CHINESE INVESTMENT IN AFRICAN TEXTILE FINISHING IS UNEVEN AND WILL BUILD ON CLOTHING INITIATIVES
July 4th, 2014
Chinese investment in sub-Saharan Africa’s textile processing sector is creating new capacity for finishing, but progress is uneven. Whilst China’s growing presence in the region is far from universally popular, industry figures consulted by International Dyer across the continent were generally positive about the trend.The Horn of Africa’s Ethiopia is a case in point. Here, on one of Africa’s growth nodes for the textile sector, Chinese companies are establishing textile-finishing capacity, to take advantage of USA’s African Growth and Opportunity Act ...
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