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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Zimbabwe’s textile industry targets 35,000 jobs in 5 yrs

Zimbabwe's textile industry: The Zimbabwe Clothing Manufacturers’ Association (ZCMA) plans to employ 35,000 people in the next five years, largely because of the sector’s...

Turkey’s Eurotay to open a textile factory in Serbia

Turkish textile firm Eurotay, a member of the Tai Group, is building a manufacturing plant spanning 30,000 square metres in Serbia’s Kraljevo that will...

Kenyan Farmers to Grow Bt Cotton Commercially Starting

Kenyan farmers will start commercially growing transgenic Bt cotton from next April after waiting for nearly two decades. The development is likely to spur...

Kordsa bags Industry 4.0 award in textile category

Kordsa has been named as one of the global 100 enterprises and granted the Industry 4.0 award in the textile category, according to a...

Dubai Set to Host International Apparel and Textile Fair

International Apparel and Textile Fair (IATF), the industry’s biggest showcase platform in the MENA region and the sourcing hub for fabrics, textile, apparels and...

Garments and textile mark 24% of Jordan’s exports

Deputy Chairman of the Syndicate of Garments and Textile Factory Owners in Jordan, Ihab Qadri, said that the sector marks about 24% of the...

Ghana Forms Textile Import Management Body

The Government of Ghana recently constituted a textile import management body to oversee textile imports, according to trade and industry minister Alan Kyerematen. Vetting...

1st specialized free zone for textile industry in Egypt

The world’s first specialized free zone for the textile industry is under construction in Egypt’s Minya Governorate, the chief executive officer of the General...

13th HomeDeco Fair Kazakhstan

13th Homedeco KAZAKHSTAN The 13th International Exhibition for Home Textile, Interior Design and Houseware Homedeco Kazakhstan will take place between 26-29 March, 2019 at Atakent Exhibition Centre...

Morocco’s Exports to Spain up 6.7 % in First Seven Months of 2018

Morocco’s exports to Spain increased by 6.7% in the first seven months of 2018 compared with the same period last year, the EU statistics...
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