Archive: 2017
Indonesian exporters 'delighted' with US withdrawal from TPP
The withdrawal of the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement has delighted many Indonesian textile and apparel exporters, as they will now have a level...
Investment invited for textile and garment zone in Myanmar
Myanmar’s Ministry of Industry is inviting both local and foreign investment to develop a specialised textile and clothing zone in Shwe Taung, Bano region.
Thai Bedding to diversify into hotel market
Thai Bedding, a producer of mattresses and bedding products, is diversifying into the hotel business, allocating at least THB1bn (US$28.
Kolon subsidiary approved for US$220m plant in Vietnam
South Korea’s Kolon Industries has received approval to invest US$220m in a factory manufacturing KVT-1 industrial fabric for automobile tyres in the southern Vietnamese province...
EU Council scraps import quotas for Belarusian textiles
The Council of the EU has abolished import quotas for Belarusian textile products.
New workwear plant in Latvia to employ 120 people by year end
The new Lindström workwear plant in Tukums, Latvia, currently employs 100 people, but by the end of the year the number of employees will be...
Retail chains compete with global nonwovens producers in Russia
Global producers of nonwovens-based personal care products may face serious competition from retailers over the next few years owing to the plans of the latter...
ALC Bulgaria expands production
ALC Bulgaria is about to open a third factory in Bulgaria.
Turkey’s Ormo opening yarn factory in Serbia
Zoran Ilic, president of the municipality of Lebane, Serbia, said the yarn factory in the municipality will most probably restart production by the end of...
Bosnian sock producer looks for foreign business partner
Gordan Milinić, director of the Agency for Foreign Investment Promotion, has visited the Kljuc sock factory in Sarajevo to discuss the company’s business plans with...