The production of fashionable textiles from fair-trade organic cotton through a controlled and transparent process chain. The idealistic project which started in 1991 has long since been transformed into a successful enterprise.
Today, Remei AG is coordinating 48 businesses, which means that we have a responsibility for approximately eighty to a hundred thousand people, above all over 8000 farmers in India and Tanzania. Numerous projects have been completed successfully, such as building some 2560 biogas plants, 2500 fuel-efficient smokeless stoves, 20 village schools, and a training centre in India and one in Tanzania to promote organic cultivation.
It will going to celebrate its 20th jubilee.
All of which stands as proof of the single most important fact – that it is indeed possible to profitably produce and sell cotton while observing the precepts of fairness, ecology, and economy. We have made a lot of improvements – however, one thing remains the same:
Patrick Hohmann, CEO Remei AG: Our vision: Ready to wear fashion, ready to take responsibility.
We would like to thank all our customers, partners and business associates for their belief, idealism and daily commitment to making the success of bioRe possible and we hope for your continuous support.
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The first International Fair of domestic cotton products began in Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan.
The fair is intended at generating higher global awareness regarding the country’s accomplishment in agricultural sector, experience sharing with world’s top-most manufacturers and deliberating with foreign firms and enterprises on cooperation issues.
Inaugurating the fair, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov highlighted cotton as one of the key export-oriented agricultural product of the country.
He said each year textile industry base of Turkmenistan if further strengthened and several new businesses have been established and projects commissioned during the past few years. As a result, the country is able to gradually enhance its volume of cotton production.
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The fourth edition of the Silk Mark Expo organized by the Chennai chapter of Silk Mark Organisation of India (SMOI) opened on December 7 in Chennai.
The aim of the expo is to generate awareness regarding the Silk Mark, a quality assurance label, and to promote the silk industry. The exhibition will continue till December 12.
Several authorised users of the quality mark from 16 States are exhibiting their silk products prepared from Tussar, Muga, Mulberry and Eri varieties of silk through over 60 stalls set up at the Expo, Mr. PM Pandi, Deputy Director (Insp.) and Senior Executive, SMOI Regional Development Office, said.
In a move to generate awareness amongst buyers and to help people learn about genuine silk, a number of contests are being organized during the event whereby people would be asked to identify samples of mixed silk, non-silk and pure silk. Besides, silk testing facilities are also being offered at the Expo, Mr. Pandi said.
Funded by Central Silk Board, Union Ministry of Textiles, SMOI is trying to generate awareness regarding the Silk Mark which is intended to help the customers to identify genuine silk.
Mr. Pandi said SMOI allows the use of Silk Mark on the products of the members only after they have established credentials as producers, retailers and exporters of authenticate silk. Presently, 400 authorised Silk Mark users are registered with the Chennai chapter of SMOI.
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Annoyed by the abrupt announcement made by the Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) to increase the gas load-shedding from the earlier three days per week to four days a week, several textile industries in Pakistan’s Faisalabad have shutdown.
To protest against the SNGPL’s decision, over 600 industries, majority of them being value-added and export-oriented textile units, have closed. Besides industrialists, the protest is being supported by textile associations.
As claimed by the textile industry of the north zone, a steady rise in load-shedding coupled with low gas pressure is adding to the woes of the entrepreneurs as well as public. Moreover, the daily wage workers associated with the industry now would also have to endure a four-day per week redundancy.
Christmas export orders are very important for textile industry as the EU and the US buyers place bulk orders for made ups, textiles and garments during this period to meet requirements of domestic retailers and other customers who look forward to shop for their winter apparels in the month of December.
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The Industrial Fabrics Association International announced that due to the uncertainty of the completion of construction at the Suntec Center, and the continuing softness of the global economy, it will postpone its IFAI Expo Asia 2012 trade event originally scheduled for 26-28 June at the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre.
According to IFAI's conference management vice president Todd Lindemann, "This decision will allow us to evaluate the date and venue for the event. We expect the second edition of IFAI Expo Asia to be bigger and draw larger attendance, and we are carefully planning for that success."
IFAI Expo Asia 2011 had a strong premiere 22-25 March 2011 in Singapore at the Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre. The combined specialty fabrics trade exhibition and symposiums covered the spectrum of the cutting-edge developments occurring in the industry.
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Plexus Cotton Limited reports that NY futures have moved considerably lower since our last report on November 17, with March dropping 518 points to close at 91.30 cents.
The bearish wave, which has been gathering momentum in recent weeks, became potent enough to breach the "Chinese Wall" of support, taking prices to new 14-month lows. The move was all the more impressive since it happened in the face of very strong US export sales, totaling more than 2.5 million statistical bales over a 3-week period. But as the old saying goes - "it's not the news itself that matters, but how the market reacts to the news"!
Interestingly, it was the speculators that were responsible for the selling, as they either bailed out of long positions or added new shorts in reaction to a technical breakdown in cotton and all the uncertainty surrounding the sovereign debt crisis. In the week of November 22, during which the market dropped 10 cents in just three days, large and small speculators sold 11'386 contracts net, while the trade (+10'707 contracts) and index funds (+679 contracts) were net buyers.
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Bemz, the Swedish company that allows customers to personalize their IKEA sofas and chairs announced the addition of "Loose Fit – Urban" 100% washed linen slipcovers to the successful Loose Fit range. The "Loose Fit – Urban" style will be available as slipcovers on the Bemz website for the Karlanda, Karlstad, Klippan, Henriksdal, Nils, Klappsta and Kivik furniture ranges beginning early 2012.
The Urban look is characterized by an edgier, more metropolitan influence in contrast to its kinder rural counterpart, the "Loose Fit – Country Style". Bemz's new slipcovers take their cues from the latest in interior design trends: subdued and elegant with a sophisticated, slightly looser fit. The seams are purposely apparent, with every aspect of the cover cut and sewn by hand using extreme precision and care.
"The Loose Fit collection allows our customers to transform an IKEA sofa using both color and form in an exciting way," says Lesley Pennington, CEO and founder of Bemz. "It will be great to see how the Bemz fans adopt this new urban look and make it their own."
The Loose fit collection, now consisting of the Urban and the popular Country styles, are manufactured using exclusive Rosendal Pure Washed linen from Belgium, a country with a centuries-old tradition of flax cultivation and processing.
The fabric is pre-washed to give it that soft, vintage-like, wrinkled look. The slipcovers are available in a variety of colors: Absolute White, Soft White, Unbleached, Medium Grey, Brown, Sage and Lavender. With the latest additions, there are over 180 fabrics to choose from on the Bemz website.
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