Middle East and Africa

Kenya Exports More Apparel to the US but Earns Less, Raising Concerns for Textile Industry

Kenya’s textile and apparel industry achieved a record export volume to the United States in 2025, but declining revenues have exposed growing structural challenges within one of Africa’s most...

Egypt Strengthens Textile Manufacturing Ambitions with New Turkish-Backed Garment Factory

Egypt has taken another major step toward becoming a leading textile and apparel manufacturing hub with the inauguration...

Turkish Investor Highlights Tunisia’s Role as Gateway to European and African Markets

Tunisia is increasingly positioning itself as a strategic manufacturing and logistics hub for Turkish companies seeking access to...

Xetma: Sustainable Surface Finishing Technologies for a Changing Textile Industry

Interview with Karsten Heinz, Director Sales & Marketing, Xetma Vollenweider GmbH During ITM 2026 in Istanbul, Behnam Ghasemi, Editor-in-Chief...

China Plans $2 Billion Carbon-Neutral Textile Industrial City in Egypt

China is set to make one of its largest industrial investments in the Middle East and Africa’s textile...

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Turkish firm starts exporting heating fabrics

Heating fabrics :::: A Turkish entrepreneur is now exporting a heating fabric, developed from 100% local sources, for €20 ($22) a square meter, said executives...

EU–Turkey Partnership Strengthened at 2019 Euratex Convention

European and Turkish entrepreneurs, International experts, designers and policy makers came together in Istanbul to discuss current and future scenarios in the textile and...

Turkish Clothes’ Prices to Soar 20 Percent in Jordan

The trade agreement between Jordan and Turkey was ongoing for eight years from 2011 to 2018, until Jordan decided to suspend the agreement because...

Great ideas turn into technology at ITM 2020

The ITM 2020 trade fair, which will be held from 2-6 June, will be organised by Teknik Fairs and Tüyap Tüm Fuarcilik Yapim, in...

YKK collaborates with Ubuntu Life on New Line of Bags

YKK has teamed up with Ubuntu Life on its Fall 2019 line of bags handmade by its ‘Maker Mums’ in Maai Mahiu region of...

CBN, Nigerian governors agree to develop agri sector

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and governors of 36 Nigerian states recently agreed to pool resources to develop their agricultural potential and generate...

Kenya – Govt identifies alternative land for Mountex Textile Industries

The government has identified alternative land for setting up the revival factory of the Mountex Textile Industries in Nanyuki town. Trade and Industrialization Cabinet Secretary...

Iran Global Forerunner in Nanotechnology: VP

Iran’s Vice-President for Science and Technology says the country is a pioneer in the field of nano-sciences, and since five years ago, serious focus...

EGYPT ADOPTS PLAN TO IMPROVE COTTON, TEXTILE INDUSTRIES

Egypt adopts plan to improve cotton, textile industries Egypt is adopting an integrated plan to improve the cotton and textile industries by learning from abroad,...

EGYPTIAN PM DIRECTED TO CONTINUE UPGRADING TEXTILE SECTOR

Egyptian PM directed to continue upgrading textile sector President Abdel Fattah al- Sisi in a recent meeting with Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli and minister of...
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