Archive: 2016

State-controlled Gia Dinh Textile and Garment sold more than 15m shares, equivalent to a 24. 28% stake, for more than VND155. 8bn (US$6.

The Women’s Center Uzice in Uzice, Serbia, is seeking an investment of €180,000 (US$200,000) in a venture to recycle textile fibres.

Lithuania-based Apranga, the largest Baltic fashion retail chain, has opened the first Sandro and Maje stores in the Baltic countries, reports LETA/BNS.

Kira Plastinina, a Russian clothing network owned by the daughter of Russian billionaire Sergey Plastinin, has revised its earlier announced plans for global expansion in...

Opportunities for partnerships in the textile industry between Bulgaria and Turkmenistan were discussed at a recent meeting between Atamurat Ataev, Deputy Minister of Textile Industry...

Production is planned to restart at the former Rudnik textile plant in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia, by the end of April with 300 workers employed.

Human rights advocates have petitioned the World Bank, calling on it to suspend payments to the Uzbek government until it stops the use of forced...

Takata, the embattled Japanese manufacturer of rupture-prone airbags, has put its automotive interiors division up for sale in a move to improve the company’s balance...

Versaperm has developed a next-generation solution to test the permeability of aerospace fabrics.

Innovative inkjet printing for car seat covers has been introduced by Johnson Controls.

Researchers from Innventia, Swerea and KTH Royal Institute of Technology have developed a model car to demonstrate that lightweight, fuel-efficient cars of the future can...

H Dawson Wool, an international wool merchant based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK, has acquired a controlling equity stake in Axminster Carpets, which has operated...

Indorama Synthetics, Indonesia’s biggest producer of textile raw materials, has started production at a US$40m spinning mill facility in Purwakarta, West Java says the country’s...

Indonesian firm Sri Rejeki (Sritex) has signed a US$50m deal with Cambodia’s Ministry of Interior to supply the country’s police and armed forces with new...

National Kenaf and Tobacco Board chairman Datuk Mohd Adhan Kechik said that, during the October 2014 – December 2015 period, Malaysia exported 760 tonnes of...

Bogart Lingerie is set to open its third plant in Myanmar in June, three years after becoming the first international lingerie manufacturer to set up...