Kutay Saritosun is a textile engineer and sustainability aficionado dedicated to educating companies on producing more environmentally responsible products...
Lauren Hartzenberg 23 Apr 2021
The topic of sustainable textile development will be discussed by a panel at the upcoming Zone 22 Rotary Africa Centennial International Conference...
Cotton is considered one of the world's greatest poverty alleviating crops, with 150 million people worldwide relying on it for income...
Cobus de Bruyn 27 Jan 2021
South Africa's GDP numbers are much better than expected. In fact, the 66% quarter-on-quarter, seasonally adjusted, annualised figure is better than even the best industry expectation...
Maarten Ackerman 9 Dec 2020
The Sustainable Fashion Awards celebrate South African designers, retailers and personalities leading sustainable, ethical, circular and regenerative practices in the fashion industry...
A local, SA designer-led fashion industry has the very real potential to make a significant contribution to our national GDP...
Lucilla Booyzen 28 Sep 2020
Adidas and Parley for the Oceans have marked the fifth anniversary of their partnership, focused on addressing the global plastic crisis and its contribution to marine pollution...
For years, apparel brands have promised to police their supply chains to root out unsafe conditions and worker abuse...
Jason Judd and Sarosh Kuruvilla 8 Jun 2020
The online marketplace links corporate buyers with local producers of masks...
Regulations giving effect to the government's commitment to assist ailing industries and workers through the Unemployment Insurance Fund are being gazetted...
Tania Broughton 8 Apr 2020
Sportswear brand Puma has teamed up with the BA Fashion course at London-based design school Central Saint Martins to explore more sustainable technologies in textile manufacturing...
Primedia Outdoor recently extended its offering with the construction of five new Prime Towers in the heart of Eswatini (Swaziland)...
Issued by Primedia Outdoor 4 Mar 2020
The City of Cape Town says it is committed to supporting the local clothing and textile sector by providing grant funding to strategic business partners...
Recently Zara introduced a sustainability pledge. But how can Zara ever be sustainable? As the largest fast-fashion retailer in the world, they produce around 450 million garments a year...
Anika Kozlowski 8 Aug 2019
The striking textile and knitwear designs conceived by South African golden boy Laduma Ngxokolo are not simply stylish collectables, they're vehicles of cultural preservation...
Lauren Hartzenberg 16 Apr 2019
Combine two rows of fine teeth that lock together, a slider and a tab, and all of a sudden you have a quick way of securely closing a bag, jacket or pair of pants - a zipper...
François Lévêque 8 Apr 2019
A multimillion-rand Black Industrialist textile firm, Africa Bespoke Apparel (ABA), is ready to launch on 22 January 2019 in Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal. A 100% black-owned company operating in the textile, clothing and footwear sector...
It's not just the smuggling of rhino horn, narcotics and other substances that is big business in South Africa. Although not as high profile, illegal clothing and goods trafficking also come with a hefty price tag...
The University of Johannesburg (UJ) recently presented its African Stitch Secondary Co-operative Enactus project at the Enactus South Africa National Competition...
The word 'pollution' may conjure up images of dirty waterways and smog-filled city skies but seldom is it realised that the clothing on our backs may be the product of a dirty and dehumanising supply chain...
Lauren Hartzenberg 13 Mar 2018
Here's a list of some of the top African business leaders to follow on Twitter...
The arrival of digital textile printing in Cape Town can revive the local clothing and textile manufacturing industry and salvage some of the job opportunities...
I am often asked what it is that prevents clothing and textile manufacturers from breaking into the international market. There are several answers to that question...
Christian Gerling 19 Jun 2017
A new trend among cyber espionage threat actors have been uncovered by Kaspersky Lab researchers - they are using tools available on the web for research purposes...
Mauritian business representatives descended on Durban on Monday, and will be in Johannesburg later this week, to promote the country's trade opportunities in textile manufacturing, accessories, jewellery, and agricultural products...
Mace Promotions, an international supplier of promotional merchandise, focuses on job creation and growing the local textile industry through collaborative partnerships within Ekurhuleni...
According to iAfrica.com, South Africans joined activists in over 80 cities around the world who issued a global call for the world's biggest jeans manufacturer Levi's to 'detox' and eliminate all hazardous chemicals from its clothing and supply chains.
A&E, the South African subsidiary of US company American & Efird, has been bought by Cape Town based sewing thread manufacturer ACA Threads as a going concern, which will see the 55 staff members from its Epping premises incorporated into the 86 staff at ACA Threads Brackenfell factory during the course of 2011. The combined turnover of the two companies is around R70-million per year.
The team tasked with coming up with a rescue plan to save the Frame Vertical Pipeline, the textile manufacturing arm of the Seardel group, may consider splitting the group to keep certain key assets in operation.
Mathabo le Roux 26 May 2009