Egypt

In a move to solidify its position as a key player in the global textile and apparel market, Egypt has launched a comprehensive plan to address the existing challenges by establishing two integrated textile cities designed to encompass the entire textile production process, from spinning and weaving to dyeing and garment manufacturing.

The lesson of the current US tariffs crisis roiling the trade world is this: you cannot keep relying on one country as your export destination. From now on it has to be ‘US Plus One’.

Egypt's Green Fashion startup that empowers women in slums with a livelihood as they help mitigate environmental destruction is being showcased at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), now under way at the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Haelixa has been marking Egyptian cotton fabrics for premium shirts with a unique DNA marker. This makes the raw material traceable from the source to the finished textile product. A texfash.com report.

Textile worker unions have launched a campaign in five countries for social protection. One of the root causes of garment workers’ dire situation is that many producing countries have inadequate or non-existent systems for social protection.

There's a new flame-retardant yarn from Egyptian Giza cotton.