Jute Fibres In Pakistan Are With Multifunctional Benefits
Pakistan’s exports of jute and other textile fibre had seen the highest growth in the United Arab Emirates, Gambia, and
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Rise In Energy Prices, A Final Blow To Pakistan’s Textile Industry: KP-TMA
Rise in energy prices will cause the textile industry to lose market share on the global market and force the
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Sizeable Import of EU Textile Waste Causing Ecosystem Issues
A significant amount of textile waste streams are imported into Pakistan and add to the nation’s already severe ecosystem problems.
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Pakistan’s Productivity Growth Low To Attain Required GDP Growth Rate
To estimate productivity growth in the country, the study used unique listed and non-listed data from 1,321 firms divided into
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SUES And NTU Promotes Bilateral Cooperation In Textile Engineering
“COVID-19 did affect the on site, face-to-face cooperation between China and Pakistan’s universities,” noted Shanghai University of Engineering Science (SUES),
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Textile exports needs modern spinning industry
Shaohui Zhang, head of a Chinese delegation, said Pakistan needs to modernize spinning industry to boost its textile exports. TexmaTech
Read moreTextile industry consumes more water than needed
Sustainable water consumption practices in textile sector to address the unruly patterns of resource consumption stressed the experts at a
Read moreNational Textile University designed a low energy consumption machine
NTU: National Textile University (NTU), Faisalabad has developed a machine with a new innovative heating and dying system that enable
Read moreFast collapsing textile sector
PAKISTAN’S textile industry is fast collapsing after the closure of around 100 textiles mills and their Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) are massively rising, causing more setbacks to the struggling economy.
Out of total of 250 textiles mills, these 100 mills located in Punjab and Sindh are feared to have added another Rs3 billion in the already piled up Rs630 billion NPLs by the end of June 2015, up 5.8 per cent from a year ago.
Though most of the increase in NPLs came from the
Aptma opposes withdrawal of zero-rating facility for textile sector
LAHORE: All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has urged the government to immediately remove four percent customs duty and five percent sales tax on the import of cotton in order to enable the spinning industry function properly.
"The destruction of local industry is not in the interest of growers as well as the downstream sector, and such temporary benefits will result in long-term losses," APTMA chairman said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
He said the export
Govt to fund innovation, research in textile sector
STAFF REPORT ISB: The Ministry of Commerce has planned to fund textile sector in research and innovation projects initiated by the National Textile University."The project would establish Textile Innovation Centre in the university, focus on the global demand for next-era fabric that includes technical and functional fabrics and would provide new initiatives in the field of design and value-addition," said Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan while chairing the third meeting
Govt to fund innovation, research in textile sector
STAFF REPORT ISB: The Ministry of Commerce has planned to fund textile sector in research and innovation projects initiated
by the National Textile University.
"The project would establish Textile Innovation Centre in the university, focus on the global demand for next-era fabric that
includes technical and functional fabrics and would provide new initiatives in the field of design and value-addition," said
Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan
Japanese show interest to boost Pak textile exports
STAFF REPORT ISB: The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is presently in discussions with the government of Pakistan about ways in which Japanese overseas development aid might be best put to use to assist this sector – of critical importance to the overall Pakistani economy.
JICA works closely with the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP), which has sent a request for assistance, according to Daisuke Fukumori, Deputy Director of JICA’s South Asia Division