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  • A new medical mask fiber has been developed by Far Eastern New Centure Corporation (FENC), which addresses a shortage in the meltblown non-wovens. According to the Taiwanese company, up to 20 million fabrics per day could exceed the daily demand of 13 million facemasks.The filtration layer of masks may be used to cover the nonwoven meltblowns. The unwoven structure of this type of material is based on nanoscale fibres. This arrangement allows the unwoven to absorb everything.Source:Textile Focus
  • the largest manufacturer of digital inkjet printers in India, has launched Oxyvent, a designer face filter brand that comes with creative prints on it to amplify the aesthetics. As the masks become a necessity, the need to give the industry a new shape by making it fashionable and appealing to the masses forms the core of this new venture.Pic: Colorjet GroupThe face filters are unique adhering to safety standards and putting in creative design prints to encourage more people into wearing them. T
  • The coronavirus outbreak is exacting a huge toll on Cambodia’s apparel manufacturing sector. Order cancellations, raw material scarcity and massive worker layoffs have changed the very dynamics, posing all new challenges for its survival.Image Courtesy:asia.nikkei.comManufacturing destinations across the globe have had a tough time in the last few months and it’s still continuing. The global outbreak of COVID-19 left a trail of devastation in its wake, impacting all the apparel manufacturing and
  • The Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA) has thanked the government for revising thein the stimulus package—a long pending demand by the industry, which the association thinks will greatly benefit over 60 per cent of companies across the textile value chain, especially the garment and made-ups units.In a press release,hoped the government would consider the industry’s demand to extend the moratorium for repayment of loans and interest already extended for three months from March 1 for anothe
  • BALTIMORE - Sportswear brand Under Armour has followed rivals like Nike and Adidas in agreeing to pay its suppliers in full and on time for all orders that were in production when the coronavirus pandemic hit.Many brands have been criticised for cancelling or postponing orders - including those already completed or in production - from suppliers, or demanding discounts to accept them.Under Armour’s move comes amidst a cost-cutting excercise by the company, after its first-quarter sales plummeted
  • CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS - The Queen of Raw platform that connects buyers and sellers of unused fabrics has won funding from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's MIT Solve initiative.Queen of Raw works to give new life to the estimated US$120 billion of unused fabric stowed away in factories by making it available to be bought and sold online through its marketplace."These materials end up burned or buried. And we're here to rescue them," said the fledgling company in a
  • The textile and apparel sector, the second largest employment generator after agriculture and which comprises 80 per cent of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in India, will definitely get a morale boost through the stimulus package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday, according to thePic: ShutterstockThe government hasby allowing units with investment up to ₹1 crore instead of ₹25 lakh and units with turnover up to ₹5 crore to be called micro units. The investment and
  • Peek & Cloppenburg KG, Düsseldorf, which sells designer and own-brand fashion for men, women, teens, and children, has not cancelled any production orders amidst the situation arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, the German retailer has assured its garment suppliers of accepting shipment of goods that were already manufactured.Pic: Peek & Cloppenburg KG DüsseldorfIn response to Fibre2Fashion's email asking how the company intends to support its suppliers during the current
  • factory owners in Bangladesh have agreed not to sack workers until the next Eid-ul-Fitr as the sector struggles amid theaccording to the country’s labour and employment ministry, which recently said the decision was taken at a meeting on May 4 in presence of state minister for labour and employment Begum Monnujan Sufian.Pic: ShutterstockFactory owners also agreed to pay 65 per cent gross salaries to workers who didn’t work in April. Besides, those who worked during the holidays will get full sal
  • NuOrder, the renowned wholesale e-commerce platform, is going to help buyers interact with products and gear as if they are seeing in person.Yes, come June and NuOrder is coming up with a virtual showroom for all brands, who can display the best of their products through an immersive online experience.It couldn’t have come at a better time for the retailers and apparel brands, who are struggling in these tough times. This showroom will help these retailers have a 360 degree view of products.Near
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