The Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association, as per VietnamBiz, has set a goal of ‘going green’ with a plan by 2023, reducing energy consumption by 15 per cent, water consumption by 20 per cent, transforming Vietnam’s textile and garment industry, and at the same time building 30 international brands.

Viet Vuong – a leading Vietnamese apparel manufacturer – has reduced its fabric wastage to under 2 per cent, resulting in fabric cost savings of almost 3 per cent as a result of implementing Coats Digital’s IntelloCut solution. The implementation has also made Viet Vuong witness 1.13 per cent Bill of Material (BOM) savings.

US swimwear imports have gone up by 39.83 per cent in Jan.-Apr. ’22 period to US $ 816.78 million. This value is almost same as the entire 2020 values as it took just four months of 2022 for US buyers to get back to normal in swimwear sourcing, while the same is going to cross the entire 2021 value in not more than one month from April!