EURATEX is Contributing to Coordinated Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
EURATEX provides tools to European suppliers and manufacturers to find each other and facilitate the production of protective masks and gowns (PPE and surgical).
Author Archive for: Dunja
Entries by Dunja Hoejenbos
New Platform Helping Apparel Factories Produce PPE
On this platform, factories that are now producing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) are listed in order to facilitate engagement with prospective buyers.
Summary Webinar ‘Impact of COVID-19 on Textile & Apparel Industry’
Summary Webinar ‘Impact of COVID-19 on Textile & Apparel Industry’ by Mr. Kashif Waheed (General Manager Projects at Pegasus Consultancy). On May 7, 2020, Pegasus Consultancy in collaboration with the International Federation of Apparels (IAF) and Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers & Exporters Association (PRGMEA) successfully organized a webinar on the topic ‘Impact of COVID-19 on […]
Mustafa Gultepe Addresses IHKIB’s International Trade Partners
In his speech, IHKIB President Mustafa Gultepe draws attention to the importance of solidarity.
Gerber Technology Brings Together Industry Suppliers to Increase Production and Availability of PPE
COVID-19 represents an unprecedented challenge for the world, requiring everybody to work together. In response, Gerber Technology created a Global PPE Task Force and has since brought together more than 600 manufacturers, technology partners, and industry coalition partners to make PPE products available broadly around the world. Leading companies, such as Coats for threads and […]
In Memoriam Philipp Moll – A Life for the Technology of Sewing
“Further automation of sewing processes is the only chance of survival for the German and the Western European apparel industry”, said Philipp Moll in an interview article with German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. That was in 1995. Spoke it and set out to prove – the joining of two-dimensional cut parts into three-dimensional shells […]
COVID-19 Joint Industry Statement
The IAF has co-signed a COVID-19 joint industry statement along with close to 60 other industry associations.
Open letter to G20 Employment Ministers from leaders of global industry organisations
We, the leadership of major global industry associations, call on G20 Employment Ministers, ahead of their extraordinary meeting on 23 April 2020, to urgently remove bottlenecks to economic relief and increase financial assistance to enterprises worldwide in response to the COVID-19 crisis. The International Organisation of Employers (IOE) joins with the International Air Transport Association […]
Employers, workers and major brands join ILO on call for action
The IAF has endorsed a call to action in which employer and worker organisations and leading brands and retailers working with the ILO commit to pay for finished goods and goods in production.