The government of Kyrgyzstan is considering active development of the country's textile industry over the next few years with the aim of creating conditions for…
The Russian government is considering creating conditions for the recovery of cotton production to reduce the country’s dependence on imports.
The financial market crisis has exerted a major impact on the Polish home furnishings market, which declined by 5% on average over the last two…
Sportswear manufacturer Adidas has rejected claims of labour rights violations in several of its supplier’s apparel and footwear factories in Indonesia.
Sweden-based H&M has hit back at accusations that it fails to pay adequate wages to workers in Cambodian factories making its clothing.
Vietnamese yarn manufacturer Thien Nam Spinning and Chinese polyester fabric producer Shengzhou Sunrise Textile have established a joint venture called Thien Nam Sunrise Textile to…
The Technology & Design Forum of the Railway & Mass Transit Interiors Technology & Design Expo 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, provided a three-day conference…
At the recent Smart Aircraft Cabin Interiors Conference in Hamburg, Germany, organised by IQPC, lightweight and green solutions to reduce the carbon dioxide footprint and…
Teijin has announced that its V-Lap lightweight, sound-absorbing polyester material has been selected for use in the floor carpet of the new Mitsubishi Outlander, a…
Indonesia’s Pan Brothers, which makes clothing for such global brands as Calvin Klein and The North Face, plans to launch its own brand of apparel…
Hoa Tho Textile & Garment, a leading Vietnamese textile and clothing manufacturer and a member of the Vietnam National Textile and Apparel Group (Vinatex), has…
Matjaz Hudopisk has been appointed head of Slovenian clothing maker AHA Mura, which was formed on 1 October through the merger of AHA Moda and…
Exports of Latvian light and textile products for the first half of the current year reached LVL175m (US$322m) in value terms, most of which came…
A documentary revealing the miserable conditions faced by Cambodian factory workers producing goods for the fashion retailer H&M was aired on Swedish national television on…
After a year of negotiations, Sparta, one of Lithuania’s largest sock and hosiery manufacturers, has started exports of sports socks to New Zealand.
Several presentations at September’s Man-Made Fibers Congress in Dornbirn, Austria, highlighted new flame-retardant (FR) fibre developments that indicate recent trends in this area.