According to the Yorkshire Post, clothing manufacturer Skopes plans to grow its exports into the Chinese market. The third generation family-owned company, based at Cross Green in Leeds, plans to double its business in the next three years, helped by the export of suits with 24 carat gold and platinum woven into the pinstripe, already being bought by Chinese businessmen at £10,000 a time. The firm hopes to…

Leeds textile manufacturer Hainsworth has racked up a £1 million order for China’s booming piano manufacuturing industry and expanding pool and snooker markets.

Coronation Street’s Kevin Webster may be Britain’s most famous ‘engineer’ but while manufacturing in the UK continues to fly under the radar in terms of public perception it continues to make a massive contribution to the economy. The sector employs 2.5 million people in the UK and in June 2010 generated £22 billion in exports.

There are huge opportunities for further growth, according to speakers at the recent conference organised…

One of Yorkshire’s oldest textile companies has invested in a brand new manufacturing plant in Guiseley, Leeds. The move is part of a growing trend towards bringing overseas production back to the UK.

Laxtons specialist yarns, both Worsted and Fancy, are now being manufactured at the new production facility, believed to be the first factory of its kind to be set up here in the UK for 25 years.

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MORE than 20 new jobs have been created at a Yorkshire school uniform company thanks to a strategy combining traditional garment tailoring and niche internet retailing. Specialising in school uniforms, Perry Uniform, based in Bramley, Leeds, has grown significantly over the past two years and is on target to achieve annual sales of £2.5m.

The Business Desk reports that Perry Uniform recently relocated to Bramley in a £300,000 self-funded…

Specialising in quality textiles for 226 years, Pudsey-based Hainsworth boasts a unique success story with the eighth generation of the family still heading affairs.

Much of the North’s prosperity is rooted in its rich heritage of textile manufacturing. Despite the challenges of recent years, some companies such as Hainsworth are proving able to adapt and carve out a place for themselves in 21^st century commerce. From its origins in…