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Japan's biggest and most professional clothing and textiles fair, the 26th edition of AFF-Tokyo 2015 which gathers together the country’s largest selection of ready-made garments, accessories, home-textiles, fabrics and auxiliary material to be held from October 21-23 at Sunshine City Culture Center.

The AFF expo was founded in 2003, the show is held once every spring in Osaka and once every autumn in Tokyo. The event attracts 300-400 exhibitors from China, Japan, Korea and their factories in Burma, Bangladesh, India and Cambodia.

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Varanasi, which is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency, has plenty of weavers who are banking on government support to survive in the mass-production market economy. Their goods, which are individually designed, take time to be made, while cheaper textiles versions pose a threat to their livelihood.

Thus, the country’s leading fashion designers will set up units and tie up with Varanasi weavers to promote their products nationally and internationally.

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The Government had always been keen in the promotion of handloom textile. As one of the major steps regarding the same, a discussion on revival of handloom, with particular focus on increasing earning of handloom weavers, was held according to the statement of the Textile Ministry.

The meeting of the panel comprising stakeholders from government, industry and members of the civil society was organized on May 17 by the office of Development Commissioner (Handlooms), Ministry of Textiles.

Related Keywords: Apparel and Garment making centre, Chief Minister of Assam, East Region Textile Promotion Scheme, foundation stone laid, fully funded of Government of India, Geotechnical textile project, provide employment, Tarun Gogoi, Union Minister of state for Textiles

The foundation stone for an Apparel and Garment Making Centre at Guwahati was laid by Tarun Gogoi, Chief Minister of Assam and Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Union Minister of State for Textiles on Tuesday. Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, Dr. S. K. Panda present at the occasion said that the garment making Centre will provide employment to the youths of Assam. The project will be completed in three months by M/s. NBCC; the total cost involved in the project will be to the tune of Rs. 18 crore which will be fully funded by Government of India.

Related Keywords: collaboration, delegation of Exim Bank, Dong Nai province, Exim Bank of India, Indian businessmen, industrial parks, invite investment, textile and dyeing factory

Đồng Nai, a province in the Southeast region of Vietnam, located east and northeast of Ho Chi Minh City with a keen view to invite investments to its industrial parks seeks collaborations with India’s Exim Bank.

A delegation from the Export and Import Bank of India (EXIMBANK) paid a fact-finding tour to the southern province of Đồng Nai last week to seek partnership opportunities.

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Shera Hoisery Pvt Ltd., a company who started its journey in 1969 by taking up job works, now an integrated producer of hosiery items with hosiery units in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu. It has its own range of Hosiery and Innerwear products under brand name of `SHERA’. The Company wishes to set up production unit in the state of Bihar, seeing the present scenario in Bihar which provides opportunities for industrialist.

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Shima Seiki, computerized flat knitting machine manufacturer this June alongside its US subsidiary Shima Seiki U.S.A. Inc., to display its latest technological contributions to the field of technical textiles at the Techtextil North America exhibition in Houston, Texas.

Shima Seiki’s latest computerized knitting machine including the SRY123LP will be on display that features loop presser beds mounted atop conventional needle beds, providing improved control over pressdown of individual loops.

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Bekaert Textiles, one of the technology leaders in the development and production of knitted mattress and bed textiles, from Gamma Holding has been taken over by Franz Haniel & Cie, GmbH (Haniel), a German family equity company. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

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Foreign textile and garment firms to enjoy a zero percent import tax rate under the commitments of free trade agreements (FTA) such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the EU-Vietnam FTA, and the South Korea-Vietnam FTA are moving is full swing with plans to build production facilities in ahead of FTAs in Vietnam.

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Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises (FISME) jointly with the SME Foundation of Bangladesh, an autonomous organization of the Government of Bangladesh engaged in development of MSME sector conducted a workshop to promote Regional Value Chain of Textiles within SAARC Countries in Dhaka recently.