Between 18th and 22nd February, Hall 14.1 at Feria de Madrid hosted the staging of the most comprehensive overview of the world of Spanish fashion creation and design, based on the staging of the fifty-seventh edition of MERCEDES-BENZ ...
Tags: Designers, Mercedes-Benz, Fashion Week
As the International Apparel Federation (IAF) has a strong focus on building bridges in the fashion chain, the decision has been made to include Individual Members in the membership portfolio. Expanding IAF’s membership to include ...
Tags: IAF, fashion chain, Apparel
On behalf of the entire Domestic Garment Industry, CMAI extends its sincere thanks to the Hon. Finance Minister, Sh. P. Chidambaram, for having heard our pleas to Remove the Excise Duty from Branded Readymade Garments. The Industry, as ...
Tags: CMAI, Branded Garments, Textiles
Bangladesh readymade garment (RMG) accessory manufacturers are eyeing emerging markets, including Japan, South Africa, Russia and Myanmar, as there is a decline in exports of apparel accessories to the traditional markets such as the EU and ...
Tags: RMG, readymade garment, emerging markets
The Indian textile industry, employing over 100 million people directly and indirectly has been looking for various schemes and assistance in the Union Budget 2013-14 to regain its global competitiveness which faced the worst ever crisis in ...
Tags: textile industry, Union Budget, SIMA
Cristal announced that it will increase prices on all of its anatase and rutile TiONA and Cristal titanium dioxide (TiO2) products sold in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Asia Pacific sub-regions ...
Tags: Cristal, TiO2 products, Price
More than 100 cotton/man-made fibre textile mills have closed since 2009-10 in India, as per the data available with Textiles Commissioner. This was stated by Minister of Textiles, Mr. Anand Sharma, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, ...
Tags: India, Textile Mills, 2010
The Union Budget 2013-14 presented by the India’s Finance Minister P Chidambaram has brought cheer for the textile and garment industry as the Central Government has accepted their long standing demand for removal of excise duty on ...
Tags: India, Textile Sector, Garments
Confederation of Indian Textiles Industry (CITI) has welcomed the Central Budget 2013-14 presented by the Finance Minister, Shri P. Chidambaram in Parliament as a positive package for accelerating the recovery of the textiles industry. In a ...
Tags: CITI, Central Budget, Textile Sector
Annual direct investment in fiber to the home (FTTH) networks will reach $4.7 billion by 2017 and total investment in FTTH over the next five years will be $18 billion, according to a recent report by RVA LLC, titled North American Fiber to ...
Tags: FTTH, RVA LLC, Advanced Broadband Review
Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) president Karen Leibovici and Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) president Bernard Lord announced a joint protocol on the siting process of wireless antenna systems. ...
Tags: Federation of Canadian Municipalities, CWTA, wireless antenna systems
European meat suppliers are selling a low quality meat known as desinewed meat (DSM) to UK sausage companies, and are using misleading labeling such as Baader meat and 3mm mince to represent the product. DSM is type of mechanically ...
Tags: meat suppliers, low quality meat, DSM
Researchers have developed a new packaging featuring an electronic sensor circuit, which can determine if the food is safe to eat. This technology can be used as an alternative to ‘best before dates’, which is often a cautious ...
Tags: packaging featuring, electronic sensor circuit, Food Waste
At the recent SPIE Photonics West 2013 trade show in San Francisco (5-7 February), Luminus Devices Inc of Billerica, MA, USA, which makes PhlatLight (photonic lattice) LEDs for solid-state lighting applications, announced that production ...
Tags: Luminus, LED, LEDs produce
Speaking on February 27, Li Xinchuang, deputy secretary-general of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA), stated that overall Chinese demand for iron ore in 2013 will reach 1.11 billion mt, up 5.7 percent year on year. The average Fe ...