With 8 months still to go for the Japan International Apparel Machinery and Textile Industry Trade Fair “JIAM 2016 Osaka”, 80 per cent of the exhibition space of has already been booked, the Japan Sewing Machinery Manufactures ...
Good dynamics across all segments helped sales at German apparel marketer Tom Tailor Group climb 3.8 per cent year over year for the first half ended June 30, 2015. “Sales increased 3.8 per cent €441.5 million in the reporting ...
Tags: apparel, textile industry, fashion industry
Several luxury timepiece manufacturers have tried to merge the worlds of classic watches and smartwatches, but one company may be taking things a bit too far. Nico Gerard, a California-based luxury watch company, created a Swiss timepiece ...
Tags: watches, smartwatches, luxury watch
China's refinery throughput rose 4.3% year on year to 43.54 million mt or an average 10.30 million b/d in July, preliminary data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Wednesday. The July rate was down slightly from 10.59 million ...
Tags: Refinery, oil demand
How large a single residential solar system can be? Tigo Energy says, 176kW. The company and PV installer Renewable Energy Service (RES) has partner to install one of the world’s largest residential renewable energy microgrid ...
Tags: solar-battery, renewable energy
As flash LEDs became a standard spec in smartphones instead of a market gimmick to sell phones, many LED manufacturers are vying after this potential market. The earliest players in the market was Lumileds, followed by Osram and later ...
Tags: Flash LED, LED market, LED
The Portavin Group, which bottles and packages wine, considers the entire life of its product including design, recyclability, and end-of-life management. The company is a provider and user of reusable and recyclable packaging, primarily ...
Tags: bottles, packages wine
Global Brands Group Holding Limited, which owns long-term rights to the Sypder snow sports brand, reported sales declined 5 percent to $1.28 billion for the six months ended June 30 largely due to pruning of under performing brands and ...
Tags: apparel, footwear, fashion accessories
Belgium-based Martens Brouwerij has launched a new beer brand using digitally printed PET bottles which come to life using a smartphone app. Called Dagschotel, the brand features the faces of several Belgian TV actors. When the app ...
Südpack Verpackungen has announced a new digital printing process which helps customers quickly personalise their packaging. It offers clear colour gradients, brilliant colours and sharp outlines. Managing partner Johannes ...
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BASF is investing in the expansion and flexibilization of its production facilities to manufacture chelating agents at its site in Ludwigshafen. By increasing the production capacity, the company is responding to the rapidly growing global ...
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To help create the strongest and lightest composite infrastructure materials, Dow Polyurethanes has introduced VORAFORCE TP 1200 series to the North America market. The novel polyurethanes solution enables fast, energy-efficient pultrusion ...
Tags: Dow Polyurethanes, EMEA market
The global intumescent coatings market size is expected to reach USD 1.11 billion by 2022, according to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc. Construction industry growth is anticipated to drive the market growth of intumescent coatings. ...
PPG Industries’ coil and building products group has introduced DURAFORM™ BP coating, a next-generation polyester coil coating engineered specifically for building product manufacturers. Designed for one-coat application over ...
Tags: BP coating, coil coating, Polyester Coatings
Essentra Specialty Tapes has introduced several double-sided tapes which, among other beneficial properties, will adhere well to UV coated material, such as boxes, cartons, posters, P.O.P. displays, lightweight forms, easels, shelf tabs, ...