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Training centre and factory in one: new Fashion and Textiles Academy in Wales

Non-profit organisation and manufacturer Fashion-Enter Ltd (FEL) is opening a new location of the London-based educational institution Fashion & Textiles Academy in Newtown, Wales. The new school combines a learning academy with a factory. For the launch of the new academy, FEL’s Wales branch joined forces with the local NPTC group of colleges,...

People

US textile industry mourns the passing of Congressman Bill Pascrell

Rep. Bill Pascrell, longtime New Jersey congressman, co-chair of the House Textile Caucus and fierce opponent of Donald Trump, passed away Wednesday morning at the age of 87. A Democrat, Rep. Pascrell lived his entire life in Paterson, New Jersey, where he advocated for workers’ rights and working families. Since 2013, he has also served as...

BusinessPress Release

European Textile Industry Calls for Immediate Action to Tackle the Energy Crisis - the Future of the European Industry is at Stake

The European textile & fashion in Europe, represented by EURATEX, calls for a single European strategy to tackle this energy crisis. To safeguard the future of the industry, a revision of the electricity price mechanism is necessary and an EU wide cap on gas prices at 80€/MWh. Special company support needs to be granted to avoid bankruptcy and...

RetailPress Release

EU-India Free Trade negotiations

Today the European Commission released its long-awaited Strategy for Sustainable Textile, with the ambition to move the sector towards the path of sustainability. EURATEX welcomes the EU ambitions to act on sustainable textiles and investments, in order to change how textiles are made, chosen and recovered. Many European companies have already...

Fashion Featured

Textile industry is “far from sustainable” states WWF

The clothing and textile industry has an “ecological footprint which is far from sustainable” due to the 1.7 billion tones of carbon dioxide it emits annually, states a new report from WWF Switzerland. In the ‘Changing fashion: The clothing and textile industry at the brink of radical transformation’ report, the WWF says that the fashion...

Apparel

Nigeria: counterfeiting costs textile industry a million jobs

In the last twenty years, more than a million Nigerian textile and apparel workers have lost their jobs due to counterfeited products. The prevalence of counterfeiting has forced many textile factories to close, leaving the whole industry in danger and posing a potential danger to the economy and its position as a new frontier economy. Industry...

Fashion

Textile industry: child labor still common

Around 168 million children are still working worldwide and of those, 85 million in hazardous conditions, so the latest 900-page report “Findings on the worst forms of child labor” by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs. Unfortunately, the textile and garment industry is one of the sectors that keeps resorting to...

Apparel

Bangladesh: Safety Accord ready to be implemented

After meeting the 45-day-deadline, the steering committee announced yesterday that it is ready to implement the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh. The five-year legal binding agreement is an effort by international labour organisations, NGOs and almost 70 international brands and retailers (see below for a complete list) to...

Fashion

What to buy - can consumers make a difference?

IN_DEPTH_ In view of the recent tragic accidents in sourcing countries like Bangladesh, Pakistan and Cambodia, what can consumers do to make sure the clothes they buy are not produced in unsafe factories? Can they do anything? This next installment in our sourcing series takes a look at different options. Let’s first examine a common assumption...

Fashion

H&M, C&A, Inditex & Co. support safety plan

It took the worst industrial disaster ever with more than a thousand dead workers to finally stir up things but the textile and garment industry is all set to bring about the necessary change. Some of the biggest fashion companies like H&M, C&A, Inditex and others have finally agreed to support the agreement on fire and building safety in...

Fashion

Bangladesh: death toll rises to more than 700

The collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Savar, one of Dhaka’s suburbs, marks a sad record: With the number of dead having risen to 705 as of Tuesday afternoon, it is the worst industrial disaster not only for Bangladesh but for the world. The building that housed five textile factories collapsed exactly two weeks ago on 24th April. Despite...

Fashion

Public unrest by Bangladesh building collapse

Despite garment factories remaining closed in Bangladesh on Saturday and Sunday, the weekend saw heavy protests by garment workers in different parts of Dhaka, Savar and Chittagong, many of which turned violent. Angry demonstrators demanded the arrest of the owner of Rana Plaza, the building that collapsed last Wednesday, and wielded sticks,...