Tag: Printex
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Struggling Akosombo Textiles sends home 600 workers
About 600 workers of the Akosombo Textiles Limited have been asked to go home as a shortage of raw materials has hit the company in recent weeks. The company has also closed down its new plant which has spinning and weaving departments due to lack of money to run the facilities. The company, which used…
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Trade Ministry starts tax stamp for textiles on September 1st
Traders of substandard textiles may have to redirect their businesses as the Trade Ministry launches a major clamp down starting September 1st 2018. From September, producers and importers of textiles would have to affix a stamp on their products. This is to avoid seizure by an anti-piracy taskforce put together by the Trade Ministry and the…
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Textile workers call off ‘demo’ against pirated textiles
Local Textile workers have put on hold, their planned protest over pirated goods which was slated for today. According to the textile workers, the move has been prompted by the Ministry’s readiness to engage them in addressing their concerns. But the Chairman of the Concerned Workers of the Textile Industry, Ebenezer Asumadu on Wednesday told Citi…
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Textile workers to protest over pirated products on Thursday
Local Textile workers will on Thursday (March 9, 2017) embark on a protest to express their displeasure over what they say is the Trade Ministry’s inability to stop the smuggling of pirated goods onto the local markets. According to the workers, the development has rendered local textile companies uncompetitive while they have also been compelled…