Textiles
750 Workers Laid Off at Ugandan Textile Manufacturer
Declining demand due to increasing imports from China has caused Southern Range Nyanza, a Ugandan textile…
Bolt Threads Raises $40M to Bring Engineered Silk Technology to Market
Bolt Threads, a new company developing the next generation of high-performance textiles, collected $32.3…
4,000 New Textile Jobs On the Way in Manchester
Nearly 40 years since the once booming textile industry of Manchester, England, began to go bust, the city…
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European Mills Known For Luxury Coat Fabrics
Europe boasts some of the world's leading wool and cashmere manufacturers. From the green meadows of…
Chinese Counterfeits Plague Ghana Textile Sector
Nigeria is not the only African nation struggling with smuggled Chinese textiles.
Philippines to Move Wearable Fruit Fibers Mainstream With $1.2M R&D Facility
It's common knowledge that a healthy diet should include at least five servings of fruit and vegetables a…
Textile Waste Still a Major Problem
With environmental concerns mounting in recent years, there is more pressure on companies to dispose of their…
Customs Officials Seize More Than $1.5B Chinese Textiles in Nigeria
The Nigeria Customs Service on Tuesday uncovered contraband textiles valued at 315.9 billion naira (or $1.58…
Scientists Successfully Separate Poly-Cotton Blend Textiles
Americans donate or recycle an average of 12 pounds of apparel, footwear and household textiles annually—but…
Talon Teams With PVH For Flexible Dress Shirt Collars
PVH Corp., parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, has inked an exclusive North American supply…
Chinese Target Textile Mills with New Water Protection Plan
The textile dyeing and finishing industries will be hardest hit by the Chinese government's recently released…
Nigerian Dyers Protest Chinese Imports
More than 30,000 textile dyers and traders in Nigeria could lose their jobs if the country continues to…
India Orders Closure of 893 Textile Units
Nearly 900 textile units in Sanganer near Jaipur in India have been ordered by the high court to cease…
Vietnam Turns Down Foreign Textile Investments Worth Millions
Vietnamese authorities have rejected two foreign-invested textile and dyeing projects because of…
Report: Fire-Resistant Fabric Market Will Be Worth $5B by 2020
Since California's 1975 adoption of strict flammability standards for consumer products spanning children's…