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The ongoing political unrest in Bangladesh has proved a blessing for Pakistan’s clothing and textile sector, enabling many Pakistani exporters to secure international orders ahead of Christmas most by their Bangladeshi competitors. However, weaknesses in the Pakistani industry have prevented it from taking full advantage.…

As intensifying international trade frictions highlight the need for Chinese textile companies to spread their risk by investing in production capacity within diverse global markets, Chinese textile companies are indeed expanding their global footprint. That includes downstream as well as upstream segments.…

Bangladesh’s clothing and textile manufacturers have called on the country’s incoming interim government to protect their factories, as violence still wracks the country following the downfall of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

She fled the country on Monday (August 5) after resigning amidst cascading political demonstrations against an earlier brutal crackdown on protesters upset about government job quotas.…

Pakistan’s Punjab province government is set to establish its first ‘plug and play’ garment city with an estimated cost of Pakistan Rupees PKR3 billion (USD10.78 million) in the industrial zone of Sheikhupura, 38 kilometres north-west of Lahore. All facilities and infrastructure needed by clothing manufacturers will be provided.…

While Bangladesh garment factories are reopening after days of student unrest has subsided, industry leaders have express concern that the chaos has undermined their country’s reputation as a reliable outsourcer.

The government only suppressed the protests by students over job quotas for the descendants of veterans from the country’s 1971 liberation war through a violent police crackdown, shutting down the internet and a curfew.…

With Vietnam named the top exporter to the United States of products covered by the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in 2023, Vietnamese garment manufacturers that use undeclared Chinese cotton inputs are now risking being caught by isotopic testing. These can link cotton to specific geographic areas by analysing the concentration of stable elements like carbon and hydrogen present in both the crop and the environment in which it has been grown.…

As the expression goes, ‘it’s lonely at the top’. It is a statement oft repeated by university leaders fresh to the job as they navigate their new role in management. Newly minted leaders have, however, found reassurance that they are not alone in challenges they face when interacting with contemporaries at the regular International Association of University Presidents’ (IAUP) seminar on leadership development for new presidents and emerging leaders.…

Bio-based oils and fats producers have an increasing business opportunity to supply feedstock to a booming bioplastics industry. While governments are proactively encouraging biodegradable bioplastics, following the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs) policy of reducing standard plastics pollution (1), this green industry is still nascent.…

Modern technologies are paving the way for rapid advances in textile sector process efficiencies, where innovative solutions are cutting the amount of time, energy, labour and materials that typically go into garment production.

While many new systems are being rapidly adopted by an industry eager to reduce friction and boost margins, some of the most revolutionary solutions are still on the cusp of being widely adopted.…

Attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea by the Houthi Islamic militant group from Yemen are creating significant concerns for the European chemical industry, including makers of dyes and textile finishing chemicals in Germany.

Over the past two months, trade volumes through the Suez Canal have dropped by 42%, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).…