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Related Keywords: develop market linkages, fashion designers, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Fashion Design and Arts Council, KPFDAC, organize a Fashion Week, promote women entrepreneurs, rich Pakhtun culture and tradition, to exhibit and promote handicrafts

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Fashion Design and Arts Council (KPFDAC) to promote the products of women entrepreneurs and rich Pakhtun culture and traditions have announced to organize a Fashion Week. The announcement was made by KPFDAC Chairperson, Muhammad Waqas Ahmad, while addressing at a news conference at press club, here on Wednesday.

The basic purpose of organizing Fashion Week is to develop a soft image of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the world, besides to provide opportunity to women entrepreneurs to exhibit and promote their handicrafts and develop market linkages.

The acrylonitrile markers gained US$20 a ton CFR Far East Asia and Southeast Asia in the third week of April. In China, offers for offshore cargoes were up US$20 a ton on the week. Prices for deep‐sea cargoes were below that level.

Acrylonitrile prices in Asian markets rose for the second consecutive week on tight supply, which led to renewed buying interest from buyers and firmer cost support.

In China, downstream demand picked up a bit as run rate at ASF producers was close to 100% while acrylamide prices held flat amid mild demand.

Related Keywords: Acrylonitrile price in Asia, Acrylonitrile price in Europe, Acrylonitrile price in USA, asf producers, chemical grade propylene

Related Keywords: can be doubled if FTA finalized, contributes nearly ninety percent, good demand from EU, growth in Europe, main hub for knitwear in the country, new buyers, Tirupur, Tirupur would sustain growth in current fiscal, total cotton knitwear exported from India, total share textile exports fell of China, witnessed growth in garment exports

Tirupur, the main hub for knitwear in the country witnessed growth in its garment exports by 16.3 percent to Rs23,050 crore in fiscal year 2016. It contributes nearly 90% of total cotton knitwear exported from the country.

A Sakthivel, President of Tirupur exporters association opined that exports from Tirupur would sustain growth in the current fiscal too following good demand from EU and this can be doubled if the Free Trade agreement (FTA) is finalized.

They have seen growth in Europe and getting new buyers. Exports can jump to Rs.50,000 crore if the FTA with EU is in place.

Related Keywords: Bangaldesh readymade garment sector, energy consumption, IFC, invest in smart technologies, key decision makers, organized by TTBC, promote energy efficient technology, textile and garment sector, under the PaCT programme of World Bank Group, Workship titled Solar PV and LED lighting held

A workshop titled ‘Solar PV & LED Lighting’ was held on Wednesday under the Partnership for Cleaner Textile (PaCT) programme of World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) organized by the Textile Technology Business Centre (TTBC) to promote energy efficient technology in the country’s garment sector.

The workshop showcased the opportunities for Solar PV plus LED Lighting in the textile and garment sector.

Related Keywords: Adam Werbach, co-founder of Yerdle, event on sustainability, handful of tickets left, helped Walmart implement its sustainability strategy, Lessons for the apparel industry from the sharing economy, Oeko Tex, Planet Textiles, present the Re-Use Revolution, sell out four hundred person capacity, sponsored by leadership partner

Planet Textiles 2016 event on sustainability, which is co-organised by MCL News & Media, The Sustainable Apparel Coalition and Messe Frankfurt and is generously sponsored by Leadership partner, Oeko-Tex to take place at the Copenhagen Concert Hall on 11th May. Only a handful of tickets are left for next week’s event with the event expected to sell out the 400 person capacity within the next few days.

Related Keywords: agree to double bilateral trade value, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia, interest in cooperating with various business players, lot of potential for expansion, main export commodities to Saudi Arabia, Middle East market, Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest potential markets for Indonesia, Saudi business delegation, Textile, textile products

Indonesia and Saudi Arabia see a lot of potential for expansion, especially Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest potential markets for Indonesia in the Middle East. Hence the two countries has agreed to double their bilateral trade value by 2020.

Trade Ministry expert for trade services Arlinda Imbang Jaya said that the total trade between Indonesia and Saudi Arabia amounted to US$8.5 billion in 2015. Indonesian exports to Saudi Arabia amounted to $3.35 billion in 2015, while imports were worth $5.14 billion.

Related Keywords: connect with jute business, create a fund for improvement of jute, Draft law of new jute bill, empower to collect data, jute products, manufactured from jute fibre, placed in parliament for endorsement, purchase, purchase and sale of any special product, replacing Bangladesh Fifty four year old jute law, sale, seek details of production, stock

Minister of State Mirza Azam placed the draft law of new Jute Bill 2016 in parliament for endorsement and replacing Bangladesh’s 54 year old jute law on behalf of Minister of Textiles and Jute Imazuddin Pramanik on Wednesday.

It has been referred to the house committee on the textile and jute ministry for review.

The government will be able to create a fund for the improvement of jute and jute products according to the new proposed law.

The new proposed law will empower government to collect data on the purchase and sale of any special product manufactured from jute fibre.

Related Keywords: empowered about forty cotton farmers, financed by United Kingdom, improve their corp, International Trade Centre, organized programme, part of project funded by EU, to help them process cotton into lint, with value addition skill, yarn and potentially artisanal products

A programme was organized by the International Trade Centre (ITC), as part of a project funded by the European Union and financed by the United Kingdom that empowered about 40 cotton farmers with value addition skills to improve their crop through a comprehensive farmer-training programme in Mumbwa.

The participants, mostly women, acquired life skills to help them process cotton into lint, yarn and potentially artisanal products.

Over 300,000 small-scale cotton farmers in Eastern, Muchinga, Central, Lusaka and Southern provinces earn income for their livelihoods from the crop.

Related Keywords: China worlds top cotton buyer, fall to five year low, import limitations, International cotton advisory committee, off load huge cotton reserves, policy of Chinese government auctions, production in China to fall, set to pare its imports to the minimum levels, shrink cotton stocks

The International Cotton Advisory Committee forecast that the policy of Chinese government auctions to off load its huge cotton reserves, and import limitations, will shrink Chinese cotton stocks by 7% in 2015-16, and a further 10% in 2016-17. Chinese cotton stocks will fall to a five-year low.

The sharp decline in Chinese imports, and falling domestic production, will help draw down stocks even as Chinese demand falls.

According to the US Department of Agriculture forecast China's cotton stocks to fall by 6 percent in 2015-16, to 13.9m tones.

Related Keywords: drastically reduces shrinking of fabric, existing textile manufacturing process, improve fibre strength and colour enhancements of textiles, improve quality of textile processes, Institute for Plasma Research, introducing in line plasma treatment facility, Plasma improves the fibre quality, signs MoU with MANTRA, Surat argest textile hubs

Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) signed an MoU with Man Made Textile Research Association (MANTRA) on Tuesday for introducing in-line plasma treatment facility in the existing textile manufacturing process to improve that quality of textile processes in the country’s largest textile hubs - Surat.

MANTRA is a research organisation for fulfilling quality control needs of a growing textile industry in Surat and in South Gujarat.