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Skilled manpower shortage - Bangladesh
The government has set a target to earn USD 50 billion from readymade garments (RMG) by the year 2021. While that sounds very nice, little has been done to address the great shortage in skilled manpow...
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Sweden's H&M signs pledge for textile workers
Swedish retail giant H&M on Tuesday signed an agreement promising better labour rights for 1.6 million workers at its suppliers' factories.
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Textile industry welcomes extension of export benefit
The Southern India Mills' Association has said that this has come as a relief to the textile industry, particularly the spinning sector. The benefit given to manmade fibre spun yarn might increase exp...
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Fraunhofer ISC to present new textile-integrated sensors for medical devices at IDTechEX 2015
At the IDTechEX, Fraunhofer ISC will show a new class of mechanical sensors suitable for integration into woven or knitted fabrics for use in medical devices, as well as a novelkind of pressure stocki...
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Chinese Textile Mills Are Now Hiring in Places Where Cotton Was King
INDIAN LAND, S.C. — Twenty-five years ago, Ni Meijuan earned $19 a month working the spinning machines at a vast textile factory in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. Now at the Keer Group’s cotton mill in...
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Cotton USA Hosts Latin American Uniform Garment Manufacturers Delegation
COTTON USA is pleased to announce that it will host a delegation of Latin American uniform garment manufacturers at the 2015 NAUMD (North-American Association of Uniform Manufacturers and Distributors...
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Global cotton summit begins in Dhaka
A two-day global cotton summit began in Dhaka on 21st of March.
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Egypt seeks to promote cotton cultivation
Egyptian authorities are working to boost local cotton cultivation, bringing this core agricultural sector back to life after several years of decline.
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Moroccan textile industry is committed to create 90,000 jobs by 2020
The Moroccan textile industry is committed to create 90,000 jobs by 2020, according to the terms of a performance agreement signed at the end of February by the Moroccan Association of Textile and Clo...
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Textile exporters in a spin as euro slumps
The euro tumbled against the dollar — falling 3.6 cents — after the strong US jobs data released last week. With the euro at 1.06 to the dollar, the market is bracing for the currency reaching parity...
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Saudis account for 27% of Arab investments in Egypt
Saudi Arabia is the largest Arab investor in Egypt with their investments reaching some $5.7 billion (SR21.3 billion), or 27 percent of the Arab totals invested in that country, Egyptian Commercial At...
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Dubai to host second edition of ITF for fabric in April
The second edition of the International Textile Fair (ITF), UAE’s premier platform for fashion, home textile fabrics, and clothing, would be held from April 26 to 27, 2015, at the Dubai international...
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As China slows down, the Philippines moves to grab foreign investment
The Philippines, a nation long in need of industrialization, is taking steps this year pull investment away from Asia’s manufacturing center: China. And some multinationals are already giving the Sout...
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Egypt's Mahalla textile factory workers end four-day strike after deal reached - See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypts-mahalla-textile-factory-workers-end-four-day-strike-after-management-agreement-260129749#sthash.zTpoZWta.dpuf
Workers at a textile factory in the Egyptian town of Mahalla ended a four-day strike on Saturday after working out an agreement with management to be paid a previously promised profit share and discus...
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Foreign firms expand Vietnam production in anticipation of Pacific trade pact chances
Foreign investors have pumped dozens of billions of U.S. dollars to expand or start production in Vietnam in anticipation of business opportunities the Trans-Pacific Partnership will bring as the trad...
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Ethiopia: Etur Textile to Start Exporting to Europe and America
Etur Textile, the Turkish textile manufacturer, is going to start exporting its products to Europe and America after its trial export to the two North African nations, Algeria and Morocco, went succes...
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Carbon Holdings to set up petrochemical plant in Egypt
Carbon Holdings, a company based in Egypt, engaged in developing petrochemical plants and projects, is planning to set up a petrochemical project named Tahir, at a cost of US$ 7 billion, in Ain Sokhna...
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Egyptian textile company posts EGP 2.1bn loss in 2013-14
The Holding Company for Spinning and Weaving, a public sector enterprise run by the Government of Egypt, has incurred a loss of EGP 2.1 billion for the ongoing financial year 2013-14, the company’s ch...
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India to contest blacklisting of textile products by US
The Textile Ministry will contest the US Government’s decision to include garments, carpets and embellished textiles produced in India among items that use child labour or forced labour. “We do not ag...
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Angola Gets $1 Billion Boost From Japan to Revive Textile Plants
Angola is spending $1 billion to revamp three fabric plants that will employ 2,700 people, said the local unit of Marubeni Corp. (8002), Japan’s biggest trader of grains and food products, which is re...