The Walter Reiners-Stiftung (Foundation) of the German Textile Machinery Industry has again honoured three successful junior engineers. In the focus of attention of the young engineers is actually the key future issue lightweight ...
The use of intellectual property rights (IPR) is one of the most important -- yet largely unfortunate -- developments of globalization and has severely hindered scientific development by restricting the proliferation of knowledge. That ...
In a significant textile industry move, the RITE Group and NICE (Nordic Initiative Clean and Ethical) have signed a joint Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which will see the two parties cooperate closely to more effectively address ...
Tags: textile industry, RITE, NICE, MoU
Bremen CIF Index reports that the price indices remained stable by the end of the reported week while the daily New York Cotton Futures had been slightly more in motion. The fluctuations could have been caused by adapting positions to news ...
Tags: Bremen CIF Index, New York Cotton Futures, cotton price, cotton, textile
Shahzad Ali Khan, Chairman All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Punjab, has rejected outrightly the load management plan by the Energy Management Cell (EMC), putting textile industry on six hours a day load shedding while giving a ...
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A seminar and exhibition is being jointly hosted by I&G Cohen Ltd and Axion Consulting at the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Manchester on Tuesday 13th November 2012. Company is thrilled to announce that confirmed speakers ...
A first of its kind study conducted by the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine found standard control curtains were 8 times more likely to be contaminated with the superbug vancomycin resistant enterrococus (VRE) than experimental ...
Hon'ble Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee inaugurated the second PET plant of the Dhunseri Petrochem & Tea Limited having a capacity of 2, 10,000 TPA at Haldia; West Bengal. The said plant together with the First PET plant of ...
Tags: PET plant, Oerlikon Barmag, Dhunseri, textile
What sustainability means in the cotton value chain can't be determined by any individual, sector or nation. Rather, it should be defined by finding the common ground that exists among all of the stakeholders. That was the guiding concept ...
Tags: sustainability, cotton value chain, stakeholders, ICAC
Monetary issues aren't usually the first thing that come to people's minds when they think about sustainability, but no matter how socially and environmentally friendly an industry is, if companies can't make money, it will collapse. ...
Tags: Monetary issues, sustainability, contract defaults, anticipated sessions
Genetically modified (GM) crops like Bt cotton do more harm than being thought of, according to an expert from the Small Planet Institute at Massachusetts in the US. At an event organized alongside CoP-11 (XI Conference of the Parties ...
Tags: Genetically modified crops, Bt cotton, bollworm, Rollefson, textile
Bombay Dyeing now offers the all new Citronella Range of Bed Linen which is embedded with the special Mosquito Repellent Finish to fight the night nasty's so you can sleep peacefully. These 100% cotton bed sheets reduce the number of ...
Tags: Bombay Dyeing, Bed Linen, Citronella range, tested&safe
LoveWool UK (LWUK) looks set for another fantastic year with the wool lovers of the United Kingdom snapping up the chance to collectively celebrate 'real' wool. The free-style event, which will run during the Campaign for Wool's Wool ...
Tags: wool celebration, wool, Yarns
Vastra 2012, an international textile and apparel fair that aims to provide Indian manufacturers a global platform for business promotion, is going to be held from November 22 to 25 in the royal Indian city of Jaipur. The ...
Tags: textile, apparel, fibre, fashion, Vastra 2012, trade fair
Those who attack the cotton industry for its perceived impact on the environment will need to have their facts straight, thanks to a major research project undertaken by Cotton Incorporated: a life-cycle assessment (LCA) for cotton. ...
Tags: cotton, Cotton Life-Cycle Project, ICAC