Archive: March 2020

Supreme Nonwovens Group, one of India’s largest and most diversified nonwovens groups, has through its majority-owned Thai subsidiary Supreme Feltol Thailand acquired the automotive interior...

Automotive seating supplier Adient has sold its Recaro Automotive Seating business to Raven Acquisitions, a Detroit, Michigan, USA-based, privately owned investment corporation in a transaction...

Concorde Group has been sold to Ideal Automotive, a German company that has more than 50 years’ experience in the market and international presence in...

Two major trade shows with relevance to the transport textiles industry have been postponed owing to concerns over the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).

Electric sportscar brand Polestar, which is jointly owned by Volvo and its parent company Geely, has announced it will make future models with sustainable materials.

Sicomin has supplied bio-based resins for the Greenboats Flax 27, an 8.

The EU will partially suspend Cambodia’s trade preferences because of systematic violations of human rights.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has inaugurated the country’s largest integrated viscose production facility.

Myanmar could be facing clothing factory shutdowns as the coronavirus epidemic hampers its raw materials supply, according to the Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association.

A Philippine lawmaker has urged government agencies to work together to strengthen the country’s textile industry.

Japanese biotechnology company Spiber is constructing its first commercial factory in Thailand, its first facility outside Japan.

Vietnam’s textile industry has been urged to source raw materials from Malaysia and India while its main supplier China rides out the storm created by...

Owing to the ongoing coronavirus epidemic in China, almost all Russian textile and clothing producers have begun to search for alternative partners that could replace...

A tender worth €10m (US$10. 8m) is being offered by the Hungarian government to establish a wool processing facility, of which only €4m (US$4.

Global environmental organisation Greenpeace has recognised SBA Group company Utenos Trikotazas as the first, and so far only, company in the world to work entirely...

Estonian clothing company Baltika Group has laid off more than 300 workers.