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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Nigeria Losing Revenue Due to Influx of Cheap Textiles

Nigeria’s cumulative value of textiles and garments imported or smuggled into the country is worth $4.2 billion, according to minister of state for industry,...

Saudi Arabia Updates Textile Technical Regulations

Saudi Arabia has updated technical regulations for textile products which will be implemented on February 23, 2019. Issued by the Saudi Standards, Metrology and...

Continental Free Trade Area to Boost e-com in Africa

Opportunities abound for Africa to engage in and benefit from e-commerce and the digital economy as the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) comes...

Ethiopia’s Textile-Garment park inaugurated in Jimma

Ethiopia's Textile park :: President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, President Ismail Omar of Djibouti and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed recently inaugurated an Ethiopia's Textile-Garment...

Armenian Apparel , Leather Products Exported to EU around 40%

The annual exports of Armenian textile, apparel, leather products and shoes grew by 35-43 per cent over the past two years, with more than...

EVTEKS is hosting 150.000 visitors from five continents

Istanbul International Home Textile Exhibition (EVTEKS), one of the world's two largest home textile exhibitions, opened its doors for the 24th time. 150.000 national...

Chinese textile unit in Jordan launched

Chinese textile unit in Jordan :: Jordanian Prime Minister Omar Razzaz recently laid the foundation stone for a Chinese textile factory that will create hundreds of...

Lectra Launches ‘Fashion on Demand’ Based on Industry 4.0

Lectra has launched its ‘Fashion On Demand’ offer, empowering industry players to uncover business opportunities brought about by the strong demand for personalisation in...

How Egypt Became Hot Spot for Chinese Firms in Wake of US Trade War

By:Paul Cochrane Cheap labour, US-China tensions and controversial tax-free access to the US market increasingly draw garment manufacturers and buyers to Egypt The real winner of...

Kordsa joins EU’s Horizon 2020 R&D Project

Kordsa, global player in tire, construction reinforcement, and composite technologies headquartered in Turkey, has joined a new project under the European Union’s R&D and...
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