A woman operates an embroidering machine at the TAL factory in Dongguan. The company has invested heavily in new equipment to meet its buyers’ demands and tough environmental regulations. Photo: Handout A woman operates an embroidering machine at the TAL factory in Dongguan. The company has invested heavily in new equipment to meet its buyers’ demands and tough environmental regulations. Photo: Handout
A woman operates an embroidering machine at the TAL factory in Dongguan. The company has invested heavily in new equipment to meet its buyers’ demands and tough environmental regulations. Photo: Handout
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Can Chinese manufacturers ever be clean, green and profitable? Garment factories search for the answer

Wastewater recycling is just one ‘innovation’ China’s clothes producers are adopting in a bid to keep pace with buyers’ and government demands

Sidney Leng
Sidney Leng

Updated: 2:55pm, 20 Jul, 2018

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A woman operates an embroidering machine at the TAL factory in Dongguan. The company has invested heavily in new equipment to meet its buyers’ demands and tough environmental regulations. Photo: Handout A woman operates an embroidering machine at the TAL factory in Dongguan. The company has invested heavily in new equipment to meet its buyers’ demands and tough environmental regulations. Photo: Handout
A woman operates an embroidering machine at the TAL factory in Dongguan. The company has invested heavily in new equipment to meet its buyers’ demands and tough environmental regulations. Photo: Handout
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