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Cottonique to offer allergy-free cotton garments
A new brand, cottonique.com, is launching to provide high-quality allergy-free, skin-friendly clothing for people with sensitive skin. Cottonique is offering a range of products manufactured with new,...
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Egypt’s Textile Industry on Growth Path After an € 80 million EU Funding
The support from the Egyptian Government and the European Union (EU) have triggered a wave of modernization and restructuring in Egypt’s textile and spinning industries, with an increasing number of s...
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International Textile Yarn Expo to Draw Attention
The Fifth China International Textile Yarn Exhibition is scheduled from March 27 to 29 at International Trade Center, Beijing. The expo is organized by China Textile Industry Association. The organize...
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Japan firm pitches for Egypt ethylene plant.
The Egyptian Ministry of Oil has received a proposal for a $2.5 bn (EUR 1.7 bn) ethylene cracker project in the Doumyat area on Egypt's east coast from an unidentified Japanese firm. On 15 Jan 2008, a...
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Textile Workers Demand Higher Wages
At least 10,000 employees of Egypt’s biggest textile factory gathered last month to protest against price hikes, and demanded a sharp rise in minimum wages nationwide. Workers at the Ghazl Al Mahalla...
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Italian Fashion Brands to Set Up Shop
Ten Italian companies have announced they will set up textile, apparel and leather goods factories in Egypt. Their brands, which include Marzotto, Ermenegildo Zegna, Valentino and Salvatore Ferragamo,...
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Manufacturing industries index comparatively higher by 1.6%
On an annual basis production for Manufacturing Industries for January 2008 was 1.6% higher than in January 2007. The seasonally adjusted volume of industrial production for Manufacturing Industries f...
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ISRAEL: Delta Galil names CEO of US and Europe
Intimate apparel maker Delta_Galil Industries Ltd has named Mr Zvika Shamir as CEO of its US upper market and Europe intimate apparel division and Mr Motti Fireman as vice president of human resources...
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EICA Releases Cotton Spot Rates
For the past many years, the East India Cotton Association (EICA) has played a significant role not only in the development of all the required infra-structure facilities for smooth and orderly market...
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India - Bt tech to help raise cotton productivity to world levels
Cotton production in India in 2007-08 is estimated by the Cotton Association of India, to be at a record level of 310 lakh bales of 170 kg each up from 280 lakh bales in the previous season. The yield...
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Tesco to ban Uzbek cotton
UK retail giant Tesco has asked its suppliers to stop sourcing cotton from Uzbekistan after an investigation by the Environmental Justice Foundation found children were being forced to work in the for...
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USA: FDA allot approval to use textile-based ECG Electrode
WILMINGTON: The textile innovation company, focused on the development of energy activated warming, illuminating, conducting, and sensing textile materials and systems, Textronics, Inc. has received U...
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EGYPT: Egypt's textile industry on growth path
Egypt's textile industry on growth path after € 80 million EU funding; € 19.5 m being used for industry restructure. The steadfast support from the Egyptian Government and the European Union (EU) have...
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Garment workers in Dhaka protest
Hundreds of garment workers have taken to the streets in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, in protest over the sudden closure of their factory. They blocked roads in the Sheorepara area of the city, cau...
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Arvind Mills Ltd – Budget Reactions
The proposed budget has announced leapfrog changes in Indirect Taxes especially addressing long awaited reductions in CENVAT Rate to 14%, reduction in Excise Duty for Pharma and automotive sector and...
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Canada : North American men's apparel retailer to close Canadian facility
The Men's Wearhouse announced that it is closing its manufacturing facility (dba: Golden Brand) based in Montreal, Quebec on or around July 2008. "This was a very difficult decision for us to make and...
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German textile industry faces strike threat
The German trade union IG Metall, has announced warning strikes in the clothing and textile industry for next week after a third round of talks in the current pay negotiations failed to produce result...
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INDIA: No remedial measures for sick textile sector
The industry has been crying since April, 2007 about the appreciating Rupee and very fast erosion of competitiveness of this sector. The industry was expecting concrete proposals to address the issue...
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Study finds high contamination levels in Cotton
By John Zarocostas GENEVA — Twenty-two percent of raw cotton sold in the last two years was seriously or moderately contaminated, which poses a burden for spinning mills, according to a global industr...
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Why do Turkish investors are coming to Egypt?
ISTANBUL- Hürriyet ALK Holding's textile unit is in a bottleneck, wrote Mahmut اalk, the father of اalk Holding Chairman Ahmet اalk in a letter to the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoًan. “I gave unpa...