Paytm, India’s leading online marketplace, is set to help local Gujarat handloom and handicraft artisans to sell their products via its ecommerce platform and grow their business globally. Paytm will showcase Gujarat State Handloom ...
Tags: Paytm, online marketplace, handloom, handicraft
US chemist David McGarvey, Ph.D, at the Army's Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and his team of researchers who are a part of a team led by the Natick Soldier Systems Center, is developing ...
Tags: army uniforms, protective suits, Self-Decontaminating Suits
Spain based Inditex Group, which has notable fashion brands like Zara in its portfolio, said its sales in the twelve months to January 31, 2015, rose 8 per cent year over year. Sales in fiscal 2014 grew 8 per cent from the previous fiscal ...
Tags: fashion brands, apparel market
The Union government has launched a new institution, Handicrafts & Carpet Sector Skill Council to promote skill development among artisans, craft persons and workers at grassroots level. The Council will operate from New Delhi and ...
Tags: Handicrafts, skill development, Carpet
The two-day Global Cotton Summit Bangladesh-2015, being jointly organised by the Bangladesh Cotton Association (BCA) and Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA), will take place on 20-21 March, 2015, in Dhaka. The summit will be ...
Tags: Global Cotton Summit, Textile Mills, Cotton
Cotton cultivation in southern African country of Mozambique will get a boost from Brazilian technology, under a project signed by the Mozambican Cotton Institute (IAM) and the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC). As part of the ...
US-based Toray Plastics has developed PWX5, a metallized Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene (BOPP) film that can be used as a high-performance inner moisture and oxygen-barrier web in gas-flushed applications. While one side of the film ...
Tags: BOPP, carbon fibers, Packaging
Packaging company Multivac will display new packaging solutions for the seafood and fish products at Seafood Processing Europe in Brussels. Some of the machines to be displayed by the company are a thermoforming packaging machine for ...
Representatives of nine top Myanmar based apparel factories went to Paris and Berlin last month in order to get a better understanding of European markets and European buyers’ requirements. “The participants were able to gain ...
European supplier of pre-press services to the flexo market, the Miller Graphics Group, has installed a ThermoFlexX 80-S imager with an investment of close to €1m at its new 800 square metre factory in Bejaia, Algeria. The factory ...
Tags: Imager, flexo market, Printing
At 85.6 per cent, the proportion of supply chains exposed to elevated, high or severe risk of natural disaster is highest for the apparel sector, as it has a high proportion of manufacturing and raw material sourcing based in politically ...
Tags: BSI, apparel sector, raw material
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has cut duty on spirits and cider by 2% and froze duty on wine and slashed the price of beer by a penny a pint for the third year now. In the budget speech presented in the House of ...
Starbucks and China’s leading food and beverage producer Tingyi Holding have signed an agreement to manufacture and expand the distribution of the US company's ready-to-drink (RTD) products throughout mainland China. As per the ...
Marques de la Mota, a licensed alcohol importer and distributor based in Los Angeles, has launched Don Juan Tequila, a baroque style fine sipping premium tequila, in the US. Don Juan Tequila is made from 100% blue agave and produced in ...
Tags: Oscar Mota, alcohol, Food
Thailand-based polyester and yarn manufacturer Indorama Ventures will be acquiring a 94.91% stake in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) polymers maker Bangkok Polyester for an undisclosed amount. A producer of PET polymers in Rayong, ...