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INDIA: Cotton Cloth Price Goes up by 20 pc
The price of all types of cotton cloth has increased by 15-20 per cent in the Erode textile market, the largest textile market in Tamil Nadu. The major reason for the hike is rise in yarn price by 25...
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INDIA: Textile Industry to Take Out Procession on July 2
According to the statistics, of the 230 lakh cotton bales produced in 2007-08, the organized sector consumed 210 lakh bales and the unorganized sector, comprising small spinning mills, 20 lakh bales....
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PAKISTAN: Textile Sector Imperative to Strengthen National Economy
A vibrant, progressive and efficient textile sector is imperative to strengthen national economy and in this connection National Productivity Organization (NPO) was implementing a project of best prac...
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TURKEY: Turkey to see Decline in Cotton Production
NY futures surged higher this week, with July gaining an impressive 499 points to close at 69.64 cents, while December advanced 394 points to close at 76.95 cents. There were plenty of reasons for the...
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EGYPT: Saudi Group Buys Stake in Egypt's Oriental Weavers
Egypt-based rug and carpet maker Oriental Weavers sold 941,291 of its own shares on Wednesday to a strategic consortium led by the Saudi-based private equity group Amwal AlKhaleej, the company said.
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TURKEY: Industrial Capacity Utilization Down
Turkey's Institute of Statistics (TURKSTAT) reported industrial capacity utilization down by 0.9 points in May 2008 compared to the same month in May 2007. Measured by Turkey's 5,000 or so industrial...
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CAMBODIA: Cambodian Garment Exports to U.S. Decline Seriously
Apparel exports to the United States, Cambodia's largest market; have been on serious decline since last October, national media quoted the Cambodian Ministry of Commerce as saying. Officials attribut...
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NEPAL: Nepal's Readymade Garments Export to US Plummets
Nepali readymade garment (RMG) exporters continued to suffer yet another month as exports to the United States, the single largest market of Nepali readymade garment exports, plummeted by 51 per cent...
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SRI LANKA: Sri-Lankan Workers in Egypt Risk Deportation
At least 142 Sri Lankans employed at Vilocity Textile Industry in Egypt will be deported to Sri Lanka within the next few days unless they give up their week-long strike against the management, the Sr...
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INDIA: Need to Improve Cotton Production TN.
With the textile mills in Tamil Nadu consuming nearly 80 lakh bales of cotton annually, the State needs to increase its cotton production from the current five lakh bales a year, according to P.D. Pat...
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PAKISTAN: Thirty Textile Mills Shut Down in Karachi
As many as 30 textile mills in the different industrial areas of Karachi have shut down completely. Twenty mills wound up in site area while 10 in North Karachi industrial area because of rise in cost...
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INDIA: Garment Sector May Face the Burn of Fuel Price Rise
The Central Government has increased the Petrol and Diesel prices by Rs. 5/- per litre and Rs. 3/- per litre respectively (4.6.2008) The Central Government has hiked the fuel prices due to increase in...
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BANGLADESH: Inflation in Apparel Producing Countries
Inflation continues rising in apparel producing countries with prospects of higher labor costs ahead. New demonstrations of garment workers were reported in Bangladesh while similar protests may happe...
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PERU: Low Cost of Textile Production Pulls in Huge Investments
Textile industry of Peru has gradually come to a stage where it is receiving special preference of client countries backed by its low cost of labor, thereby displaying an edge over sectors in other co...
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BANGLADESH: Bangladesh Textile Workers go on Rampage Clash with Police
Police clashed with thousands of garment workers in southwest Bangladesh yesterday during fresh protests over low wages and soaring food prices, police said. The clashes occurred after workers at Kalu...
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EGYPT: Allocation of 12.5 million m2 for New Textile Investments in Egypt
The most recent report by the Egyptian Industrial Development Authority (IDA) of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, asserted that the areas of land allocated to new textile projects have reached 12.5...
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INDIA: High Cotton Prices Hit Textile Mills
With an estimated 315 lakh bales of cotton production in 2007-08 (October-September), India will be the second largest cotton producer in the world this year too. Yet, the domestic textile sector is h...
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PAKISTAN: Pakistan’s Cotton Output Seen at 9.375m bales
Cotton output in Pakistan during 2008/09 is forecasted to rise to 9.375 million (480 lb) bales from 8.750 million bales in the prior crop year, a US Agriculture Department attaché in Islamabad said. T...
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EGYPT: The Governmental Textile Spinning and Weaving Companies Cease Operation
The governmental textile spinning and weaving companies ceased operation since a large number of factories had to cease operations due to the absence of cotton quantities required for operation. Eng....
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INDIA: Textile Industry to Achieve $55 bn of Investments by 2010
Domestic textile industry, which currently is braving various odds, could achieve US$ 55 billion of investments, create job opportunities for 65.4 million workforce and its CAGR could go up at 22% by...