JAPAN KNITWEAR HUB WAKAYAMA BUILDS ON TRADITION WITH INNOVATIVE PRACTICE AND NEW TECH
August 2nd, 2020
Innovation is a key to success in the knitwear sector, but when a manufacturing hub combines centuries-old traditions of knitted product production with new technology and ideas, that is a winning combination. This is the strength of Japan's Wakayama knitwear manufacturing centre, located south of Osaka, on the western coast of the Kii Peninsula. It has one of Japan’s oldest, yet cutting-edge, knitting and knitting-related industries, currently with an annual collective turnover exceeding Japanese Yen JPY100 billion JPY (USD943.6 million), according to the ...
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