Middle East and Africa
Exhibition News
Pakistan to Participate in AllFashion Sourcing Cape Town 2025
Pakistan will be joining the prestigious AllFashion Sourcing Cape Town event, scheduled for July 8–10, 2025. Known as the premier sourcing event on the African continent, AllFashion Sourcing brings...
Middle East and Africa
Türkiye’s Textile Employment Drops Below 1 Million Amid Industry Struggles
Türkiye’s textile and apparel industry has seen a sharp decline in employment, dropping below the 1 million mark...
Economy News
UAE and Central African Republic CEPA to Boost Trade Beyond AED3.67 Billion
The UAE and the Central African Republic (CAR) have signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) aimed at...
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Syria: A New Battlefield for Textile Exhibition Organizers!
Syria has always been considered one of the most important countries in the Middle East. Even before the...
Garment & Fashion
Sun Tekstil’s AI Investment Set to Transform the Fashion Industry
Sun Tekstil has taken a major step towards revolutionizing the fashion and textile industry with a groundbreaking investment...
Indonesia eyeing Middle East for textile export
Indonesia eyeing Middle East :: Textile manufacturers in Indonesia, especially those from Central Java, are now looking at expanding their market in Middle East, according...
Fashion brands plan direct dealings with UAE’s outlet stores
UAE’s outlet stores :: Fashion brands do not want to get stuck with piles of unsold stock, especially if they are a season or...
Egypt net foreign reserves rise to $42.524b after Eurobond sale
Egypt net foreign reserves :: Egypt’s foreign reserves rose to $42.524 billion (Dh156 billion) at the end of February from $38.209 billion at the...
The UAE’s non-oil private sector growth eases in February
The UAE’s non-oil private sector growth slowed in February as indicated by the Emirates NBD Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) which declined to 55.1 in...
Inflation rises to 4.7% following VAT roll-out
Inflation in Abu Dhabi rose to 4.7 per cent in January 2018, the highest rate in years, following the implementation of Value-Added Tax (VAT)...
SABIC head re-elected as GPCA Chairman
SABIC head re-elected :: The Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA) announced on Tuesday the re-election of Yousuf Al Benyan as its chairman for...
ADNOC, OCP ink deal to supply sulphur to Morocco
The Abu Dhabi National oil Company (ADNOC) and Morocco’s OCP Group have signed a long-term sales deal for ADNOC to supply OCP with granulated...
Saudi Aramco company shipyard venture appoints CEO
Saudi Aramco and a number of partners have appointed Fathi K. Al Saleem as CEO of a joint venture to build a shipyard on...
New $1bn Abu Dhabi chemicals facility to boost manufacturing
The new facility will supply raw material for some of the UAE's largest industrial firms
Shaheen Chem Investment, owned by investors from the United Arab...
Maroc in Mode – How Morocco Wants to Push Its Textile Industry
One billion of pieces produced per year by 175,000 employees (30% of all industrial jobs nationwide) in 1,600 local companies, 31.4 billion Moroccan Dirham...