Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced that it has signed the multi-stakeholder Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, coordinated by the UN's International Labour Organisation (ILO). Krishan Hundal, Director of Sourcing at Marks ...
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A new crew is taking over the International Space Station after two NASA astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut successfully returned to Earth Monday night. After undocking from the space station, Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield and ...
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As the annual Supima Design Competition approaches, Supima has announced school participation from Kent State, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Rhode Island School of Design and the Savannah College of Art and Design. The students ...
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China’s chemical project in Kunming, capital city of Yunnan province, is still being discussed and evaluated for setting up a project for production of paraxylene or PX, company officials of China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) said ...
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After a sharp reduction in global shipments of new textile machinery in 2008 and 2009 as a result of the global financial and economic crisis in 2008/2009, deliveries of new textile machinery jumped in 2010 and 2011, in most cases to new ...
Everybody knows USTER STATISTICS – the globally-established benchmarks for the textile industry. But how are they used in practice, and how do they influence the fabrics and garments we all wear every day? To put it another way, what ...
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Coats Colour Express - the revolutionary web-based service providing the apparel and footwear industry with the world’s fastest and most colour accurate sampling facility for industrial sewing thread - has won a sought-after ...
ecVision, the leader in supply chain collaboration solutions for retailers and brands, announced the launch of the latest addition to their cloud-based offerings of software products aimed at helping solve these issues. ecVision Comply is ...
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Nokia's new Lumia 925 phone has an aluminium frame that functions as an antenna, and is lighter and thinner than the Lumia 920, but otherwise offers similar performance to its predecessor. Nokia revealed the Lumia 925 on Tuesday, hoping ...
Lift Bridge Brewing Company has launched its flagship beer Farm Girl Saison in four-packs of 16oz cans from Rexam. Rexam was chosen because their cans deliver durability, portability and light barrier properties that preserve freshness ...
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Spain-based Sargadelos has designed new limited edition bottle for Mondariz bottled water to commemorate the brand’s 140th anniversary. The bottle has a new design and is the result of the union of two Galician firms linked with ...
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Rieke Dispensing is adding two new small size packs to its range of airless dispensers. Developed to meet market requirements for convenient size packaging in handy, non-leak travel formats, the new Mini Airless variants have been ...
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Adhesives manufacturer Henkel has announced the launch of a new initiative ‘Food Safe Packaging Europe’, which has been aligned to enhance safety in food packaging. With its new information platform, the company intends to ...
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Sirane's new packaging film Sira-Flex Resolve has extended considerably shelf-life of celery and herbs during a Spanish producer's trials. It took celery, spinach, coriander and parsley to turn huge after a period of 44 days when held in ...
Global pharmaceutical company Pfizer has selected Canada-based Global Vision for worldwide deployment as its proofreading technology solution provider. According to Global Vision, the deployment will enable Pfizer to drive consistency, ...
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