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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Italian textile machinery companies on Cairo trade mission

Representatives from 16 Italian textile machinery companies are in Cairo on Tuesday and Wednesday to participate in a convention and meetings with Egyptian companies. The...

Tunisia: 72% of companies do not plan to hire in next 12 months

The Arab Institute of Business Managers (IACE) published on Monday, September 23, 2019, its National Report on Employment. The document takes stock of the labor...

“KTM Fairs Strengthen the Region’s Position in Textiles”

Matesa Textile Spinning Factory Manager Buket Çelebi, mill manager of the Turkey’s largest 500 industrial companies by rank, answered our questions. Yarn Factory Manager of...

Swiss-Egypt Partnership To Boost Textile, Clothing Exports

Egypt’s ministry of trade and industry and Switzerland recently announced scaling up collaboration to strengthen the competitiveness of Egyptian textiles and clothing producers. The...

Iran’s East Azarbaijan province expands ties with neighbors

Iran's East Azarbaijan Province is to expand trade with neighboring countries, while its exports to Azerbaijan and Turkey have increased, East Azarbaijan Province Governor...

Iranian researchers at UMass Amherst design ‘smart pyjamas’

Two Iranian researchers at the University of Massachusetts have developed a garment - dubbed 'phyjamas' - which is essentially a standard pair of unisex...

CHINESE TEXTILE MANUFACTURER’S INVESTMENT THRIVES IN ETHIOPIA

“The reason we chose Ethiopia as our first overseas factory is that it is relatively stable throughout Africa,” Zhao Jiang, director of operations of...

Global furniture market to touch $718b by 2025

Global furniture market :: Huge demand for branded home furniture coupled with rising spending capacity of consumers on home decor products will bring the...

Tunisia Textile News

Tunisia Textile News Tunisia: 25 textile professionals take part in Premiere Vision-Paris Twenty-five Tunisian industrialists representing the main sectors of the textile-clothing sector (jeans and sportswear,...

Turkey, US discuss raising bilateral trade to $100 bn

Turkish trade minister Ruhsar Pekcan has said her country and the United States discussed steps to take bilateral trade to $100 billion from $20.6...
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