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The London Textile Fair is set to launch an extra edition for Asian suppliers
Written By Views maker on May 04, 2014 | 5/04/2014
The London Textile Fair is set to launch an extra edition for Asian suppliers this October, after KellyKO, the fairs organizers were “completely inundated” with requests from Asian textile manufacturers and mills.
“The London Asia Textile Fair will now be the first fair catering exclusively for manufacturers from the Asian market. With the support of many of the biggest UK textile agents, the fair will undoubtedly be a great success,” commented the fairs' organizers.
Known as the London Asia Textile Fair, the event is set to showcase a number of textile suppliers from China, the Philippines, Korea and Thailand. The fair will be hosted in Shoreditch's town hall in London, from 27 October to 28, 2014.
John Kelley, the fair organizer, revealed that already 35 exhibitors have signed to show and 100 manufacturers are predicted to attend the upcoming edition.
“We kept on getting requests from Asian manufacturers to join the London Textile event but as time scales are different we wanted to keep the Asian and European manufacturers separate,” he commented to Drapers.
'”We have a lot of the big boys in the clothing industry coming, all of the mills that deal with top UK retailers.” The fair will not be as large as its counterpart, the London Textile Fair, and is more selective with its exhibitors.
The Asian Fair is set to occur after the London Textile Fair, which is has over 250 exhibitors and will be held at the Business Design Center, in London on July 16 and 17.
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Japanese reduces it’s Textile Imports from China
The Japanese are shifting their business from China to other textile producing countries because of [political] tensions between Beijing and Tokyo. Last year, Japan’s textile imports from China dropped to 74pc of its total purchases of $40b, from 86pc a year earlier. China’s loss was the gain of Vietnam and Cambodia
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Africa’s First textile city in Kenya
Kenya will soon be the first country in sub-Sahara Africa, hosting a fully serviced textile city to meet the manufacturing investment needs for a number of leading global garment marketing firms.The Textile City model to be championed by the Ministry of Industrialization and Enterprise Development will besides foreign investments attraction be one of the key pillars earmarked as the national job creation platforms.
Speaking in Nairobi on Wednesday at the Export Processing Zone Authority (EPZA) Complex in Athi River, when he hosted a delegation of 40 international garment manufacturing firms, with combined annual revenue of more than $25 billion who are on a country visit, Cabinet Secretary, Adan Mohamed, confirmed that plans for the establishment of a textile city are now at an advanced stage.
The delegation is led by high ranking executives from PVH and VF Corporation, who are some of the world’s largest apparel manufacturing companies which own and market iconic brands worldwide.
By establishing a textile city, for onward leasing to potential investors, Kenya, Mohamed assured will be seeking to address existing industrialization bottlenecks at the Athi River EPZA zone as well as other locations.
The ministry, he said, targets to attract at least 100 textile investment firms at the textile city and create more than 200,000 sustainable textile jobs by December 2016.
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Eco Textiles news Article on Indian Textiles
Eco Textiles has published a news Article on Indian Textiles as below stating that Indian textiles are not adhering to Environmental law .
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Pakistan has miserably failed to take advantage of generalised scheme of preferences (GSP)
The GSP Plus facility is effective from January 1, 2014 and in the first three months the overall textile growth in the export to EU remained nominal against the estimated growth of 15 percent because of non-availability of gas, electricity and devaluation of dollar. The GSP plus granted to Pakistan is conditional on the ratification and implementation of 27 international conventions in the areas of human rights, labour standards, environment and good governance.
Adoption of these conventions will assist Pakistan in integrating into the cross-border supply chain, which will strengthen manufacturing activity and further promote its exports. Pakistan has ratified almost all the conventions. The most critical aspect of these conventions is that the EU through the unnamed third parties from civil society or non-government organisations will strictly monitor the compliance.
The overall exports growth in the first quarter remained at two to three percent as compared to estimated seven to eight percent, but in the case of textile sector, the overall growth in the first quarter remained in negative zone, Aneesul Haq, secretary of the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma), said that Punjab-based textile industry was on the verge of collapse because of non-availability of gas, electricity. He said that the Punjab textile sector was exposed to the eight hours of electricity and five days of gas outages owing to which the industry in Punjab was encountering the mammoth loss of Rs80 billion per annum. The industry has to generate electricity on its own, which is too much costly, he added.
This has increased the cost of doing business manifold owing to which their products have become uncompetitive in the EU market despite the fact that Pakistan is enjoying GSP Plus status in the bloc of 27 countries of Europe.
Haq further said that the cost of doing business jacked up by 20 percent in the wake of energy crisis and depreciation of dollar in the country if compared with the cost of doing business of their competitions in the global market.
Textile sector needs availability of gas at least for five days a week and zero load shedding in electricity supply from independent feeders.
In quantity terms, there is some growth of 20 percent in value added textile products that mainly include knit wear, bed wears and readymade garments.
However, overall growth in textile sector is negative.
Pakistan’s textile exports are currently at $13 billion, 35 percent of which are for EU countries.
After the GSP plus facility, “we estimated to increase the textile exports to $14 billion, but it seems now a mission impossible,” said secretary Aptma.
To a question, he said that textile sector had projected to increase the textile exports to EU countries by two billion dollars till the limit of the GSP plus and one billion dollar in the first year of the facility.
“If the situation does not improve then there will be no increase in the capacity of textile sector to generate surplus export and at the end of the day, Pakistan will not be able to exploit the advantage of GSP+ status.”
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