Middle East and Africa

Africa’s Textile Industry Moves Toward Sustainable and Integrated Growth

Interview with Mr. Muktar Dodo, GOTS Representative in Africa Africa’s textile and apparel industry is shifting toward greater value addition, regional integration, traceability and sustainable production. With AfCFTA, evolving global...

Tüfekçi Makine: “Air Conditioning Systems Are the Lungs of a Textile Factory”

Interview with Seçkin Yıldırımdemir, Deputy General Manager, Tüfekçi Makine San. ve Tic. A.Ş. During Egypt Stitch & Tex 2026...

Alt.FFF Launch Edition Puts Africa’s Materials, Makers and Fashion Value Chain Centre Stage in Accra

The inaugural Alternative Fashion Fabric Fair (Alt.FFF) officially launched on Saturday, 19 September 2026, bringing together industry leaders,...

CIB Provides $80 Million Financing for Eroğlu Knitting Expansion in Egypt

Commercial International Bank Egypt has signed an US$80 million financing agreement to support the expansion of Eroğlu Knitting’s...

Egypt Stitch & Tex 2026: What the Exhibition Revealed About the Future of Egypt’s Textile Industry

By Behnam Ghasemi, Editor-in-Chief, Kohan Textile Journal After spending several days at Egypt Stitch & Tex 2026 in Cairo,...

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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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