The ongoing electricity and gas load shedding in Pakistan’s Punjab province has forced the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) to consider various options, including shutdown of the industry. At a general body ...
Tags: electricity, gas load shedding, textile
In the first half of the year, the strong performance of the Renault and Dacia brands in Europe, driven by the success of Clio, Captur, Duster phase 2 and Sandero, enabled the Group to offset the sharp slowdown in its main emerging markets. ...
Tags: Renault, Dacia, Auto Parts
When the UK government's plans to introduce aversion packaging on cigarettes began its fight with Big Tobacco at the beginning of June, a battle broke out in Australia too. It took two weeks for the Australian government to quash it. By ...
US-based pork producer Smithfield Foods has closed its Tar Heel, North Carolina pork plant, following an ammonia spill caused by the collapse of a water tank. Over 2,000 workers were evacuated from the hog slaughtering plant. Details on ...
Residents in Tangshan are very familiar with the concept of oversupply. A severe glut in the steel industry has put many jobs at risk in the northeastern Chinese city that counts the metal as one of its primary exports. But the oversupply ...
Tags: Housing Market, Crashing Down
Although recent industrial accidents coupled with other issues have raced challenges for the Bangladesh textile industry, which is the second largest exporter of readymade garments (RMG), the Government of Bangladesh and the textile ...
Clean Clothes Campaign launches a Review of its Urgent Appeal cases of 2013 and beginning of 2014. The interactive map shows how Clean Clothes Campaign supports the survivors of the Rana Plaza and many other workers in their struggle for ...
Tags: Clean Clothes, garment industry
One year ago today, 17 ready-made garment (RMG) industry global brands and retailers and 2 global unions and their national RMG affiliates signed an unprecedented agreement to make RMG factories safe in Bangladesh. One year later, 172 ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories
The Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Government of Germany, will be holding the first Round Table on the Textiles Industry, and BMZ Minister Gerd Müller has invited participation of representatives of textile ...
Tags: Textiles
Speakers at a high-level event to commemorate One Year after Rana Plaza, reiterated their commitment to working together to ensure safety and rights for workers in the ready-made garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh. “It has been a ...
Tags: Garment Units
On the anniversary of the tragic collapse of Rana Plaza in Dhaka (Bangladesh), the Foreign Trade Association (FTA) highlights the efforts undertaken by European retailers and importers to contribute to the improvement of safety conditions ...
Deyu Agriculture Corp. (the "Company"), a Shanxi Province, China-based vertically integrated producer, processor, marketer and distributor of organic and other agricultural products made from corn and grains, today announced its financial ...
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The first vessels of 2014 carrying iron ore to the US Steel Gary sheet mill in Indiana arrived this week, but the mill is still operating at limited capacity, the company said Tuesday. A spokeswoman for US Steel said four boats carrying ...
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Steel production in the US Great Lakes region tumbled 6.8% last week after falling 9.8% the week before, the American Iron and Steel Institute reported Monday. The Great Lakes region produced 565,000 st of steel in the week ended ...
Singapore's Nanyang Technological University has developed conventional aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) with record-breaking figures-of-merit (FOMs) for frequency and breakdown performance [Kumud ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics