Manufacturing

Jute finally gets a formal collective identity in India with an assurance on origin and quality for traditional jute and jute-diversified products with launch of the Jute Mark India logo.

The textiles-fashion industry is living in a bubble where nature does not exist and all that babble about sustainability is just that. That's the impression one gets after reading between the lines of the annual Materials Benchmark of nonprofit Textile Exchange. Like always, there’s been a lot of progress, but a lot also remains to be done.

There’s an urgent need for Ethiopia to yank off from a never-ending cycle of low productivity and high labour turnover if the country wants to remain an attractive location for the global textile industry in spite of rising labour costs.

The unique opportunity presented by the availability of high-quality local fibres, the rich array of handwoven, hand-processed or industrial textiles produced on the continent, and the strength of the demand for African designs means that the sector is ripe for new investments and policies. Unless, the West reads “ripe for investment” as “ripe for plunder.”

The Sewn Products Equipment & Suppliers of the Americas (SPESA) played host to the 38th World Fashion Convention of the International Apparel Federation (IAF). The President of the SPESA, Michael McDonald, takes time out to tell texfash.com how the event went by, and the context in which it was held in the US.

The just-concluded 38th World Fashion Convention at Philadelphia delved deep into issues plaguing the textile-apparel-fashion industry. Matthijs Crietee, Secretary-General, International Apparel Federation (IAF), sheds light on the roadmap chalked out to help industry achieve its Net Zero goals.

As one of the biggest events to be held in Latin America, PI Apparel Medellin this year is significant both for the region itself as well as the overall global context in which it is set to kick off on Wednesday. Two people in the thick and thin of things set the tone: Carmen Caballero, President of ProColombia, and Monica Afonso, Conference Producer at PI Apparel.

About a decade or so ago, Colombian textile giant Fabricato was fast receding into oblivion and irrelevance, and many doubted if the company could live to see its centenary in 2020. But Fabricato turned it all around. Sales Director Giorgio Lignarolo sheds sheds more light on how Fabricato did it.

Spain's retailing giant Inditex and the International Apparel Federation (IAF) have signed an agreement that aims to promote a more respectful industry for people and planet by boosting circularity, traceability and worker wellbeing.

US apparel-fashion importers are increasingly diversifying their sourcing base following the deteriorating US-China bilateral relationship and there’s mounting concern at the uncertain macroeconomic outlook, according to the just-released Benchmarking Survey by the United States Fashion Industry Association.