""In 2022, all the cotton in my home is collected by machine, and it is expected that the harvest will be finished in four days," Chen noted. "Picking cotton with machine reduces our costs and improve ...
"In recent years, low fertility rates have become a major problem plaguing more and more countries, and North Korea is no exception. As part of measures to improve North Korea's low birth rate, North ...
"Thousands of workers at the Myanmar Pou Chen Company Ltd. factory in Shwepyitha Township, Yangon Province, where Adidas brand shoes are manufactured, said that they will make collective demands if th ...
"We just noticed a mass movement of more than 150,000 tea workers striking and protesting for a minimum living wage in Bangladesh. Garment labour rights organisations have also started to mobilise for ...
"The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has often trumpeted the improvements it has achieved over the past five years with resolving individual and collective labour disputes in factories whic ...
"A Kazakh former internment camp inmate is suing the United Kingdom’s trade secretary for allowing imports of cotton he believes were obtained through forced labor in northwestern China’s Xinjiang reg ...
"The continuing global economic slowdown is expected to displace a maximum of 10 percent of the 280,000 estimated total workers in the apparel, textile, garments, and leathergoods industry in the coun ...
"These newly printed cotton-twill fabrics are being turned into bandanas and hair scrunchies at Fourbital Factory, a new, state-of-the-art apparel manufacturing plant in Burlington's South End. The 12 ...
"American garment manufacturing, long on the ropes, seemed to receive a knockout blow in the summer of 2020. Within the space of a month, three iconic factories long synonymous with American-made clot ...
"What happens to our brains when we buy? Veronica Milsom is struggling with the lure of online shopping. Between the sales, the marketing, and the influencers, it's hard to resist buying new things. S ...
"The 26th Taipei Innovative Textile Application show (TITAS), one of Asia’s leading trade shows, has begun and will continue until October 14, 2022. Around 367 exhibitors from across the globe are exp ...
"I am already hearing stories of people losing jobs in our industry and factories having to lay people off. Is this a temporary blip or the start of a long-term restructuring of our economy in a world ...
"A change is needed in the way the fashion industry buys and produces clothing. As more people learn about fashion’s dark underbelly, they are pushing the industry to do better. WFX - a market leader ...
"In an exclusive roundtable hosted by Just Style's editor Laura Husband, apparel industry experts Dr Sheng Lu and Bob Antoshak discussed the five biggest challenges facing the apparel supply chain at ...
"At Marks & Spencer, ethical trading is core to the way we do business. We have continued to monitor the market closely in Myanmar, through our partnership with the Ethical Trading Initiative, as well ...
"A.P. Moller - Maersk (Maersk) announces that it has ordered a further six large ocean-going vessels that can sail on green methanol. The six vessels will be built by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) an ...
"As retailers including M&S and Primark take steps to stop sourcing from Myanmar, Drapers speaks to fashion industry bodies and garment workers' rights campaigners on what constitutes a "responsible e ...
"Chemical and fibre company, Teijin Limited, is converting the in-house fossil fuel-based power generation facilities in use at its Matsuyama plant in Japan to a cogeneration system running on city ga ...
"The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has said it is working through “crucial insights and learnings” from a pilot designed to reposition the Higg Consumer Facing Transparency Programme after it ca ...
"080 Barcelona Fashion will celebrate its 30th edition in style. The fashion event, scheduled on October 25-28 in the Catalonian capital, will be held in physical format again after four digital editi ...
