International Textile Manufacturing Federation (ITMF) news and archive

Results of the 38 th ITMF Global Textile Industry Survey: Bottoming Out, Cautious Recovery?

The global textile industry appears to be turning a corner, but this is more likely a fragile and possibly temporary improvement than the start of a durable recovery. According to the 38 th ITMF Global Textile Industry Survey, conducted worldwide during the second half of May 2026, business sentiment, order intake, order backlogs and capacity...

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Putting priorities back into production

How can garment manufacturers enable environmental transformation? And how can they do this in a nationally coordinated, structured and country-specific way? This is why the manufacturer-led ATTI platform (Apparel and Textile Transformation Initiative) was conceived a couple of years ago and officially established as an organisation in 2025. Its...

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SIMTA joins ITMF as Corporate Member

In the past two decades SIMTA has established itself as producer of specialized machinery for the textile industry. In short period of time, SIMTA became an important supplier of precise rollers for top OEMs. Afterwards SIMTA started manufacturing overhead cleaners, bobbin transport systems, and other textile ancillaries. In the meantime, SIMTA...

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Tracing Production Costs and Carbon Footprint in the Primary Textile Industry

The new edition of the International Production Cost Comparison (IPCC) from ITMF has been published. The report benchmarks manufacturing costs for a range of textile products along the primary textile value chain, disaggregated by key cost components at each production stage. This edition of the IPCC covers cost data for the year 2023. Given the...

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RSWM Ltd. joins ITMF as Corporate Member

RSWM Ltd., the flagship company of LNJ Bhilwara Group (India), is one of the leading manufacturers and exporters of synthetic, cotton, and blended spun yarns as well as knitted and denim fabric in India. The company exports a wide range of yarns and fabrics as well as denim products to over 70 countries across the globe. Mr. K.V. Srinivasan,...

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Results of the 31st ITMF Global Textile Industry Survey

The International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF), has released the results of its Global Textile Industry Survey (GTIS) for March 2025. This survey, conducted regularly across all key regions and segments of the textile value chain, revealed a complex picture of a deteriorated business situation, cautious optimism, regional divergence,...

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US-tariffs are disrupting the global textile and apparel value chains resulting in higher prices in the U.S.

The U.S. administration's decision to unilaterally impose sweeping tariff increases on imported goods represents a significant challenge to the existing global trading system, which has long been structured around multilateral (WTO), regional, and bilateral (FTA) trade agreements. Mr. K. V. Srinivasan, President of the International Textile...

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Reju joins ITMF as Corporate Member

Reju is a purpose driven materials regeneration company focused on creating innovative solutions for recycling polyester textiles and PET waste. Owned by Technip Energies, a world-leading engineering and technology company, Reju is using proprietary technology to establish a circular ecosystem for textile recycling to reduce global plastic found...

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IAF and ITMF Unite Global Fashion and Textile Leaders at the Samarkand Convention

The joint ITMF Annual Conference and IAF World Fashion Convention was held on September 8-10 in the historic city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. This year’s convention, co-organized by the International Apparel Federation (IAF) and the International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF), and hosted by Uztextileprom, the Uzbekistan Textile and...

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ITMF & IAF Convention 2024 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan

September 8th-10th, 2024 Comprehensive and high-level program takes shape As frequent visitors of the ITMF and IAF annual conferences have come to expect, industry experts will share the cutting edge of the developments that currently define the textile-apparel industrial complex. The unique collaboration of the textile industry federation ITMF...