Egypt Textile News Summaries

EGYPT: A Rise in Cotton Prices by 3.71 Percent and 99.11 Percent,
The annual publication of the prices of materials and industrial products by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) on commodity prices during 2009

EGYPT: Egypt`s Arafa Buys Stake in Italian Clothing Firm
Egyptian garment maker and retailer Arafa Holding AIVC.CA has bought a 35 percent stake in Italian textile firm Forall Confezioni S.p.A

EGYPT: Steadfast support to promote ailing textile and spinning industries
The steadfast support from the Egyptian Government and the European Union (EU) have triggered a wave of modernisation and restructuring in Egypt’s textile and...

EGYPT: Textile workers victory gives strength to workers movement
After a one-week strike and occupation in September 2007, 27,000 workers at Ghazl al-Mahalla textile mill in northern Egypt scored a spectacular victory. In December 2006 this textile mill was the centre of workers' militancy, when a

EGYPT: Egytex2007- Best meeting point for textile manufacturers, importers
The only International Textile Exhibition dedicated to manufacturers of yarn, fabrics, apparel, home textiles and machineries ‘Egytex2007’ is scheduled...

EGYPT: Employees protest for higher salaries
In a largest protest by public sector employees, about 2000 civil servants protested in Cairo on Sunday to demand increase in wages. They want their salary in line with the staff of Finance Ministry, who they say earn more for the same work.

EGYPT: Agreement for exporting textiles without paying trade tariffs
Israeli Trade and Industry Minister Eli Yishai visited Egypt on Tuesday to sign the new percentage agreement known as Qualified Industrial Zones Agreement with Egyptian Trade and Industry Minister Rachid Mohamed Rachid.

EGYPT: Israel and Egypt sign deal to boost textile exports
A deal is signed between Egypt and Israel to lower the threshold of Israeli components required in Egyptian products for them to be exported to the United States duty-free. The deal is aimed at boosting exports from so-called Qualifying

EGYPT: Mahalla textile plant workers celebrate victory
27,000 workers of Mahalla textile plant paraded a symbolic coffin of the factory boss, who was forced to resign as part of the deal ending the dispute. They brought drums and homemade placards, set up a sea of tents in the

EGYPT: Textile workers strike ends
The weeklong strike at Egypt's largest textile mill was resolved with the government rushing in to find a solution but the underlying causes of the series of strikes over the past year remain.The 27000 employees at the Misr Spinning and Weaving Factory in

EGYPT: Agitating textile workers in no mood to relent
The strike by 27,000 employees of the state owned Misr Spinning and Weaving mills in the Nile Delta town of Mahalla el-Kubra entered its second day today. Seven thousand workers controlled one of Egypt's biggest textile mills on Monday. On the first day itself the company has lost 10 million pounds.

EGYPT: Cotton growing area is on the decline
The government needs to take serious steps to recover the reputation of its cotton crop by increasing production, introducing new cotton varieties, reducing costs and implementing a clear pricing policy.

EGYPT: Textile workers protest against privatizations
About 100 workers have hidden in a concrete loading bay around the side of a major Cairo postal office who say that they will stay put until their demands are met.

EGYPT: Striking workers halt textile production
A country where more than 25% of the population works in industries as workers has seen a spate of strikes in the

EGYPT: China invited to invest in Egyptian textile sector
Textile industry can be a good choice for Chinese companies to invest in Egypt as the cost of production is much lower and logistics facilities are better.

EGYPT: Ekoteks opens textile lab branch in Egypt
Turkey’s only laboratory Ekoteks accredited by international bodies, and selected as the reference lab by the EU, has opened a branch at Cairo in Egypt...

EGYPT: Textile workers go on strike, causing chaos
Thousands of workers in Egypt have gone on strike in some of the country's largest textile factories, causing chaos; BBC radio reported on February 05.

EGYPT: Egypt’s textile sector facing troubles
The lives of most laborers in Egypt’s textile sector, have never been easy. Zane Al-Abdeen Zaki, 35 with four children, lives on LE 250 a month, but then disaster struck when he lost two fingers in an accident with one of the machines...

EGYPT: Egypt, Turkey take steps to boost their textile industries
Egypt and Turkey took further steps to boost their industrial cooperation, with a view to help their textile industries to compete with East Asia...

EGYPT: Textiles committee protests against setting up Chinese industrial zone
The textiles committee at the Egyptian Federation of Commerce Chambers has sent a memorandum to Prime Minister Ahmad Nazif to protest against setting up a Chinese industrial zone for readymade garments in the 10th of Ramadan City, east of Cairo...

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