Textile Exchange is excited to announce the release of the chemical snapshots series. This collection of guides is designed to help brands, retailers and manufacturers understand why the textile, apparel, & footwear industry is ...
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DESIGNER YANG MINGJIE: CREATING THE PERFECT USER EXPERIENCE From Munich to Shanghai In 2001, Yang graduated from Zhejinag University and was awarded a full scholarship from the WK Foundation to study abroad in Germany. After ...
The lighting equipment sector has come a long way. The long-standing debate on whether lighting is a design object or an electrical appliance is over. Today lighting equipment has an unquestionable role. Lighting stands for safety, ...
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The latest declared glass recycling rate in South Africa is now, according to The Glass Recycling Company (TGRC), 40.1%; a 230% growth in annual volumes recycled since the inception of TGRC six years ago. Evidence of a shift in consumer ...
China should take advantage of relatively low coal prices and import more to satisfy electricity demand in its most populous provinces, instead of relying on domestic coal, which is expensive to transport, according to a Chinese government ...
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The re-branded ‘single serve’ range includes RapTray. Rap said its RapTray is the world’s first hermetically sealed, modified atmosphere carton food tray. According to Rap, made of lightweight board and a film laminate, ...
Shri P. Chidambaram, Shri Manikam Ramaswami, Chairman, TEXPROCIL said “The Budget has addressed many of the issues faced by the textiles industry”. The Budget has restored the “Zero duty excise duty route” for cotton ...
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Harold Fitch, the man charged with overseeing Michigan's 15,000 oil and gas wells, told a House subcommittee Friday that growing hydraulic fracturing operations in his state have not caused any groundwater contamination or any other serious ...
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Illuminating the bright future of the lighting industry, the fifth edition of HKTDC Hong Kong International Lighting Fair 2013 (Spring Edition) will be staged on 6-9 April 2013 in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, and the ...
CakeBoxx Technologies, developer of the CakeBoxx doorless intermodal shipping containers, has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with The Valspar Corporation as its coatings supplier for a new line of containers. Valspar will ...
For laboratories looking for a safe, rapid and affordable sample concentrator for biological samples, Genevac reports on the significant operational benefits of their miVac sample concentrator compared to 'blowdown' evaporation systems. ...
LAS VEGAS — The mattress recycling issue is heating up. The International Sleep Products Assn. is sponsoring an educational session on the controversial issue at the Las Vegas Market. Set for Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 3 p.m. in World ...
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A majority of consumers interviewed by the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) confess to having little knowledge of genetically modified foods, but would still support labelling on products. Almost nine in every ten of the consumers ...
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Ventura, Calif.-based outdoor apparel retailer Patagonia Inc. has selected Sweden-based Polygiene AB's Polygiene antimicrobial fabric finish for use in its Fall 2013 Capilene base layers and trail running base layers. Polygiene technology ...
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BNamericas reported that workers at US based Southern Copper's Cuajone and Toquepala copper mines and its Ilo smelter will begin an indefinite strike on December 24th 2012 to demand higher wages. Mr Ricardo Juárez Union ...
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