Bangladesh has become a key place for denim apparel production and export both to EU and US markets. The country has seen a great growth in denim apparel manufacturing over the last few years and today Bangladesh is the third largest exporter of denim apparel to US . There are a number of denim exporters from Bangladesh and many of them have good capacities and capabilities. However, on meeting one of the denim companies from Bangladesh- Denim Expert , I felt that it was quite different from ...Read More

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“Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” says Brundtland Politician and sustainable development leader. This concept has been imbibed by Garmon and Bozetto – who are a chemical manufacturing company from Italy and firmly believe in innovation with sustainability.   According to them , world still lacks the know-how and technologies to be 100% sustainable; but ...Read More

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Levi’s has started offering a new collection of jeans which consumes less water . The logic behind this ? Levi’s did a ‘Cradle to grave’ study for its 501 jeans and found that about 3480 ltrs of water in its entire lifetime !! . This is a phenomenol amount of water to be spent on a single pair of jeans . The majority of this water is spent by consumers during the washing process of jeans at their homes . Though Levi’s could not control the water that consumers use at their homes, ...Read More

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Invista sponsored the recently held Kingins show and  will be sponsoring the upcoming next few shows in LA  , Hong Kong and Shanghai . They also displayed some of their cool denim products at the NY show . Lycra name being synonymous with stretch , most of the products were stretch related though some of them were also non- stretch and were broadly divided into four fabric themes . I spoke to Kristin Altimari and she explained all the denim themes that Invista is focusing on ...Read More

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  Morrison Textile Machinery is a global leader in textile processing machinery. They are particularly famous for its Rope Dyeing Machines for denim  fabrics and have installed over 200 machines worldwide. They have shared with us some information on the ‘Duties and Responsbilities of the Indigo Dye operators’ and this info would be useful for many of our readers(with technical background)  who come from various denim mills around the world. Here is the summary of the ...Read More

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