According to the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS), the Vietnamese textile and garment industry is changing very rapidly and the impacts of these changes have been recognized globally. The stormy access to technology, big data, and social media not only makes Vietnam famous in other countries but also makes Vietnam the second largest exporter in the world. garment industry with a total export turnover of about 39 billion USD in 2021.

Notably, today's young Vietnamese are starting to deeply engage in fabric/garment production with a long tradition. Ancient ways of fabric production, but with new techniques and green technology become increasingly unique in a world surrounded by Metaverse NFT.

This has also shown the full potential of technology, digitization in parallel with the sustainable development of Vietnam's textile and garment industry.

Vu Duc Giang, Chairman of the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association, said that 2022 is the year when the Vietnamese textile and garment industry recovers and regains its form after the impact of the pandemic thanks to the efforts of businesses and support measures. Government support.

Fabric Discovery Library will display more than 20,000 fabric samples from the US, Germany, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam...​

“We need to recognize the urgency for the formation of linkages in the supply chain of the textile industry after the Covid-19 pandemic. With the current situation, Vietnam has not yet developed strongly in the textile stage and does not have a reputable portal on the textile and garment market for businesses, domestic and foreign investors to monitor regularly. ", emphasized Mr. Vu Duc Giang.

In order to realize the goal of gradually completing the supply chain, the value chain of Vietnam's textile and garment, gradually overcoming the weaknesses, STS decided to launch 02 centers, namely Vietnam Textile Information Center (VTIC) and Letter Fabric Discovery Institute (VFDC) to bring together fabrics and associated information from the world's major fabric suppliers and regularly updated market information.

VFDC is the place to display more than 20,000 fabric samples from the US, Germany, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam, etc. customers can read them like books on the shelf. With VFDC's services, businesses will save time, money, and human resources for the fabric sourcing process, and have more resources to fulfill export and R&D orders.

With the establishment of the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Information Center (VTIC) and the Fabric Discovery Library (VFDC), STS expects that Vietnamese textile and garment enterprises will be empowered for their goals of transformation and sustainable development. of enterprises in particular and Vietnam's textile and garment industry in general.

Accompanying the launching event of the 2 centers is the Fabric Discovery Festival held in 2 days from October 12-13, 2022 at VFDC Center - A07-08 Sarica Building, D9 Street, An Loi Dong Ward, District 2 , TP. HCM. The show has the participation of experts from Frontier, Made2 Flow, The Interline, Hanin Enterprises, KHA AR.

Ha Linh