Reports

The force majeure cancellations and payment battles that socked Indian exports after the first 2020 lockdown are mostly a thing of the past. But if Indian industry has to rise from the COVID-19 ashes, it will have to boost capacities and need the requisite resources too.

The recently-announced EU Textiles Strategy is likely to have a bearing on how the textiles-apparel-fashion industry works around the world. But before that can happen, the Strategy would have to be writ in law(s). A peek into how matters might unfold.

Keeping consumers at the heart of policies/decisionmaking would be key in the days ahead, and it should not just be about products but also how products are used. And, empowering consumers on tackling greenwashing would sum up the process. People in the know tell texfash.com.

Fashion giant Inditex has taken umbrage to a Vietnam-born entrepreneur for using the name 'Tara Sartoria' for a small artisan-driven clothing business that she had founded and was selling through the website tarasartoria.com. A texfash.com report.

The pandemic was unprecedented, and everyone made mistakes. As COVID-19 variants turn milder and some semblance of normalcy returns, a quick lookback.

As trade wars rage, a new mega-treaty comes into play and some uncertainties keep rankling Sri Lanka’s GSP+ status from the EU. A look at how the country’s apparel industry is working it out.

With the forex crisis in Sri Lanka keeping the country on tenterhooks, the importance of the apparel manufacturing sector becomes paramount. Also, it has to earn more and spend less.

For one week the air pollution levels in Delhi and the NCR (National Capital Region) shot through the roof, forcing authorities to declare a public health emergency. Schools and colleges remained closed as Delhi-NCR choked under the dense fumes wafting in from neighbouring Punjab and Haryana. The capital region had its sources of pollution (from vehicular emissions to pollution caused by power plants), but the stubble burning in the two Northern states came as the last straw. Even though, at its...

The event promises to be the largest confluence of technology, professionals and policymakers from the Indian textiles and apparel industry. It its third edition this year, ITMACH India is positioning itself itself as a must-visit platform for machinery makers desirous of meeting investors, demonstrating new innovations, and exchanging ideas with user industries. The third edition of ITMACH India will be held from December 5–8 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Coming barely six months after ITMA 2019 at...

Technology is developing at a frenetic pace, reshaping life everyday as we know it. Technology is also reshaping the global textiles-apparel-fashion industry in ways that one cannot even imagine. But technology does not develop in isolation; new technologies also mean new ideas and new materials. For those in the industry, ShanghaiTex 2019 would be a heaven-sent opportunity to look at some of them before they eventually come into play and disrupt lives all over again. This November, ShanghaiTex...