Allocation for skill development and integrated textile parks has gone up in the interim budget presented by Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Monday. Textile industry sources here told The Hindu that the Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (which has given a boost to modernisation of the textile industry) had an allocation of Rs. 2,300 crore last year. It was revised to Rs. 1,956 crore later. For 2014-15, the allocation is Rs. 2,400 crore. In the case of skill development, the bu

Department of Environment on Monday fined 42 dyeing and washing factories in Dhaka district Tk 1.26 crore for polluting the water of the Buriganga River. After a hearing at DoE’s Dhaka headquarters, its director (monitoring and enforcement) Mohammad Alamgir fined the factories for operating without effluent treat plants (ETPs) which led to the discharging of huge effluents into the river. The DoE ordered the representatives of the factories to immediately install ETPs and the failure of wh

Safety experts hired by Western retailers such as H&M and Benetton will begin a mass inspection Wednesday of clothing factories in Bangladesh, nearly a year after 1,135 garment workers died in a building collapse. Dozens of fire officers and structural engineers will begin inspecting more than 1,500 plants and then recommend safety improvements in an exercise that is expected to last until September. Bangladesh is the world's second biggest clothing manufacturer and the sector is the m

On 19 February, IndustriALL Global Union, the ITUC and a number of global brands will meet with the Cambodian government to discuss the situation in the country’s garment industry following police violence that left four workers dead. The violent end to the strike of Cambodian garment workers, rallying for an increased minimum wage in January, left four people dead, 39 injured and 23 workers imprisoned. Recently two workers were released. Of the remaining 21 detainees, 16 are on hunger strike

China has made some changes to its leather products’ import tariff, with effect from January 1, 2014. According to the information released by China Leather Network, there is no change in average MFN tariff of 12.6 percent for leather products imports. However, import tariffs on leather products from Peru, Chile, New Zealand and Costs Rica have been further decreased compared to last year, as per FTA terms with these countries. The average import tariff on leather product imports from P

Fourth ITMA ASIA + CITME combined exhibition gears up to affirm its position as leading global platform for textile and garment machinery. Global textile majors are wooing Indian textile mills to upgrade their technologies and make new investments in machinery. With India’s annual textile production expected to reach $ 220 billion by 2020 from the current level of $ 90 billion, major investments are expected to be made in India. India’s textile industry contributes about 14 per cent to in

The Ministry of Environmental Protection, Government of China, has announced new discharge standard of water pollutants for leather and fur making industry (GB 30486-2013), to be implemented with effect from March 1, 2014. China has the world’s largest leather manufacturing industry, in terms of scale of production, but it has some major problems, for example, large pollution load, mixed contents in wastewater, different pollution management levels, and little effort in promoting cleaner prod

Cotton made in Africa continues its path of success besides long-term partners an additional 70,000 smallholder farmers benefit from the cotton initiative for the first time. Nearly 70,000 smallholder farmers in Ghana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and C?te d'Ivoire benefit from the Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) initiative's program for the first time and are able to market CmiA-tested cotton. In this way, the initiative is further expanding its cooperation with smallholder families in Sub-Saharan Afr

The exports fell to $2.24bn in January from $2.28bn one month earlier Bangladesh’s readymade garment exports have declined by 1.66% or $38m in January from December as, apparel makers said, production was disrupted by political unrest. The exports fell to $2.24bn in January from $2.28bn one month earlier, Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) data. “Political unrest has dented the RMG factory production, which reflects in the fall of exports,” said Abdus Salam Murshedy, president of Exp

A fire broke out at a textile mill at Brahmandi in Narsingdi district town on Sunday night, burning down a huge quantity of cotton in its warehouse, UNB reported. Fire service sources said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at the cotton warehouse of ‘Joba Textile Mills’ at about 9:00pm and it soon engulfed huge cotton stacked there. On information, five firefighting units from Madhabdi, Ghorashal, Manohardi, Raipura and district town rushed to the spot and doused the blaze