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Related Keywords: industrial employment, international competitiveness, Ministry of Trade and Handicrafts, project HOW TEXHA, SMEs, socio-economic development, Tunisia-Switzerland-International Trade Center, Tunisian textile and clothing industry, value chain

The textile and clothing industry in Tunisia plays a critical role in the socio-economic development of the country as it accounts for more than 40% of industrial employment. A project to support the competitiveness of the value chain of the textile and clothing sector "HOW TEXHA" was recently launched in Tunis.

With funding of 3.2 million dinars granted by Switzerland, under the first phase, this project, is the result of a tripartite collaboration (Tunisia-Switzerland-International Trade Center).

Related Keywords: contemporary designs, Habi, hablon abaca, Likhang Habi Market Fair, Museum Foundation of the Philippines, partnership with, Philippines Textile Council, piña-cotton and piña-silk, research and education, sustaining traditional textiles, tnalak, weaving tradition

Habi the Philippines Textile Council became an independent organization of its own since its 2009 partnership with the Museum Foundation of the Philippines, centers its mission on sustaining traditional textiles through research and education.

Weaving in the Philippines has a history that goes back to prehistory. It has a meager existence in today’s world, where the majority of Philippine textile products are made or sourced abroad, and the communities who carried out hand-weaving traditions due to poverty watch their cultural traditions fade.

Related Keywords: buy Uganda products, consumption of local fabrics, school uniforms, socks and t-shirts, Uganda manufactures Association, Uganda textile industry, Uganda textiles

UGANDA Manufactures Association to increase the production and consumption of local fabrics and growth of textile industry has urged all government departments and ministries to buy products manufactured in Uganda especially textiles.

According to the executive director UMA, Ssebagala Kigozi, the only way to grow the local capacity in the industrial sector is government departments like the Army, Prisons, and Police should buy these textile products from the local textile industries because they are of quality compared to those that are imported into the country.

Related Keywords: agricultural-crops, Australian textile industry, launch new wool product, malmsbury, micron, Superfine Merino, Superfine wool industry, wangaratta, wool, world's finest hand-knitting yarn

The Australian textile industry has launched a new product which is made from wool that is eighteen-and-a-half micron or finer to give a boost to the superfine wool industry.

Traditionally, superfine wool has been reserved for the world's best suits, but now a knitting yarn, using some of the nation’s best wool, has been developed.

The product is likely to bring a success for the 90-year-old Wangaratta Woollen Mills and give superfine wool growers, who have struggled with the declining value of their product, a new market.

Related Keywords: contract farming, cotton industry, high quality yarn, milling and spinning plant, new spring reels, Sino Zimbabwe cotton, venture into cotton farming, weaving plant

Sino Zimbabwe Cotton are currently in negotiations with a local company with an intention to purchase of at least 35 000 hectares of land because they are intending to venture into cotton farming. But Sino Zim is going to continue funding contract farming.

The company plans to increase cotton seed and lint output to 35 000 metric tonnes at its $17 million plant commissioned by President Robert Mugabe in December last year hence its decision to venture into cotton farming.

Related Keywords: 10 varieties of cotton, contractual obligations, cotton, Gurbanguly Berdimuhammadov, harvest of raw cotton, Turkmenistan, Turkmenistan textile industry

Cotton is a major source of the country's export, and it is the raw material for dozens of modern enterprises of the dynamically developing Turkmenistan's textile industry. Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammadov at the governmental meeting expressed dissatisfaction with the pace of the agricultural work, primarily cotton harvesting.

He demanded the necessary organizational arrangements be made in order to ensure that the regions fulfill their commitments on delivering raw cotton.

Related Keywords: Bombay Dyeing, home textile category, modern trade, Raymond, textile companies, trend of premiumisation, Welspun

Textile companies are making a comeback in the home textile category with premium products to build better margins in a segment that is still fragmented and unorganized. The trend of premiumisation has started gaining hold in the home textile segment.

Related Keywords: Diwali Festival, Federation of Gujarat Weavers Association, FOSTTA, man-made fibric industry, textile traders, Weavers

Textile traders and weavers have collectively decided to implement the form system to curb the rising cases of defaults in the country's biggest man-made fabric (MMF) industry.

If a trader in the textile market wishes to buy unfinished fabrics from weavers, he will have to fill in his phone number, address proof and other details in a form and also provide a passport-sized photograph to them.

Related Keywords: Ludhiana based leading manufacturer, manufacturer of terry towels, MP facility in Budni, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Trident Grtoup, yarn, yarn spindles

Trident Group, Ludhiana based leading manufacturer of terry towels, paper, yarn and chemicals plan to invest another Rs 2,400 crore in its existing MP facility in Budni. This new plant would make Trident the largest terry towel making company in the world.

Managing Director of Trident Group Rajendra Gupta unveil that the new unit, Terry Towel, set up by Trident Group will be world’s largest unit and has more than 300 looms in it, which will increase the yearly revenue by 1800 crore rupees.

Related Keywords: cotton yarn price, fluorescent jacket, knitwear segment, Knitwear Technology Mission, KTM, man made fiber, spring and summer garments, synthetic garment market, Tamil Nadu, Tirupur, Tirupur Exporters' Association

Garment exporters in Tirupur currently dominated by cotton garments are seeing opportunity in synthetic garments, as labour costs are increasing in China, which dominate the global synthetic garment business.

According to Tirupur Exporters' Association (TEA), garment exporters are in the process of tapping synthetic and blended garment segments in a big way, which constitute about 70 percent of global demand.