Pakistan home textile, garment and towel sector together account for more than $10 billion of it’s exports to European and North American customers and more than 50% of the country’s total exports. They operate much like an ‘a la carte’ restaurant where each meal is prepared fresh to serve each customer’s unique culinary demand. The three sector operate under a philosophy called the ‘make-to-order manufacturing strategy. Large western retailers, to whom this industry sells, rely on their s

Many textiles factories in India have started participating in a project called Sustainable Water Resources (Swar) to improve resource efficiency, cut chemical use in 2014 by 402 tonnes, according to the Stockholm International Water Institute (Siwi). The company said that it considers a reduction in the use of chemicals, in addition to the substitution of harmful substances, a key part of chemical management. The company added that this is particularly true for the textiles industry because

As per projections of the Australian Wool Production Forecasting Committee (AWPFC), shorn wool production is estimated at 341 million kilograms for 2014-15, flat from the 2013-14 season. “This reflects a small drop in shorn sheep numbers offset by higher average fleece weights,” Australian Wool Innovation Limited (AWIL) said in a press release. In case of greasy wool, the production forecast for the 2014/15 season is 341 million kilograms, again the same as the 2013/14 season estimate.

Canada will be a key garment export destination for Bangladesh in achieving the $50 billion overseas sales target by the end of 2021, Canadian High Commissioner Benoît-Pierre Laramée said yesterday. Currently, Bangladesh is the second largest garment exporting nation after China with shipments of $24.5 billion in the last fiscal year. “Canada has been providing support to Bangladesh to develop workers' skills and improve working conditions in the sector for higher export of garment items,”

The imports of man-made filaments and knitted or crocheted fabrics by the Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia increased in the first quarter of 2015, according to the data from Statistics Indonesia. From January to March 2015, Indonesia imported US$ 330 million worth of man-made filaments (HS Code 54), registering a growth of 11.15 per cent over imports of $296.9 million made during the corresponding period of 2014. Likewise, Indonesia’s imports of knitted or crocheted fabrics increased by

Vietnamese lingerie maker Anh Khoa Production and Trading Company will be importing materials from India. Anh Khoa has recently signed a memorandum of understanding for importing materials from members of the Indian Synthetic and Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council (SRTEPC), according to Vietnamese media reports. Initially, Anh Khoa will buy feedstock from India and later on the cooperation would expand to other fields, said Ngo Ngoc Hoa, CEO of the company. For the first time, an I

Nextt, a $500 million US based home textile company that manufactures home textiles, garments, apparel fabrics and polyester yarns, sells popular brands such as Trina Turk, Kathy Ireland, Jessica McClintock, Raymond Waites etc., and a key supplier to big retailers such as Walmart, Target, Kohl's, Dillard's etc. making plans to soon introduce its popular brands to Indian market. The company CEO Arun Agarwal who has been in India to explore "Make in India" possibilities said that they already h

Recently, Anhui Rifa Textile Machinery Co., Ltd. held an inauguration ceremony in Ma’anshan Intelligent Textile Machinery Industrial Park in Anhui Province for celebrating the completion of its first-phase project of “Rifa Intelligent Textile Machinery R&D and Manufacturing Base”. With a planned total investment of CNY 1 billion and land coverage of 66.7 hectares, the project is a milestone for Rifa to realize the strategy of “upgrading manufacturing level, improving innovation and manag

Mali has more than 3.5 million cotton farmers, and 17 processing factories. The state-owned Malian Company for the Development of Textile (CMDT) and the sole cotton exporter in Mali announced that 2014-15 season ended with record production of 233,000 tonnes of cotton fibre versus 185,000 tonnes the previous year. This is the best ever season in industrial terms: 233,000 tonnes of exportable cotton fibre from 549,000 tonnes of raw cotton, said Moussa Yattara, a technical advisor to the CMDT.

The Century Synthetic Fiber Corporation (CSFC), after successfully issuing 5 million shares last December, has decided to list its shares on the bourse this June. CSFC is one of the very few fiber manufacturers listing shares on the stock market. Its customers are not only final product users, but fabric manufacturers as well. Thanh Cong Joint Stock Co (TCM) is another fiber manufacturer on the bourse. However, TCM’s major products are garments; it makes fiber only to get the best out of the