As major British apparel retailer Next Plc slashed its work order volume, Bangladesh has already started feeling the pinch of Brexit, claims a senior official of a sourcing company. The UK is the third largest garment export destination for Bangladesh after the US and Germany.

US men’s underwear and women’s lingerie market will witness significant growth over 2015 to 2021, owing to increased proliferation of modern retail formats such as supermarkets, discount stores, and pharmacy stores; rising personal income of US households; etc.

US President Donald Trump abruptly ended the decades-old US tilt toward free trade by signing an executive order to withdraw from an Asia-Pacific accord that was never ratified and promising to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta).

US men’s underwear and women’s lingerie market will witness significant growth over 2015 to 2021, owing to increased proliferation of modern retail formats such as supermarkets, discount stores, and pharmacy stores; rising personal income of US households etc.

Beijing SOL Flame-retardant Fiber Limited (SOL) has developed a new flame-resistant (FR) cellulose fibre—SOL FR—after more than 10 years of research. SOL FR is produced through spinning and solidifying action after a grafting reaction between cellulose solution and new silicon-nitrogen flame retardants, making it a revolutionary innovation.

Hans Gerhard Wroblowski explains the cost savings in continuous dyeing with Monforts E Control/T-CA and Eco Line finishing. Monforts Textilmaschinen GmbH has been active in the textile machinery sector since 1884 and has continuously developed – together with well-known industrial partners including Dystar, Acroma etc.

Durst, a manufacturer of advanced digital production technologies, displayed its extensive Alpha Series portfolio with multi-pass inkjet printing systems for the digital production of home textiles and fashion at Heimtextil 2017, held in Frankfurt, Germany from January 10 to 13, 2017.

At Heimtextil, Epson demonstrated its most advanced range of digital textile printers developed to meet the professional textile market’s demand for flexible, cost-effective and sustainable production solutions.

Industrial Products Finder (IPF) hosted the first-ever IPF Industrial Excellence Awards on December 1, 2016 during the WIN India expo. Organised by ASAPP Info Global Group, the award recognised and felicitated the Fastest Growing Manufacturing Companies as well as ‘Products that Meet the Standards of Product Excellence’.