The exports of textiles from Switzerland recorded marginal growth for the first time after three consecutive years of decline, the Switzerland Textile Federation said at its Annual Media Conference last week. Media persons were told that the performance of the Swiss textile and clothing industry was stable in the last fiscal year, despite a difficult environment. Although there was a small growth in textile exports, the total value of textile and garment exports during the year decreased s

The cotton plantation in most of the cotton yielding areas in Lahore is likely to be impacted by low temperature in February and March and subsequent poor rainfall. This has sparked fear of lesser production among the cotton stakeholders. The member of Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA), Ehasnul Haq, has said that the change in climate has wrecked havoc on the cotton production in key cotton growing districts including Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar, Rahim Yar Khan, Vehari, Pakpattan, Khane

A fire broke out at a textile mill in FB Industrial Area police precincts on Wednesday and caused a loss of millions of rupees. According to the Central Fire Station, the fire broke out at around 12:30pm at the Afroze Textile Mill situated on Rashid Minhas Road. Within minutes the fire spread to other parts of the mill and reduced goods worth millions of rupees to ashes. The mill was open since the fire had erupted in the afternoon. Up to 10 fire engines of the Karachi Metropolitan Corpo

The small-scale dyeing units in Komarapalayam started an indefinite strike, on Wednesday, condemning Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board’s (TNPCB) warning and drive against their units. G.K. Prabakaran, president, Komarapalayam Small Dyeing Units Welfare Association said that all the units will not function until the State and Union Governments worked out a permanent solution for the long pending issue of textile dyeing and pollution. As many as 137 unauthorised dyeing units in this localit

Fatal riots in Vietnam have eroded the interest of some Chinese companies in investing in the country, according to a garment industry official. Some textile companies in Foshan of South China's Guangdong province suspended trips to Vietnam that had been planned to assess the investment environment, said Wu Haoliang, secretary-general of Foshan Textile and Garment Industry Association on Tuesday. A Foshan-invested textile plant in Ho Chi Minh City was slightly dam

The South American country of Brazil would be stocking 512,800 tons of cotton during the 2014 year, which would suffice to supply the domestic industry as well as securing exports for a period of approximately 4 months, states the National Supply Company of Brazil (CONAB). According to the 8th field survey on crops for the 2013/14 harvest season conducted by CONAB, the volume of production of cotton in the country is expected to surge by 26 percent, indicating that Brazil’s cotton production w

Jeans need not be washed, the chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co Chip Bergh has claimed. Speaking at Fortune's Brainstorm Green conference on Tuesday, the Levi's CEO said the pair he was wearing was not “washed in the past year.” He was speaking on the 141st anniversary of Levi's 501 jeans. “We are the ultimate sustainable apparel,” Bergh said. “If you buy (our jeans) they will last a lot longer than most people's waistlines will.” Levi's is said to be producing a line

Employees work at a garment factory in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Analysts predict that Burma’s garment sector is set to expand, but the country will have to compete with other regional states for foreign investment. (Photo: Reuters) Burma, Cambodia and Laos are the potential “hidden markets” of Southeast Asia for investment opportunities, a business study said, but they could end up competing against one another. Burma and Cambodia are both developing tourism and textile manufacturing industri

Soccer wear and shoes from three international sports brands, all of whom are major producers of apparel for the upcoming World Cup in Brazil, were found to contain toxic chemicals, according to a report issued by Greenpeace on Monday. In its report, the environmental organization said it bought sporting goods from Nike, Adidas and Puma in 16 countries and regions across the world and conducted tests on them from March to May. It found that 81 percent of the three brands' soccer shoes and 35

Vietnam’s foreign factory burnings gripped the news headlines last week as a wave of anti Chinese sentiment was sparked by a Chinese drilling rig’s encroachment in the South China Seas, but it can’t be hard to enrage impoverished factory workers struggling to feed themselves on wages that don’t meet their basic needs. Similarly, labor activists in Cambodia have been keen to point out the new minimum wage of $100 per month falls short of the bottom end of the living wage of $160 they have been