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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Turkish textile-garment firms to invest in Ghana

Following a series of sideline meetings of the Turkey-Africa Economic and Business Forum between a Ghanaian delegation and Turkish investors, some textile-garment manufacturing giants...

Egypt’s long-staple cotton faces threat of going unsold

There is a threat of Egyptian cotton going unsold despite 2 million metric quintals of high quality crops. Based on traders’ optimism, the country...

US sanctions on Iran Hit Major Banks, Shipping Companies

The tough US sanctions against Iran announced this month, especially targeting the oil, banking and shipping sectors, have been dubbed by analysts as the...

Record Cotton Production To Drive West Africa Exports

Cotton exports from West Africa for 2018-19 are projected to surpass last year’s record, driven by record production, according to the US department of...

Nigeria Introduces Transgenic Cotton Varieties

Nigeria recently introduced genetically-modified cotton varieties in the country to boost the textile industry. The country’s minister of science and technology Ogbonnaya Onu said...

Intertex Tunisia Exhibition To Be Held In April 2019

The Intertex Tunisia exhibition will be organised between 4-6 April 2019 in Sousse International Fairground in Tunisia. The event is an international platform where...

TUNISIA’S TEXTILE AND CLOTHING EXPORTS UP 11 PER CENT

For the first five months of 2017 Tunisia’s exports of the textile and clothing industries sector rose 11 per cent. The same applies to...

Nigeria, China sign $2 bn MoU on cotton industry

Nigeria has signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese firm Shandong Ruyi International Fashion Industry for an investment of $2 billion in Katsina, Kano,...

Saudi Aramco signs agreement with Zhejiang Petrochemical

Saudi Aramco recently signed an agreement with the Chinese province of Zhejiang during the second International Petroleum and Natural Gas Enterprises Conference (IPEC) at...

Italian textile factory inaugurated in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Italian fashion company ITACA recently inaugurated a $15-million textile factory at Ashegodain of Tigray state in Ethiopia. The factory has already started exporting clothes...
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