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CITI Has Requested The Government to Reduce The Excise Duty
Dec 8, 2014The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) has requested the Government to reduce the excise duty on all man-made fibres and filaments, as also their raw materials from the current 12 per cent to 6 per cent. In a pre-Budget ...
Tags: man-made fibres, Apparel, Textile
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TEXPROCIL Has Welcomed The Enhancement of Duty Drawback Rates on Textiles
Nov 24, 2014Chairman of the Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council (TEXPROCIL) has welcomed the enhancement of duty drawback rates on textiles, by calling them positive and growth oriented. The government had earlier announced the new rates of duty ...
Tags: Cotton Textiles Export, Textile
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Instrument Testing of Cotton Lint Helps Farmers Realise Better Prices
Nov 17, 2014Speakers at the recently held International Cotton Advisory Committee's (ICAC) 73rd Plenary Meeting were of the opinion that, instrument testing of cotton lint will help farmers realise better prices and that it was imperative. This ...
Tags: cotton lint, instrument testing, Apparel
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Waitrose Urges More Focus on Separation of Recycling Waste
Oct 27, 2014Speaking exclusively to Packaging News at the third European Bioeconomy Stakeholders’ Conference, Quentin Clark, head of sustainability and ethical sourcing at Waitrose, said the high-end grocery retailer wanted consumers and local ...
Tags: Recycling Packaging, Packaging
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Cevital Files a Binding Bid to Acquire Lucchini's Steelmaking Plant
Oct 22, 2014Algerian food processor Cevital has filed a binding bid to acquire Lucchini's steelmaking plant in Piombino in Italy's Tuscany region, as announced by Lucchini on October 20. Lucchini added that special commissioner for Lucchini, Piero ...
Tags: food processor, Algerian Group
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Insteel reported fourth quarter and full year revenue increased
Oct 21, 2014Insteel Industries, Inc. reported Thursday net earnings for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014 of $4.6 million, up from $2.3 million in the same period a year ago. Net sales increased 19.3 percent to a record high $117.1 million from $98.2 ...
Tags: Insteel, Net earnings
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The Drop Was Heavily Weighed by an Expected Plunge in Volatile Aircraft Orders
Oct 16, 2014Orders to U.S. factories fell in August by the largest amount on record, but the drop was heavily weighed by an expected plunge in volatile aircraft orders. A key category that tracks business investment plans posted a small increase, ...
Tags: Factory Orders
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Economists Downwardly Revised Their World Trade Growth Estimate for 2015 to 4 Percent
Oct 8, 2014Economists at the World Trade Organization (WTO) have downwardly revised their world trade growth estimate for 2015 to 4 percent from the previous estimate of 5.3 percent. For 2014 also, the WTO has reduced its world trade growth ...
Tags: world trade growth, GDP growth
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CURF Awarded Funding to Five Clemson Researchers to Further Develop Clemson Technologies
Oct 8, 2014The Clemson University Research Foundation (CURF) announced Thursday that it has awarded funding to five Clemson researchers to further develop their Clemson technologies through a newly established program, the CURF Technology Maturation ...
Tags: CURF, Commercialization, Electronics
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Tetra Pak's Dairy Creating Opportunities and Challenges for The Packaging Sector
Oct 2, 2014The global food processing and packaging company said producers in both developed and emerging dairy markets need to address the careful balancing act required to ensure sustainable business success. Tetra Pak's Dairy Index reveals that ...
Tags: dairy products, food
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The Hohenstein Institute Now Offers Allergen-Resistance Testing as an Accredited Service
Oct 1, 2014Germany based, The Hohenstein Institute now offers allergen-resistance testing of mattress and bed covers using real dust mite excrement as an accredited service. In the test, all components of the encasing or what is called the textile ...
Tags: Certification, Textile, Mattress
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Cal-Maine Foods Reported Its First-Quarter Profit Surged From Last Year
Sep 30, 2014Cal-Maine Foods, a producer and marketer of shell eggs, reported that its first-quarter (Q1) profit surged from last year, with boost in net sales due to higher volumes and average selling prices. Quarterly net sales were $356.94m, an ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, shell eggs
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Every Can Counts Has Helped to Ensure That Over 80% of Waste Is Recycled
Sep 23, 2014Due to be introduced on January 1st 2015, the new waste regulations mean that businesses, including shopping centres and retail outlets in England and Wales, will be required to separate waste paper, metal, plastic and glass for collection. ...
Tags: Can Counts, Shopping Centres, Printing
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Moody's Announced The Outlook for The European Steel Industry Will Remain Stable
Sep 22, 2014International credit rating agency Moody's has announced that the outlook for the European steel industry will remain stable until 2015, despite anticipated capacity utilization and profitability improvements. According to Moody's report, ...
Tags: steel industry, Moody's
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Frontiers Will Open a Satellite Office at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany, New York
Sep 17, 2014Graphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. Frontiers, a manufacturing company that began at the University of ...
Tags: Frontiers, Expand, Electrical
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