At the close of the 16th Round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, chief negotiators reported that they had achieved the goal set for the round: to put the negotiations on an accelerated track toward conclusion of a ...
Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd. and its affiliates have announced a price increase of Tipaque titanium dioxide (TiO2) by US$300 per metric ton in the Asia-Pacific region effective as from April 1st, 2013. The price increase is necessary to ...
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Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is planning to invest Rs. 434.48 billion (about US$ 8 billion) in petrochemical projects over the next four years. The petrochemical investment is part of the about US$ 27 billion investment planned by ...
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CRAiLAR Technologies Inc., which produces and markets CRAiLAR Flax fiber The Friendliest Fiber On The Planet, reported a net loss for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2012 of $3.1 million or $0.07 per share compared with a net loss of ...
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REDTAG, the leading value fashion and home stores chain in GCC, announced that it has launched 'rt rewards,' its first ever loyalty program, leveraging Capillary Technologies' cloud-based suite of Intelligent Customer Engagement Solutions. ...
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Attendees of this year's Apparel Tech Conference in Los Angeles, California will hear how Pendleton Woolen Mills, an American heritage brand, has streamlined and optimized their business processes with the implementation of YuniquePLM. The ...
China International Petroleum & Petrochemical Technology and Equipment Exhibition (cippe), a regular gathering in petroleum and petrochemical industry and a high-quality exhibition which gets the authentication from UFI in Mainland China, ...
Tags: Textile, Cippe2013, Petroleum&Petrochemical
After the unions and employers failed to reach an agreement for yet another time, unions like CCOO and UGT have announced their decision to protest across Spain. The wage agreement between employers and employees of the Spanish textile ...
Global O-Xylene market showed downward trend in the week ending March 9, 2013. In Korea, O-Xylene prices went down last week, due to dull downstream buying sentiment in the region and lower downstream product prices. In the initial days ...
Speedo has purchased the vrMockshop visual merchandising software from Centric Software, Inc. Centric provides product lifecycle management (PLM) software for retail, apparel, footwear, luxury and consumer goods companies. vrMockshop, ...
Tags: Speedo, vrMockshop visual merchandising software, Centric Software
AQS QuiltWeek features over 300 quilts from around the world. Among the five special exhibits are included two international collections, one from the National Quilt Museum, and two curated and hosted by the American Quilter’s ...
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The exports of textiles and apparel from Spain increased by 8.9 percent year-on-year to €10.423 million in 2012, which is a new record, according to the latest data released by Consejo Intertextil Español (CIE or Spanish ...
Apparel Export Promotion council (AEPC) shall once again be participating in International Fashion Fair, Tokyo scheduled from 17-19 July, 2013 along with SRTEPC, TEXPROCIL and WOOLTEXPRO and other EPCs as organizing partners under the aegis ...
AMSilk, a spin-off of the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), has produced the world's first artificial silk fiber that is entirely made of recombinant spider silk proteins. The fiber’s tensile strength is comparable to that of ...
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A unique exhibition celebrating and emphasizing the versatility and utility of wool as an important fibre in today’s world has opened at London’s Somerset House. Titled as 'Wool House', the ongoing exhibition aims to ...
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