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Inditex, a Spanish multinational clothing company to team up with Lenzing to commit to the circular economy model in all phases of its production. It will be focusing on creating premium textile raw materials from its fabric scraps, initially involving about 500 tons of textile waste.

The collaboration is meant to kick-start a clothing collection campaign as well as a reuse and recycling programme for discarded garments. The aim is to raise this to around 3 000 tons within a few years, said Inditex’s chairman and chief executive Pablo Isla.

Related Keywords: Africa, Asia, Asian textile industry, collapsing factories, Ethiopia, global textile, global textile brands, Inditex, Kenyan textile industry, production hub, soaring labour wages, Swedish chain H&M, US-based WalMart, value adding industry, violent workers protest

Global textile retailers have found alternatives to Asia as a production hub as they saw some bad event happening in Asia’s textile industry in the year 2014 like the soaring labour wages in China, violent workers’ protests in Cambodia and collapsing factories in Bangladesh. These events points at the fact that the entire Asia textile industry seems to be in transition and the transition lies in a shift to a more value-adding industry.

Related Keywords: brand, fashion retailer, FIPB, Indian retail operation group, Inditex, joint venture, Massimo Dutti Stores, Spanish clothing company, Trent

Inditex a Spanish multinational clothing company headquartered in Arteixo, Galicia and one of the world's largest fashion retailers with eight brands and over 6,390 stores throughout the world. Inspired by a responsible passion for fashion and, above all, by the customers plans to open its Massimo Dutti stores in India, one year after signing a joint venture to run stores under the brand in an agreement with Indian retail operations group Trent.