Category: Emerging Markets

With support from the EU and GIZ, Smart Myanmar has developed an educational smartphone app for industrial workers in Myanmar called Shwe Job.

The traditional art of loom weaving in the Nueva Vizcaya province of the Philippines is being revived with the help of local as well as...

Students from the environment faculty of Da Nang University of Science & Technology, Vietnam, have successfully used cotton waste to grow mushrooms.

The fashion industry is gradually becoming trendy in Georgia and attracting international attention, according to Lado Giorgadze, chief executive officer of Fashion House Materia.

Romanian fashion brand Nissa is opening an 86 m2 store in Warsaw, Poland, inside the Arkadia shopping centre, this summer.

A new textile cluster is to be established in the Stavropol region in the south of Russia, according to Minister of Industry and Trade Denis...

The project to upgrade Baranovichi Cotton Production Amalgamation (BCPA) is yielding good results, according to the chairman of the Council of the Republic, Mikhail Myasnikovich.

Established 21 years ago, towel maker Aglika is investing in new factories outside Bulgaria.

Alex Fashion has opened a store selling swimwear, sportswear and other textile goods in Novi Sad, Serbia.

In a move to increase the share of speciality fibres as a proportion of total revenue, the Austria-based Lenzing Group is to build a facility...

The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia will launch its new vocational training centre this month, providing courses aimed at upgrading the skills of Cambodian workers...

A group of Vietnamese textile suppliers to VF and Target have achieved savings of US$15m in water, energy and chemical operating costs over the past...

Factories in Indonesia need automation, data analytics and eventually robotics more than ever, according to Ashish Shukla, vice president – global operations, ThreadSol.

Traditional clothes are an essential part of a nation’s culture, representing the identity of a country and its vast heritage.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security’s Investigative Agency is to prosecute five former executives of the fibre factory of the state-run PetroVietnam and a subsidiary...

Alison Hayes, one of the largest textile manufacturers in Romania, has closed its unit in Urziceni, which employed 350 seamstresses.