Danish smart textiles technology developer - Ohmatex has partnered with Danfoss PolyPower to supply PolyPower stretch sensors for wearable applications. The sensors combine PolyPower stretch sensing technology with an Ohmatex textile ...
Tags: smart textiles, PolyPower
Bangladesh government officials carrying out inspections at various garment factories have been provided with motorcycles, which will help boost their capacity to work. The 95 motorcycles were provided by the Improving Working Conditions ...
Tags: Garment, Ready Made Garment
The inaugural edition of AXIS, a new fashion and lifestyle trade event created for the current generation of trend-focused young women, is slated to take place from February 22nd to 24th, 2014. Drawing influence from art, music, street ...
Tags: Women Fashion, Apparel
A 27% plunge in American continent sales, led NYSE-listed marketer of outdoor sports apparel - Quiksilver, Inc., to report a steep 19% year-on-year drop in global revenues for the third fiscal quarter ending July 31, 2014. Net revenues in ...
Tags: Sports Apparel, outdoor apparel
Polaris, the U.S. manufacturer of off-road vehicles, has entered the rapidly emerging U.S. market for e-bikes by launching a mountain bike powered by an electric drive system developed by EVantage USA Inc. at Interbike 2014. Adam Rand, ...
Megaman is launching an International Project Division to help UK specifiers working in international markets. The division will be headed up by the company’s international project marketing manager, Ciaran Kiely, and his role will ...
Tags: Megaman, crown brass lamp
Furniture was the third fastest-growing category in August, building on the strong momentum of recent months, according to the latest BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor. UK retail sales were up 1.3% on a like-for-like basis from August 2013, ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
A street lighting initiative that was intended to reduce spending could cost Nottinghamshire Council £1.5 million, according to a new report. In 2011, the Conservative council decided to only fix faulty street lights, a regime known ...
Tags: Street Light, Lighting
Volvo Trucks is now launching I-Shift Dual Clutch, the first transmission on the market with a dual clutch system for heavy vehicles. Thanks to power-shift gear changes without any interruption in power delivery, torque is maintained and ...
Tags: Volvo Truck, Gearbox, Heavy Vehicles
According to news reports, Fort Wayne, Indiana-based stainless steel producers Valbruna Slater Stainless and Valbruna Stainless filed a petition Monday with the US International Trade Commission, seeking to block imports of certain products ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, stainless steel
Russian steelmaker NLMK has announced that in the January-August period this year its overall shipments of steel products by railway declined by one percent year on year to 7.65 million mt. In the given period, shipments by railway to the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel, Steel Product
In August this year, manganese ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland totaled 257,000 metric tons, decreasing by 4.22 percent from 268,321 metric tons in July and up 183.98 percent compared to the same month of 2013, according to the ...
Tags: Manganese Ore, Mineral
In July this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 22.76 million mt, increasing by 2.1 percent year on year and decreasing by 5.18 percent compared to June, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of ...
Matteo Renzi, Italian prime minister, and Enrico Rossi, president of the region of Tuscany, held talks at the weekend with JSW Steel chairman Sajjan Jindal, as the Indian giant considers investing in some of the country's steel assets. The ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
Vietnam's Ministry of Industry and Trade has announced its decision in the antidumping (AD) duty investigation of cold rolled stainless steel imports from China, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Taiwan. The ministry has decided that cold rolled ...
Tags: Stainless Steel, AD Duty