In response to the Greenpeace Detox Campaign, Aldi one of the top ten discounters worldwide, has pledged to ban all hazardous chemicals from their textile and footwear supply chain by 2020. “Aldi scored poorly when Greenpeace tested ...
China has invested 382 billion yuan (62.2 billion U.S. dollars) in northeast regions since the government announced an action plan to assist the area's sagging economy last August. The money has been used on 60 projects, two of which are ...
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Toys and children’s clothing are lagging behind other industries when it comes to safety, according to the Stericycle European Recall and Notification Index. The toy industry continues to lead all consumer goods in terms of volume ...
Tags: children's clothing, toy industry, Toys
About 2/3 of the nation's corn crop is out of the field, while farmers have caught up with the average pace with soybean harvest, according to Monday's USDA-NASS Crop Progress report. Eighty-three percent of the nation's soybean crop has ...
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National 4 emission standards for diesel will be carried out at the end of this year, and there is seen as a big change for light truck industry, and some minor light truck makers are facing great challenges. And Wuzheng Aochi sees this as ...
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The global aluminium market has seen a remarkable improvement in its fundamental outlook, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a research note Thursday. "The improvement in market balances has perhaps been most outstanding for aluminium, ...
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Japan's leading electronics makers are falling into two groups. Some companies, including Hitachi and Panasonic, have recovered from the industry slump triggered by the global recession that started in 2008 and exacerbated by the 2011 ...
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There is likely to be concentration of PV systems installed around China due to government-offered feed-in tariff subsidies in the second half of 2014, and consequently Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers are expected to ...
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Food-finding tests in five lemur species show that fruit-eaters may have better spatial memory than lemurs with a more varied diet. The results support the idea that relying on foods that are seasonally available and far-flung gives a ...
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They said the party was over, but Australia's giant resources sector is surging into a two-horse race between iron ore and coal, with the latest numbers revealing that there is still fire in the belly of the boom, thanks mainly to sustained ...
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Physicians in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the Maxine Dunitz Children's Health Center launched a pilot study in which mothers' breast milk is analyzed to determine whether premature infants are receiving the correct amounts of ...
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U.S. health officials would like every American aged 6 months and older to get a flu vaccine, and on Thursday they produced statistics they think should convince everyone to get vaccinated. "In the 2012-2013 flu season, vaccinations ...
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With specifications lists that punch well above their weight and each offering vast interior acreage, you'd think the mid-size segment had already shown us everything it could offer – but that was before the launch of the all-new ...
Toyota vice president Mitsuhisa Kato has confessed the brand had pursued volume to the detriment of quality, but insisted a fresh Toyota New Global Architecture Plan (TNGA) will fix those issues while saving up to 30 per cent in production ...
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Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has requested the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) to open a new institute for printing and packaging technology in Pakistan. The union has suggested that the institute should ...