As London Fashion Week opened Friday morning, an attempted terrorist attack took place on the Underground by Parsons Green station, the fifth terror incident to take place in Britain in under six months. As the UK terror threat level is raised to its highest rating by prime minister Theresa May and armed forces walk the streets, London Fashion Week almost seems to exist in a separate bubble as fashion houses from Burberry to Topshop present their upcoming collection to the fashion world. Howe

The Centre for Fashion Enterprise(CFE), based at London College of Fashion, UAL is relocating its Manufacturers Trade Show so that it runs alongside luxury fashion fabric show, Textile Forum, in London. Textile Forum exhibitors will be showing more than 70 collections of fabrics for spring/summer and autumn/winter while CFE will showcase over 20 exhibitors. The two shows are slated to run during October 11-12, 2017. “The two shows will provide designers with an unrivalled opportunity to

SGS has expanded testing facilities in Naucalpan, Mexico, creating a major testing hub for textiles and apparel in Central and South America. Approved by the US CPSC to perform ‘use and abuse’ and flammability tests, the site has developed its range of physical tests to include Martindale Pilling, colorfastness to burnt gas, ICI Pilling and the rain test. Formally opened in August 2017 by SGS EVP, Richard Shentu, SGS Mexico managing director, Hermann Saenger, and SGS Mexico laboratory manage

The Odisha state government has decided to seek support from the World Bank (WB) to develop its textile, handloom and handicrafts sector. A meeting of senior officials from both sides was held recently in Bhubaneswar to finalize a project to raise the income of the artisans and weavers by increasing domestic sale and exports and standardise design patterns. “No financial decision has been taken yet on the project. We expressed Odisha government’s keen interest and they also expressed theirs,

Chief Executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said here Saturday that Hong Kong SAR and ASEAN are about to sign a free trade agreement and a related investment agreement. Lam made the remarks in her keynote speech at the opening of the 14th World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention (WCEC), which kicked off on Saturday. The agreements will cover trade in goods, trade in services, investment, economic and technological cooperation, dispute settle