The Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles Association (SMART), as part of its continuing effort to provide leadership in the clothing and textile recycling industry, is taking several positive steps which focus on the issues surrounding ...
Tags: Clothing Collection Bins, Apparel
The project encompasses the company's entire product portfolio and website and will roll out across this year, with new packaging for Driver's 340g retail jars of pickled onions, red cabbage, beetroot and piccalilli already on the shelves. ...
NILIT, a Global leader in manufacturing of nylon 6.6, has announced that it has acquired the Texturing & Covering facility of Scalina in Sao Paulo. "The Latin American Market and especially Brasil are a critical growth region for NILIT," ...
Tags: Covering Facility, Textile
The Swiss yarn manufacturer Hermann Bühler AG is the very first company worldwide to receive a certificate for sustainable textile production in line with the certification system “Sustainable Textile Production (STeP) by ...
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Cisco is building a router for the Internet of Everything, the company's initiative to connect the billions of devices – or 99 percent of the world – that it claims?isn't already connected. As disclosed at?Cisco Live?three ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Why is maintenance of plant and machinery so important? A sufficient, effective maintenance program will make plant and machinery more reliable. Fewer breakdowns, whether just a minor setback or a more serious failure, will mean less ...
Tags: Machine Maintenance, Processing Machinery, Manufacturing
The 52nd DORNBIRN-MFC continues to be geared towards the European/American lead event in the field of man-made fibers. The capability of the man-made fibers world to manage the future challenges is underlined by topics like sustainability, ...
Tags: Textile, man-made fibers, fibers
Microsoft needs "to do a better job of telling the world" about Windows 8's features as a "fully-fledged" HTML 5 application platform, the company's general manager of platform strategy, Tim O'Brien, said today. Speaking at a session on ...
The White House has added Instagram to its social media portfolio with President Barack Obama posting a photo of his family taking off on a trip to Africa. "The First Family takes off for a three-country trip across Africa #MarineOne ...
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Among the items that caught my attention during "Las Vegas Jewellery Week" was the number of exhibits from producers or marketers of jewellery-making materials. This has been going for the past few years but there were three exhibitions in ...
NSF Sustainability, a division of global independent public health organization NSF International, has verified an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for a broad variety of nylon carpet styles and colors manufactured by Mannington ...
Tags: NSF Sustainability, Carpet Tiles, EDP
The Marble Institute of America’s Accreditation Program has experienced its most active quarter of growth since the program’s first three months in existence. Activity in the commercial arena has been especially encouraging and ...
NSF Sustainability, a division of global independent public health organization NSF International, has verified Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) for J+J Flooring Group’s Kinetex flooring product and Invision brand modular ...
Tags: J+J Flooring, NSF Sustainability, Environmental Product
Fans of Australian heavy metal band AC/DC get ready to rock: Karlsberg Brauerei has completed the launch its newly designed cans for AC/DC Premium Pils. Under each tab is an individual code that fans can use to buy attractive devotionalia ...
Packaging and paper group Mondi has launched a campaign in a bid to increase the awareness of the recyclable paper based bags among European retailers and consumers. The latest announcement comes on the heels of a market study that ...
Tags: Mondi, Paper Bags