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Related Keywords: exploit ASEAN market, fully vertical integrated supply chain, Garment and textile industries, global apparel trade, improve competitiveness, imprt fabric, production hub, strengthen cooperation, TGMA, Thailand and Vietnam, TPP, yarn export

Thailand and Vietnam garment and textile industries to improve competitiveness and exploit the ASEAN market need to strengthen co-operation. Establishing fully vertical integrated-supply chain between Thailand and Vietnam would be one of the big steps toward granting and sustaining competitiveness.

Nguyen Van Tuan, deputy general secretary of the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association, said that in recent years Vietnam has emerged as a production hub for garment and textile products. However, the industry has had to import up to 85% of materials needed for production.

Related Keywords: by Anita Jain of Common Strands, Dassel History Center, Deep Roots, international fiber arts nonprofit organization, new fiber and textile art exhibit, old tradition, tribute to brave Nordic souls, works from American fiber artists

Deep Roots, the new fiber and textile art exhibit arranged by Anita Jain of Common Strands, an international fiber arts nonprofit organization. The event will open on Saturday, March 28 from 3 to 5pm at the Dassel History Center, 901 First St. N.

Approximately 50 works from 23 American fiber artists whose roots are in the Nordic countries will be exhibited. Their art reflects their deep rooted feelings for the old traditions and the appreciation and awe for their forefathers’ strength and sacrifices it took to start a new live so very far from home, Jain said.

Related Keywords: contracts in eight factories, European customers, expansion of facilities, for global brands, for third factory, ground breaking ceremony, Hey Tekstil, production of textile, ready wear clothing, textile manufacturing plant, well known for its quality

Hey Tekstil’s factory in the southeastern Anatolian city of Batman well known for its quality among the company’s European customers has contracts in eight factories located in İstanbul, Çankırı, Nevşehir, Kastamonu and Batman for the production of textiles and ready-wear clothing for global brands.

The company currently owns and runs a textile manufacturing plant in this southeastern Anatolian city in partnership with a local company. The extension was constructed on an 11,000 square-meter block of land, and it will commence production in August.

Related Keywords: across global textile value chain, business security, expansion of textile sustainability, fair trade, launched organic cotton sustainability tool, looks at impacts of organic cotton, organic cotton producers, organic farmers, Textile Exchange

Textile Exchange a non-profit organization committed to the responsible expansion of textile sustainability across the global textile value chain has launched its own Organic Cotton Sustainability Assessment Tool (OC-SAT), which looks at the impacts of organic cotton based on the results of questionnaires sent to organic cotton producers.

Related Keywords: bring out strategy paper, Commerce Ministry, competitiveness on downward trend, cotton exports, incentive for textile sector, Indian textile exports, National Textiles Policy, process of rolling out, Textile Ministry, to enhance textile export

India’s textiles exports competitiveness is on downward trend even countries like Sri Lanka and Turkey are more competitive in the sector. The Commerce Ministry is considering bringing out its own strategy paper for the sector to enhance competitiveness of textile exports.

Textiles Ministry, too, is in the process of rolling out a National Textiles Policy, which aims to achieve USD 300 billion exports by 2024-25 and envisages creation of additional 35 million jobs.

Related Keywords: equipped with improved process intelligence, great energy efficiency, increase productivity, leading textile industry group, new Autoconer 6, Saurer, with powerful features

Saurer, a leading textile industry group mainly specializing in machinery and components for yarn processing this time has come up with new Autoconer 6 with some powerful features such as a noticeable increase in productivity and great energy efficiency, raising the bar for high-yield efficiency in the winding process and equipped with improved process intelligence, according to the manufacturer.

On 20 March 2015, the textile industry stalwarts O P Lohia, Chairman and Managing Director of Indo Rama Synthetics (India) Ltd. and Madhu Sudhan Bhageria – Vice Chairman & Managing Director of Filatex India Ltd. met Santosh Kumar Gangwar, minister of state (Independent Charge) for Textiles and Sanjay Kumar Panda, Secretary – Textiles at Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi. They were also accompanied by a delegation from textile industry to apprise the minister of the current as well as post budget scenario of the textile industry.

Related Keywords: creative models and healthy textiles, distinguished competitve ability, in many countries, known brand in Arab world, manufacturing baby clothes, rank first place, Syrian baby and children clothes

Syrian baby and children’s clothes rank the first place in many countries such as Algeria and Gulf states. Syria has a distinguished competitive ability in manufacturing baby and children’s clothes due to which it became a known brand at baby clothes’ markets in the Arab world.

Syrian cotton clothes due to their creative models and healthy textiles are preferable more than Turkish and European ones at the global markets.

Related Keywords: Apparel and Garment Unit, boost textile industry, demand for garment, eight northeastern states, export, Indian government, National Building Constructions Corp, readymade garment manufacturing units, Tripura handloom and handicrafts

The Indian government plans to set up ready-made garment manufacturing units in each of the eight northeastern states to boost the textile industry in and export of ready made garments from the region, which would also boost local employment, particularly for women. The government-run National Building Constructions Corp would set up the units in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram, Sikkim and Tripura.

Related Keywords: chemical, cleaner production, cut factory cost, energy, Garment manufacturer Radnik, improve capacity of supply chain, Indian textile and garment suppliers, partnership with, reduce environmental impact, save water, Sida, SIWI, SWAR, Swedish retail brand, unique project

Swedish retail brands Indiska, KappAhl and Lindex in partnership with more than 40 Indian textile and garment suppliers have decided to reduce the environmental impact and improved capacity of supply chains through a unique project for cleaner production.

The new project has saved 284 million litres of water and 402 tonnes of chemicals annually and is now being scaled up to include several Indian states and four other countries in the world. It involves more than 120 suppliers globally.