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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Indian Govt Approves Special Package for Leather, Footwear

The Union Cabinet chaired by PM Narendra Modi has approved a special package for employment generation in leather and footwear sector. The package involves implementation...

Pakistan’s textile sector: Policy grievances marked 2017

Grievances against government policies and regulations from all quarters of the textile industry and demands for amendments marked the year in Pakistan despite former...

Bt cotton seeds effective, MMBL writes to Indian minister

US firm Monsanto’s Indian joint venture Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (MMBL) has termed the threat by industry body National Seed Association of India (NSAI) to...

Uzbekistan exported textile worth over $1 bn in 2017

Light industry enterprises of Uzbekistan exported products worth $1.1 billion to 50 nations in 2017 and the share of value-added products exceeded 40 per...

Over 390 Indian companies showcasing at Heimtextil

More than 390 Indian companies have come together together to showcase the country’s textile expertise at the world’s biggest fair for interior textiles – Heimtextil Frankfurt this...

Turkish-Algerian JV to Set up Textile Unit in Relizane

Construction of one of Africa's largest textile production facilities, named ‘Tayal Spa’, was flagged off recently by Algeria's industry and mines minister Youcef Yousfi in the...

UAE Has the Lowest VAT Regionally and Globally

The UAE has the lowest VAT regionally and globally, compared to countries such as UK, Switzerland, Germany, Mexico, South Africa and Australia, according to...

As Jordan’s garment sector grows, activists push for better migrant workers’ rights

Jordanian labour officials have begun inspecting migrant housing, but improvements have not necessarily followed Layers of drying laundry swing on clotheslines strung atop dormitories inside...

Algeria-Turkey textile factory becomes first to export materials

Algeria’s largest textile factory announced yesterday that it is now exporting its cotton yarn products to Turkey, in the first such move. According to a...

Textile-Clothing: APII outlines reasons behind failures

“The problems of the textile and clothing sector have intensified after the revolution as a result of the flight of foreign contractors, in addition...
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