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Trendtex to invest in Gornji Milanovac
Production is planned to restart at the former Rudnik textile plant in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia, by the end of April with 300 workers employed.
World Bank urged to suspend loans to Uzbekistan
Human rights advocates have petitioned the World Bank, calling on it to suspend payments to the Uzbek government until it stops the use of forced...
Takata to sell automotive interiors division
Takata, the embattled Japanese manufacturer of rupture-prone airbags, has put its automotive interiors division up for sale in a move to improve the company’s balance...
Testing the permeability of aerospace fabrics
Versaperm has developed a next-generation solution to test the permeability of aerospace fabrics.
Automotive seating innovations discussed
Innovative inkjet printing for car seat covers has been introduced by Johnson Controls.
Fossil-free model car with roof made of carbon fibre
Researchers from Innventia, Swerea and KTH Royal Institute of Technology have developed a model car to demonstrate that lightweight, fuel-efficient cars of the future can...
H Dawson acquires controlling stake of Axminster Carpets
H Dawson Wool, an international wool merchant based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK, has acquired a controlling equity stake in Axminster Carpets, which has operated...
Indorama Synthetics opens ninth textile plant in Indonesia
Indorama Synthetics, Indonesia’s biggest producer of textile raw materials, has started production at a US$40m spinning mill facility in Purwakarta, West Java says the country’s...
Sritex signs deal to supply uniforms to Cambodia
Indonesian firm Sri Rejeki (Sritex) has signed a US$50m deal with Cambodia’s Ministry of Interior to supply the country’s police and armed forces with new...
Malaysian kenaf fibre in high demand in China and Thailand
National Kenaf and Tobacco Board chairman Datuk Mohd Adhan Kechik said that, during the October 2014 – December 2015 period, Malaysia exported 760 tonnes of...
Lingerie producer to open third plant in Myanmar
Bogart Lingerie is set to open its third plant in Myanmar in June, three years after becoming the first international lingerie manufacturer to set up...
Italian textile machine builders on show at Saigontex
Twelve Italian machinery manufacturers will be exhibiting at Saigontex in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from 30 March to 2 April.
H&M bans Turkmenistan cotton from supply chain
Swedish multinational retail clothing supplier H&M has put a ban on cotton from Turkmenistan and Syria since December owing to underage workers involved in cotton...
Polish and Czech clothing workers in poverty wages claim
Low wages, forced and often unpaid overtime, and harmful working environments are some of the problems faced by clothing workers in Poland and the Czech...
Russian government approves new state programme for textiles
The Russian government has approved a new state programme for the development of the national textile and light industry for 2016.
Second life for old clothing in Bulgaria
A German entrepreneur has received funding of almost BGN2m (US$1. 1m) for a sorting centre for used textiles near Plovdiv, Bulgaria.