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According to sources, Indonesian Textile Association (API) in cooperation with Central and Regional Administrations are on the verge of setting up a Textile city at Majalengka, located in West Java. Within a period of three year and a investment of Rp1.7 trillion (US$190 million), the assignment is to be completed, for which a comprehensive and viable study is carried on. Addressing the media, Ansari Bukhari, Director General of textiles and textile products, Metal, Machine, Textile and Multifarious Industries, said that Majalengka would be Indonesia’s first industrial hub with such a project. Due to recurring flood in Bandung, Capital of West Java, various textile factories including the recent setups would be moving to Majalengka. Source : http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/textile-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=37019 |
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Indonesia : Majalengka, an upcoming textile city
Retail Therapy: Top textile sale
India is the inspiration for these'museum-worthy' textiles from
Sally Campbell
June 27, 2007
You've been forewarned: a sale of Sally Campbell's handmade textiles will be held next weekend. Campbell designed sets and costumes in Australia for 25 years. You may recognise her work in My Brilliant Career, Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World and Vincent Ward's The Navigator. After a health scare she gave up film and decided to pursue her love of fabrics and India, and started designing quilts, throws, curtains, tablecloths, cushion covers, shawls and accessories. She works with a women's co-operative famous for its applique work, and in West Bengal villages alongside specialist weavers for her contemporary designs achieved with traditional crafts. We can't wait to get our hands on some of the stuff the Sydney Morning Herald called "museum-worthy". The sale is at Liz Mitchell Design, 9 Maidstone St, Ponsonby July 7-8.
Designs on award
You've been forewarned: a sale of Sally Campbell's handmade textiles will be held next weekend. Campbell designed sets and costumes in Australia for 25 years. You may recognise her work in My Brilliant Career, Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World and Vincent Ward's The Navigator. After a health scare she gave up film and decided to pursue her love of fabrics and India, and started designing quilts, throws, curtains, tablecloths, cushion covers, shawls and accessories. She works with a women's co-operative famous for its applique work, and in West Bengal villages alongside specialist weavers for her contemporary designs achieved with traditional crafts. We can't wait to get our hands on some of the stuff the Sydney Morning Herald called "museum-worthy". The sale is at Liz Mitchell Design, 9 Maidstone St, Ponsonby July 7-8.
Designs on award
Launching pads for designers just starting are few and far between. Thank goodness then for the Fashion Design Ambassador award, for which entries are being called. Sponsored by Deutz and presented in partnership with the British Council, the winner receives a return trip to London, $3000, and a chance to meet some of London's fashion fraternity. Last year's winner Sherie Muys was able to be an intern at Bora Aksu and had some fantastic exposure. Finalists also take part in a show during September's Fashion Week. It's open to final-year fashion students, recent graduates and designers with less than five years' experience. Entries close July 27. To enter go to www.deutz.co.nz
Street votes
Federation needs your help. The streetwear outfit has been nominated for an award in this year's Sportswear International Fashion Awards, or Sifas. The category it's up for is Best Sport/Street Collection and it is up against 17 other nominees, including Stussy and Converse by John Varvatos. Readers vote to select the top five for each category on the Sportswear International website, so vote. Go to www.sifa.sportswearnet-special.com Once it's down to the top five, a panel of international retailers decides the winner, which will be featured in the 214th issue of Sportswear International in August.
Source : http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=42&objectid=10448126
Pakistan - Remedial steps must to save textile spinning industry
26 Jun, 2007 - Pakistan
All Pakistan Textile Association (APTA) Chairman Adil Mahmood has said that the spinners think that the textile spinning industry could only be saved if the government takes immediate remedial measures in this regard.
Addressing a press conference here after meeting with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, the APTA chairman said that they demanded 5 percent RandD facility for textile spinning sector as given to all other textile sectors. He said that the RandD was demented to be allowed on all sales, local and export as eventually most of our yarn is exported directly or after conversion. He said that loans of long term and short term may be converted to 7.5 percent mark up rates, repayable over 7 years, to cover leasing and banks lending as has been done for other textile sectors except spinning under the LTF scheme. He said that even the mills, which had not been able to keep up with their payments, should be allowed to avail of this facility.
The 25 per cent reduction in utility prices for textile spinning mills as has been done for the agricultural sector. Moratorium of 2 years for repayments of loans for them to settle down. A respectable bankruptcy / exit policy for those mills that cannot survive or have given up, he said pointed out of the demands.
He said that the National Assembly members noticed the demonstration and brought this to the attention of the speaker, 5 MNAs including Nazir Ahmed Jatt, Haroon Piracha, Naqai and Mushtaq Cheema, Federal Minister for Textiles came out to meet the protesting mill owners. He said that six representatives of APTA including Tanveer Shaikh, Chaudhry Akhtar, Khurram Khan, Feroze Gulzar and Nazir Piracha were asked to come into the NA and they met Cheema and then the Prime Minister and appraised them of their grievances.
Adil said that the ministers were advised that the spinning industry is closing and many more will close down if nothing is done and done soon.
The ministers were told that it was a real fear that close to 2 million people directly and indirectly employed by this sector would be rendered jobless very soon. He said that the ministers were advised that if spinning closes then the value added industry would also not be able to absorb the additional costs of importing yarn and producing its products eventually leading to their closure also. Cotton would be exported and yarn and fabric would be imported which was clearly not desirable given the already high levels of trade deficits.
He said that the PM also agreed to look into the balance demands. The PM committed to resolve the issues within the next two to three days. The millers felt relieved to realize that the PM was aware of the severity of the malaise in which the textile spinning industry when the spinners pointed out that their industrial revival has moved from Aspirin stage to Antibiotic stage but the PM went one step further by stating that the textile spinning sector did not need antibiotic but major surgery.
The spinners insisted that they did not want handouts but to be put back into the same costs structure as they were in during 2004. They reiterated the Governments repeated commitments of consistent policies and level playing field, Adil added.
Source: The Nation (Pakistan)Addressing a press conference here after meeting with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, the APTA chairman said that they demanded 5 percent RandD facility for textile spinning sector as given to all other textile sectors. He said that the RandD was demented to be allowed on all sales, local and export as eventually most of our yarn is exported directly or after conversion. He said that loans of long term and short term may be converted to 7.5 percent mark up rates, repayable over 7 years, to cover leasing and banks lending as has been done for other textile sectors except spinning under the LTF scheme. He said that even the mills, which had not been able to keep up with their payments, should be allowed to avail of this facility.
The 25 per cent reduction in utility prices for textile spinning mills as has been done for the agricultural sector. Moratorium of 2 years for repayments of loans for them to settle down. A respectable bankruptcy / exit policy for those mills that cannot survive or have given up, he said pointed out of the demands.
He said that the National Assembly members noticed the demonstration and brought this to the attention of the speaker, 5 MNAs including Nazir Ahmed Jatt, Haroon Piracha, Naqai and Mushtaq Cheema, Federal Minister for Textiles came out to meet the protesting mill owners. He said that six representatives of APTA including Tanveer Shaikh, Chaudhry Akhtar, Khurram Khan, Feroze Gulzar and Nazir Piracha were asked to come into the NA and they met Cheema and then the Prime Minister and appraised them of their grievances.
Adil said that the ministers were advised that the spinning industry is closing and many more will close down if nothing is done and done soon.
The ministers were told that it was a real fear that close to 2 million people directly and indirectly employed by this sector would be rendered jobless very soon. He said that the ministers were advised that if spinning closes then the value added industry would also not be able to absorb the additional costs of importing yarn and producing its products eventually leading to their closure also. Cotton would be exported and yarn and fabric would be imported which was clearly not desirable given the already high levels of trade deficits.
He said that the PM also agreed to look into the balance demands. The PM committed to resolve the issues within the next two to three days. The millers felt relieved to realize that the PM was aware of the severity of the malaise in which the textile spinning industry when the spinners pointed out that their industrial revival has moved from Aspirin stage to Antibiotic stage but the PM went one step further by stating that the textile spinning sector did not need antibiotic but major surgery.
The spinners insisted that they did not want handouts but to be put back into the same costs structure as they were in during 2004. They reiterated the Governments repeated commitments of consistent policies and level playing field, Adil added.
http://yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=12874§ion=&country=Pakistan&p_type=General
Fate of textile sector hangs in the balance
LAHORE: Despite an unprecedented protest rally by textile spinners in Islamabad last week, fate of the textile sector still hangs in balance, as the government is keeping mum over the expected relief package to be announced in the upcoming Textile Policy.
Sources in the textile sector informed that Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has informed disgruntled textile millers that he has sent their demands to his advisor on Finance Dr Salman Shah for further consideration. However, the fact that the letter sheds no light on any immediate actions that the government will take has perturbed the millers.
Therefore, as the sources told Daily Times, the spinners have contacted other sectoral associations like Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PRGMEA), Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers Association (PHMA) and Pakistan Towel Manufacturers Association (PTMA), besides a few others, to organise another protest procession in Islamabad.
Sources in the textile associations said that other associations have not only appreciated the effort made by the disgruntled All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) members but also assured the leadership of All Pakistan Textile Association (APTA) to join their hands in future with them for any such venture to survive.
Meanwhile, it is also learnt on good authority that a large number of APTMA members have refused paying annual fee to APTMA, due to be paid by June 30. According to these circles, the textile millers want immediate resolution to their problem of rising costs and they are supporting the APTA leadership on this front.
Similarly, the stakeholders in the value-added sector, including readymade garments and hosiery, are also not happy with slashing down the Research and Development Fund to 3 percent from earlier 6 percent and they are also crying for immediate relief. They are ready to follow APTA’s footprints of protesting in front of the Parliament. It may be noted that the government is working on the Textile Policy right now and is expected to announce it by the second week of July.
Spinners are strongly pursuing the government to immediately cut their costs of production and have warned it of the trickling down of this crisis at their end. Government has shown seriousness over the issue but the textile millers still believe that it is not enough, as according to them, Dr Salman Shah is already aware of the problems faced by the textile sector. They further added that Dr Salman Shah’s attitude was not favourable to the industry and referring the issue again to him by the Prime Minister would bring nothing good out of him.
Sources in the textile sector informed that Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has informed disgruntled textile millers that he has sent their demands to his advisor on Finance Dr Salman Shah for further consideration. However, the fact that the letter sheds no light on any immediate actions that the government will take has perturbed the millers.
Therefore, as the sources told Daily Times, the spinners have contacted other sectoral associations like Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PRGMEA), Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers Association (PHMA) and Pakistan Towel Manufacturers Association (PTMA), besides a few others, to organise another protest procession in Islamabad.
Sources in the textile associations said that other associations have not only appreciated the effort made by the disgruntled All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) members but also assured the leadership of All Pakistan Textile Association (APTA) to join their hands in future with them for any such venture to survive.
Meanwhile, it is also learnt on good authority that a large number of APTMA members have refused paying annual fee to APTMA, due to be paid by June 30. According to these circles, the textile millers want immediate resolution to their problem of rising costs and they are supporting the APTA leadership on this front.
Similarly, the stakeholders in the value-added sector, including readymade garments and hosiery, are also not happy with slashing down the Research and Development Fund to 3 percent from earlier 6 percent and they are also crying for immediate relief. They are ready to follow APTA’s footprints of protesting in front of the Parliament. It may be noted that the government is working on the Textile Policy right now and is expected to announce it by the second week of July.
Spinners are strongly pursuing the government to immediately cut their costs of production and have warned it of the trickling down of this crisis at their end. Government has shown seriousness over the issue but the textile millers still believe that it is not enough, as according to them, Dr Salman Shah is already aware of the problems faced by the textile sector. They further added that Dr Salman Shah’s attitude was not favourable to the industry and referring the issue again to him by the Prime Minister would bring nothing good out of him.
Source : http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C06%5C27%5Cstory_27-6-2007_pg5_7
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