Middle East and Africa

Egypt Advances Textile Sector Modernisation With Greater Private Sector Role

Egypt is moving forward with plans to modernise its state-owned cotton, spinning, weaving and garment industry, with the government seeking greater private sector participation in the management and operation...

Egypt’s Home Textile Industry Gains Momentum: Interview with Towelie

By: Behnam Ghasemi | Editor-in-Chief, Kohan Textile Journal On-location coverage at Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics Executive Summary At Intertextile Shanghai, the...

Kenya’s Apparel Industry Gains Trade Certainty as US Senate Backs AGOA Extension to 2028

Kenya’s textile and apparel industry is set to gain greater trade certainty following the US Senate’s approval of...

Climate Change Puts Africa’s Cotton and Textile Ambitions Under Pressure

Africa’s ambitions to expand its textile and apparel manufacturing industry are becoming increasingly linked to a challenge that...

Nigeria’s Textile Imports Surge as Northern Cotton Industry Struggles to Recover

Nigeria’s textile industry is facing mounting pressure as imported fabrics from China, India and Pakistan continue to strengthen...

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“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...

Shree Modern Textiles to develop free trade zone in Uganda

The Uganda Free Zones Authority (UFZA) recently issued two developer’s licenses to BlockChain Technologies (U) Limited and Shree Modern Textiles Ltd to develop free...

ASFW 2019 themed as ‘Sustainable Fashion for World Market’

The Africa Sourcing and Fashion Week (ASFW) will open its doors to the entire cotton, textile, apparel and fashion industry from November 9-12 at...
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