(ANTARA/Siswowidodo) Textile and textile product (TPT) industry and footwear industry are major contributors to sustaining the country`s manufacturing sector. The TPT and footwear exports were valued at US$12.46 billion last year, director general of manufacture industry Panggah Susanto said here Thursday. Apart from major contributor in export earning the two industries are labor intensive providing large jobs, Panggah said. He said the country`s footwear industry provide 1.8 percent

U.S. sports giant Nike has said it is “concerned” by allegations that Cambodian police used force while trying to quash a protest by workers at one of its supplier factories in Kompong Speu on Mon­day. “As outlined in Nike’s Code of Conduct, Nike re­quires its contract manufacturers to respect their employees’ rights to freedom of as­sociation,” said Ryan Green­wood, head of communications for Nike U.K. and Ire­land, in an email. On Monday, about 4,000 workers from Sab

Nantong Teijin Co, the Teijin Group's polyester textile manufacturing and processing company will showcase a range of functional materials at the Shanghai International Occupational Uniform Exhibition, China's sole international uniform show, which will be held at the Shanghai Everbright Convention & Exhibition Center from June 5-7, 2013. The company will promote its ongoing expansion in China's fast-growing market for uniforms. Located at B09-10, it will present high-quality polyester-b

About 3,500 workers protested on Wednesday at a factory in Cambodia that makes clothing for U.S. sportswear company Nike, refusing to give up their campaign for higher pay despite a crackdown by police this week. At least 23 people were injured on Monday when police with riot gear and stun batons were deployed to disperse about 3,000 workers, most of them women, who had blocked a road outside the factory owned by Sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing in Kampong Speu province, west of the c

Vietnam is estimated to have earned $6.39 billion from exporting garment and textile products in the first five months of this year, up 16.7% from a year earlier, said the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO). The country fetched $1.4 billion from shipping these products abroad in May, compared to the revised figure of $1.24 billion in April, the office noted. During the five-month period, the garment and textile sector remains the country’s second largest foreign currency earner f

AHEAD of the Children's Day on June 1, the city's quality watchdog has issued warnings regarding the design of drawstring and cord of children's clothing which can cause suffocation and on plasticizer in children's toys. A total of 59 batches of children's clothing out of 62 had problems in the design of drawstring and cord, the Shanghai Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau said yesterday, which has started to issue regular quality warnings for the first time. Four children's toys among th

A sit-in organised by employees at Kabo El-Nasr Clothing Textile Company in Alexandria has entered its sixth day in a row. The protesting workers are demanding their salaries for the month of May which are owed from the company but have so far not been paid. On Monday, employees representing the protesting workers travelled to Cairo to meet and file a complaint with Minister of Manpower Khaled Al-Azhari who assured them they will receive their wages, according to Susanne Nada, a lawyer from the

The Textile exporters of Faisalabad have strongly opposed the proposed merger of the Textile Ministry into the Commerce Ministry, terming it a negative move which would hurt the pace of growth in textile exports and would put the textile industry on reverse gear. Pakistan Textile Exporters Association Chairman Asghar Ali and Vice Chairman Muhammad Asif expressed grave concerns over the proposed merger and said that Pakistan has dynamic, vigorous and export-oriented textile industry that has an

Switzerland’s textile, clothing and shoe exports totalled in April of the ongoing year to CHF 271 million, compared to April 2012 a plus of 9.9 % and textile machines were exported in the value CHF 99 million (+27.9 %) Swiss exports of textiles, clothing and shoes amounted in the first four months of 2013 to CHF 1047 million (-3.0 %) and textile machinery in the value of CHF 352 million (+9.4 %). On the other hand apparel and footwear were imported in the value of CHF 2289 million (-1.8 %), and

Dolce & Gabbana designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana might be headed to prison. Aswas reported, they were fined a whopping $440 million for tax evasion, and now prosecutors are calling for the designing duo to each serve a two-and-a-half-year term. D&G's designers are in hot water related to the sale of the company in 2004 to a holding company in Luxembourg, according to WWD. Source: Glamour.