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INDA’s Board of Directors Welcomes Seven New Members
By INDA | INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, announced the membership election of seven industry leaders to serve on...
Mar 2, 2021


YKK Highlights Sustainability With Digital Spring/Summer 2022 Showcase
By YKK Europe | YKK will present its collection digitally, in response to the ongoing global pandemic. The format will include new...
Feb 23, 2021


Elevate Textiles Joins Sustainable Apparel Coalition: Elevate Brand A&E Participates
By Elevate Textiles | Elevate Textiles announces it has joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition to include its brands American & Efird...
Feb 22, 2021


Trade & Policy Round-up for February
By SPESA | A collection of stories related to trade and government policy that may impact the sewn products industry around the world...
Feb 17, 2021


Diversity Across Disability
By SourceAmerica | Diversity in the workplace is a major part of establishing an organization’s culture. Many companies have staff-led...
Feb 17, 2021


Techtextil North America 2021 Educational Features Now Accepting Applicants
By Messe Frankfurt | The 2021 edition of Techtextil North America is now accepting abstracts for the highly acclaimed Techtextil North...
Feb 16, 2021


CGS Adds BlueCherry Customers, Expands Services and Supply Chain Solutions
By CGS | CGS, a global provider of business applications, enterprise learning and outsourcing services, today announced that it saw...
Feb 11, 2021


Eastman Machine Company Announces Building Acquisition and Expansion of Headquarters
By Eastman Machine Company | Eastman Machine Company, influenced by client and product line growth, announces building acquisition and...
Feb 10, 2021


Tukatech and FK Group Release Premium Fabric Cutter
By California Apparel News | With a mission of digitizing the apparel industry’s manufacturing capabilities, the Los Angeles...
Feb 9, 2021


Lectra Enters into a Memorandum of Understanding to Acquire Gerber Technology
By Lectra & Gerber Technology | Lectra announces its plan to acquire the entire capital and voting rights of US-based Gerber Technology...
Feb 8, 2021


Lectra Partners with Microsoft to Boost Digital Transformation in the Fashion Industry
By Lectra | Lectra announces its partnership with Microsoft, which will help brands and retailers in the fashion industry focus on both...
Feb 4, 2021


Diversity News for the Sewn Products Industry
By SPESA Below is a compilation of news articles from the past few months that explore topics related to diversity and inclusion in the...
Feb 3, 2021


New Dates and New Event Cycle for Techtextil and Texprocess
By Messe Frankfurt | The dates for the next Techtextil and Texprocess in Frankfurt am Main have been fixed. The two trade fairs will be...
Feb 3, 2021


YKK Center Park Furusato-No-Mori Initiative Uses Technology To Visualize Carbon Dioxide Absorption
By Textile World | YKK Corp. has launched an experimental trial to visualize carbon dioxide absorption using “e-kakashi,” an AI-powered...
Feb 3, 2021


Industry and Union Coalition Outlines Policy Recommendations in Letters to President Biden, Congress
By NCTO | A broad coalition of industry organizations and labor unions, representing a broad spectrum of manufacturers and workers who...
Jan 29, 2021


Michael Stars Selects CGS BlueCherry® Enterprise Suite to Increase Speed to Market
By CGS | CGS, a global provider of business applications, enterprise learning and outsourcing services, announced that Michael Stars...
Jan 28, 2021


Techtextil North America 2021 to Reunite Textile Industry, Provide First-Class Education, Networking
By Messe Frankfurt | The first major textile event since Covid-19 put the brakes on trade shows in early 2020, Techtextil North America...
Jan 28, 2021


Video: Pivoting to PPE – People with Disabilities are Part of the Solution
By SourceAmerica | SourceAmerica connects government and corporate customers to a national network of nonprofit agencies hire individuals...
Jan 26, 2021


French Manufacturer Bonneterie Chanteclair Digitalizes with Gerber to Transform for the Pandemic Era
By WhatTheyThink | French knitwear clothing manufacturer, Bonneterie Chanteclair, is a certified Orgine France Garantie, meaning all of...
Jan 20, 2021


Trade & Policy Round-up for January
By SPESA | The U.S. swears in its 46th president today, and there are a lot of opinions out there on what President Biden’s priorities...
Jan 20, 2021
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