“Chinese businessman Zeng Yifa is probably proud of his success. [...] In a Chinese news story, Zeng poses next to a line of winter jackets at his factory. The story is about a factory that Zeng has s ...
“The survey found that only 22% of the workers, who wished to be vaccinated, had information on how to gain access to jabs. [...] The country’s apparel workers have little access to adequate informati ...
“A police crackdown against Lesotho garment workers protesting a two-year delay in scheduled minimum wage increases resulted in two fatalities in Maseru, the capital, last week. Pitso Mothala and Mots ...
“The CEO of a Denver-based oilfield services firm reportedly fired the latest salvo in a campaign to take on The North Face and its Denver-based parent, VF Corp., on its stand against fossil fuels. Th ...
“Testex, an independent Swiss testing and certification organisation with focus on textile and leather testing, has announced the official opening of its Mauritius and Madagascar representative office ...
"US apparel company Rent the Runway (RTR) has announced that it is to enter the resale market in a bid to engage new customers after a turbulent past year. Now, shoppers will be able to browse the com ...
“A team of researchers have kick-started a first of its kind study in the UK, which will measure the presence of microplastics and textile microfibres within people’s homes. Teams at the University of ...
“French fashion giant LVMH, which owns the likes of Stella McCartney, Givenchy and Christian Dior, has announced a partnership with environmental non-profit Canopy. Canopy works with stakeholders acro ...
“Garment factory owners in Cambodia have rejected a request from their workers, who have been unable to work during the country's current lockdown, to be paid in full. It comes as a new survey reveals ...
“Worker rights campaigners are accusing leading brands Bestseller, H&M and Primark of resuming sourcing from crisis-hit Myanmar without consulting trade unions. The US-based Worker Rights Consortium ( ...
“In the past decade, the textile and footwear industry has spared no effort in identifying the key considerations for the environmental performance of the supply chain, particularly with downstream su ...
“With the starting of this plant, Balotara will get respite from its decades old problems of pollution. Crores of litres of groundwater can be preserved in Balotara with this project and the quality o ...
“New research suggests consumers are keen to shop for more ‘sustainable’ fashion, but almost half aren’t sure where to find it or what constitutes a sustainable garment. The survey of 2,000 US teens a ...
“A fire broke out in the factory, which produces bed linen and towels in the Hacıeyüplü District, for an undetermined reason. [...] 27 fire trucks and 70 personnel from the Denizli Metropolitan Munici ...
"Today, we are very happy to invite several representatives of ethnic minorities from Kashgar, Hotan, Kezhou, Aksu, Bazhou, Turpan and other places. [...] "Recently, I saw on the Internet that some pe ...
A recent study has shown only 4 per cent of workers said they received alternative transport services from their factories during the recent lockdown. The South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SAN ...
“[A] disturbing trend has emerged: apparently scientific assessments of the wildlife trade that purport to reveal major problems, but seem at least partly to reflect a philosophical opposition to anim ...
“A ranking of 18 of the UK’s most influential high street and online fashion retailers has revealed weak progress across the board on labour practices and supply chain worker conditions, with half of ...
“The [Karnataka] State government’s decision to vaccinate industrial workers will ensure that factory production will not be affected in future waves of COVID-19 and will guarantee greater protection ...
“The key trends for non-woven fabric producing machinery are demand and requirement for low energy consumption rates per kg of textile material, a low carbon dioxide footprint associated with machine ...
