Archive: 2018

Belgian-owned Marbul, which has been manufacturing women’s garments for 10 years in a rented building in Rakovski near Plovdiv, Bulgaria, has built its own factory...

Turkish company Avrasya Tekstil plans to lease a production hall in Babusnica and build a facility in Pirot, both in Serbia.

Tajikistan plans to increase textile production this year as the country was able to over-fulfil a plan for the harvesting of cotton in 2017.

Automotive textiles and seat components supplier Trèves TSC has been renamed Tesca.

The first 737 tourist class seats from commercial aircraft seating manufacturer Lift by EnCore have entered into service with launch customer LOT Polish Airlines.

European polyolefin fibre producer Beaulieu Fibres International is once again the recipient of a Distinguished Supplier European Supplier Award from Yanfeng Automotive Interiors.

Japan Vilene, part of Germany’s Freudenberg, is to buy Hanns Glass to boost its car floor mats business.

Toray Advanced Textile Mexico has opened its new automotive airbag nylon yarn and fabric manufacturing and distribution plant in Mexico.

Fibertex Nonwovens has acquired Brazilian nonwovens manufacturer DUCI, giving it a foothold in the growing South American market as a supplier of nonwovens for the...

Prolexus Group, one of Malaysia’s biggest clothing manufacturers, has delayed the completion of a new facility in Vietnam to concentrate on the imminent opening of...

Cambodia’s clothing producers have welcomed a reported drop in the number of workers who fainted while at work in apparel factories last year, although the...

The Dutch Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries (CBI) is holding an export coaching programme to support locally owned clothing factories in...

Scientists at the National University of Singapore have devised a fast and cheap method of converting waste cotton into aerogel, a super-lightweight and versatile substance...

German business shirt brand Olymp is entering the Thai market, aiming to use it as a springboard to expand into the ASEAN region.

In a meeting last month with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Hanoi, Hyosung chairman Cho Hyun-joon committed to utilising Vietnam as a global...

Moldova remains Europe’s poorest economy, with gross domestic product per capita less than US$6,000 per year. However, this small country with 3.