Manufacturing

Europe's leading fabric trade show—Munich Fabric Start—will showcase trends for Autumn/Winter 24/25 through 1,100 collections which will reflect the production market across fashion categories.

In a bid to help transition the country to a circular economy by 2030 and Net Zero by 2050, Australia is funding a consortium to develop Seamless, a National Clothing Product Stewardship Scheme that would act across the value chain, from clothing design to use, reuse, collection, and recycling.

Although the garment industry in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan remains politically and economically important, highlighted as a “high-value industry” in the Economic Modernization Vision of the country, the sector is going through increased uncertainty.

A Robotics Living Lab (RoLL) being developed by Manchester Fashion Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University, promises new research into highly responsive sustainable approaches for UK garment manufacturers.

Can market forces help prevent tragedies such as Rana Plaza? Not really, say Professors Vinod Singhal and Brian Jacobs as they explain that in terms of sourcing strategy, most firms are going to continue to search for the lowest costs even as the larger idea of responsible sourcing has gained traction following an increase in activists and watchdogs as also the ubiquity of 24/7 news and social media.  

The times they are a changing and Bangladesh continues to adopt advanced apparel manufacturing technology. Undoubtedly, if this country wishes to remain competitive at this critical juncture of its journey, the apparel sector needs to take the lead in innovation, exhorts Abdullah Hil Rakib, Director of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association.

In early February, southern Türkiye and northern Syria were devasted by a series of earthquakes, with the most severe reaching 7.8 on the Richter scale. Over 1,600 garment and close to 1,300 textile companies operate in the 11 affected provinces, with a third of the country's apparel and textile workers employed here. As Türkiye's textiles-apparel industry steps out of the ruins, it is in dire need of business.

The union government on Friday announced that the seven mega textile parks under the ₹44,450 million -PM Mega Integrated Textile Region and Apparel (PM MITRA) scheme will be set up in Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

Two Kenyan textile manufacturers have received big-ticket investments with the aim to create jobs and improve lives through investing in sustainable businesses.

A collaborative system that reintegrates manufacturing into product and process development is critical to help the global textile industry emerge as a better steward of our planet, our people, and our products. And, there are many small and incremental steps that can be taken without major capital investments to improve safety and reduce the negative environmental impacts of existing textile manufacturing and wet processing facilities.