by Sentex | Jun 23, 2025 | Partner
Large-scale textile production at Domitexka (www.domitexka.sn) is slowly gaining momentum. On 20 May 2025, a delegation from German machine manufacturer Saurer (www.saurer.com) visited the company. In this context, a concept for the employability of the new workforce...
by Sentex | May 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
On the Colobane market, an animated square in the heart of Dakar, second-hand clothes merchants negotiate daily amid hundreds of clothes called “feugue-diaye”, the term in wolof langage for second-hand clothes imported by the thousands of tons into Senegal...
by Sentex | Feb 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
Traditional hand weaving has existed on the African continent for centuries. However, the example of Senegal shows the plight of the craft in recent decades. Cheap clothing from the Far East, second-hand clothing from Europe, unfavourable working conditions and a lack...
by Sentex | Feb 16, 2024 | Partner
GIZ has successfully completed the certification of the organic fertilizer Organova as part of a project with the local producer Elephant vert. The certification was done by Ecocert and is a big step forward for the complete value chain of organic cotton. Organova...
by Sentex | Jan 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
In order to continue and consolidate the significant progress already made, several operational workshops for the revival of the textile sector have been organized on a regular basis since December 2020. The dialogue brought together around twenty participants,...
by Sentex | Dec 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
The partners, well known in the national and international textile ecosystem, are working in partnership with GIZ. Aissa DIONE, known worldwide in the sector for its luxury products, will reinforce its production locally in its Dakar workshops, with various equipment...
by Sentex | Oct 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
The German textile association (Gesamtmasche) is optimistic about its forecast for the upcoming organic cotton harvest for the 2023/24 season. Together with its partner Sodefitex, it expects a yield per hectare of up to 850 kg. This is a breakthrough for the...
by Sentex | Jun 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
Manobi, a Senegalese company, has developed an internationally recognized software that provides traceability of the entire textile production chain – from the fiber to the shirt in the store. The sustainability aspect can be presented in a positive and...
by Sentex | Jun 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
GIZ technical assistance to the Domitexka fully-integrated textile plant in Kaolack and the NSTS factory in Thies has produced satisfactory results for these two industries, which have been struggling in recent years. Thanks to the involvement of international textile...
by Sentex | Dec 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
In 2020, German Cooperation started his support to the cotton and textile sector in Senegal. An initial two-year project with Sodefitex, Senegal’s only cotton ginning plant, and the FNPC (National Federation of Cotton producers), provided training and equipment...
