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Premium Supima cotton, musician Pharrell Williams and New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) are spearheading the drive by Japan’s Fast Retailing Co to expand its Uniqlo chain in the US market.

The Tokyo-based clothing giant has big plans for its overseas operations, particularly in the potentially lucrative North American market, a company official explained to just-style.…

MYANMAR has earned more than USD1.1 billion in 2013 from garment exports since the European Union (EU) restored GSP (Generalised System of Preferences) trading privileges to the country, the vice-chairman of the Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association, Dr U Aung Win, told just-style.…

NORDIC nonwoven companies Suominen, Ahlstrom and Fibertex are fast emerging from the post-2008 economic downturn fitter and leaner. This follows five years of cost-cutting and market re-alignment projects that included unit divestments, strategic acquisitions, and increased use of automation to reduce costs and strengthen profitability.…

Bangladesh is pushing ahead with its plan to pick contractors to build two economic zones in Chittagong district, which could further boost its fast-growing steel industry.

Muhammad Abdus Samad, secretary of the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority, told Steel First it will invite expressions of interest from contractors following a study released in February that found the sub-districts of Mirershrai and Anowara, near Chittagong “suitable” for clustering heavy industries, such as steel and shipbuilding.…

AUSTRALIA’S Lynas Corporation Ltd raised industry eyebrows late January by expressing confidence that lanthanum demand will grow robustly through to 2020, and at the same time declaring that it will not accept new orders for the light rare earth below USD15/kilogramme (kg). …

Turkey’s knitting industry performed strongly in 2013 and its senior figures are optimistic about further growth in the coming year. According to data from the Turkish Clothing Manufacturers’ Association (TCMA), exports of knitted apparel from Turkey grew by around 10% in 2013, reaching USD8.49 billion in the first 11 months of the year.…

THE WORLD’S tobacco trade is not always a straightforward affair, being held up by export and import licence applications, port dues, quality checks, corruption and unusual red tape. A new World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement on Trade Facilitation, struck last December, is designed to ease some of these difficulties.…

WHATEVER happens in Europe, an automobile manufacturing base will always be needed on the continent, Erik Jonnaert, the new secretary general of the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) told wardsauto in his first interview since taking office in October 2013. (THAT’S WHAT WE WERE TOLD – BUT WE’RE DOUBLE CHECKING THIS AND WILL ADVICE MONDAY)

“I don’t think there should be any fear that we will evolve towards a situation where all manufacturing would move out of Europe,” he said, convinced that vehicle manufacturing still had a role to play on the continent despite historically low sales and increased competition from Asia.…

A FIRST set of technical standards saying how European manufacturers should build technologies that enable vehicles to communicate with each other and with roadside communications infrastructure has been released. The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) have issued an initial set of standards for cooperative intelligence transport systems (C-ITS) – called Release 1 – following a request from the European Commission in 2009.…

The Turkish textile and clothing industry is looking to boost the number and quality of trained professionals entering the sector as it seeks to establish Turkey as a key centre for the production of high-quality, design-led textile and apparel.

Mustafa Balkuv, chairman of the Turkish Knitwear Industrialists Association (TRISAD), told WTiN.com…