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3 killed, 2 injured in Ludhiana factory fire
"A major fire broke out on Tuesday at Ganesh Trading Corporation [Manufacturer and exporter of woolen products] unit in Ram Nagar, Berry street near Lakkar bridge. Three factory workers were killed in ...
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March 17, 2023
Firefighters remain at scene of Cleckheaton textile factory blaze into early hours of the morning
"Firefighters sent to tackle a large fire at a textile recycling warehouse in Liversedge were still on the scene at 4am." ...
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March 17, 2023
3 killed after getting stuck in Savar factory septic tank
"The incident took place in the evening at Al Rahman Knit Fashion BD Limited factory. Three men were killed on Wednesday while cleaning the septic tank of a factory in Dhaka's Savar." ...
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March 17, 2023
Tk 25,000 sought as minimum wage for garment workers
"Leaders of 12 rights bodies for garment workers on Wednesday called on the government to form a new wage board within 30 days and raised the minimum wage to Tk 25,000 for apparel workers. [...] A ser ...
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March 17, 2023
‘AAP govt not serious about fire safety’
"Leader of opposition in Punjab assembly Partap Singh Bajwa on Wednesday slammed the AAP government for failing to ensure the implementation of fire safety norms across the state. Reacting on the fire ...
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March 17, 2023
Textile fibre demo plant moves into start-up phase
"A sustainable textile fibre demonstration plant built in Sweden by TreeToTextile, a company jointly owned by H&M, IKEA, pulp manufacturer Stora Enso and LSCS Invest, has moved into the start-up phase ...
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March 17, 2023
Exploitation and abuse await rural migrants pouring into cities
"Union activist Ye Naing Win said female workers are particularly vulnerable. “Over 80pc of garment workers are female, and many internal migrants are women. We need to provide a stable working enviro ...
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March 17, 2023
Karnataka: CITU Urges Governor to Reject Amendment to Factories Act
"The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) general secretary, Tapan Kumar Sen, has written to the Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala and urged him not to give his assent to the amendment to the Factories ...
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March 17, 2023
H&M U.S. Launches "H&M pre-loved" powered by ThredUp
"H&M U.S is helping garments gain a second life with its very first resale business model in the U.S. on March 14th, 2023, through thredUP's Resale-as-a-Service (RaaS). "H&M Pre-Loved" offers customer ...
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March 16, 2023
Trove releases first brand resale leaderboard
"Californian recommerce specialist Trove has published the first of what it says will be an annual assessment of the resale platforms of more than 40 leading fashion brands and retailers." ...
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March 16, 2023
The new documentary *Fashion Reimagined* & the film's star on the need to truly reconnect with the people, the land & the process behind our clothes
"In episode 289, Kestrel welcomes Amy Powney, a UK based fashion designer, creative director and activist living in London. After starting as an assistant who swept the cutting room floor, Amy worked ...
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March 16, 2023
23 million returned fashion items sent to landfill in 2022, says landmark BFC study
"Some 23 million items of returned fashion were sent to landfill or incinerated in the UK last year, according to a new landmark study from the British Fashion Council’s (BFC) Institute of Positive Fa ...
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March 16, 2023
Solving fashion’s product returns: How to keep value in a closed-loop system
"In 2020, the British Fashion Council (BFC) launched the Institute of Positive Fashion (IPF) to create a new industry standard for accountability by acting as a catalyst for change in the UK fashion i ...
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March 16, 2023
Can Pangaia be more than a loungewear brand?
"Pangaia’s brightly-coloured loungewear drove a pandemic sales boom, but the company’s bigger ambition to establish itself as a materials innovation powerhouse remains nascent. The brand swung from an ...
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March 16, 2023
$30 million worth of us fashion imports stopped for forced labour inspections in last year
"A total of 631 apparel, footwear and textile shipments with a combined value of $29.55 million have been stopped under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) since it came into effect in June ...
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March 16, 2023
Report: Clothing rental market to grow by 3 billion dollars from 2021 to 2026
"Technology research and advisory company Technavio released a report on the growth of the clothing rental market, pointing out its estimated increase by 3 billion dollars from 2021 to 2026 and highli ...
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March 16, 2023
German department store Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof to close 52 branches, 4,000 jobs at risk
"The iconic German department store chain Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof, will close down 52 of its 129 stores, as announced on Monday by the group, which has been struggling financially for several years." ...
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March 16, 2023
FibreTrace and Circular Systems join forces
"Textile innovation company Circular Systems has joined forces with traceable fibre technology specialist FibreTrace, to implement physical traceability technology into Texloop recycled cotton on a gl ...
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March 16, 2023
United Students Against Sweatshops call on UMich administration to condemn alleged wage theft in Nike factory
"Four students and one faculty member addressed a letter to University President Santa Ono calling on the University of Michigan to condemn alleged wage theft by Nike and the Hong Seng Knitting factor ...
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March 15, 2023
Research project explores past and future dyes
"The University of Helsinki has been awarded European Union (EU) grants worth nearly €1.7 million (US$1.8m) for a research project that combines the cultural history of textile dyeing with the explora ...
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March 15, 2023