The garment industry in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam, is in need of additional skilled workers in order to achieve the target to become a garment supply hub for the southern region and the nation’s fashion centre by 2020, ...
Tags: garment industry, Skilled Workers, Apparel
The United States Department of Labour (DoL) has found widespread violations by employers in paying wages to workers in the Southern California garment industry. In fiscal year 2014, DoL’s Wage and Hour Division conducted 221 ...
Tags: unpaid wage, minimum wage, Apparel
Coats, one of the leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts companies, has announced the opening of a global services business in Vietnam, on the eve of completing 25 years of operations in the country. The new dedicated ...
Tags: Coats Global Services, Textile
The Australian Government should call for an update to the international fuel stockpiling rules and take responsibility for holding emergency fuel stocks, the chief executive of the Australian Trucking Association Stuart St Clair said. ...
Tags: Truckers, Fuel Security
Two-thirds of the world’s largest companies are reporting exposure to water risks, some of which have potential to limit growth. The news comes amid mounting shareholder concern around the business impacts from water scarcity, ...
Tags: Water Risk, water management data
Most electronics industry professionals agree that the industry is more vigilant and doing a better job of keeping counterfeit electronic components off the plant floor than they were just five or 10 years ago. But they also say that ...
Tags: Electronic Components, Electronics
China makers are continuing to slash pricing for camera modules used in smartphones, with pricing expected to drop as much as 15-20% on year during the second half of 2014. Demand for the modules has slowed down in China following ...
Tags: Handset Camera, camera modules, smartphones
After decades of running their supply chains with internal enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, enterprises have seen the shift to a global economy and supply chain — requiring a myriad of external business processes that their ...
Tags: Supply Chain, Economy, Electronics
Sustainability has been a concept which regional and national trade associations in Europe has been encouraging coatings producers and their suppliers to adopt to ensure that the coatings sector move in a more environmentally friendly ...
Tags: Marine coatings, coatings
Low-priced, high-specification handsets are continuing to be focus for handset vendors in China, with Xiaomi, Coolpad and Huawei Device expected to push segment in 2015 in order to combat competition from international vendors. ...
Canada-based food packaging company CKF will be producing its Earthcycle line of agricultural trays at its Hantsport, Nova Scotia facility. The move follows CKF's acquisition of Earthcycle Packaging in May 2013. The first ...
Tags: CKF, Production, Packaging
MADE-BY has launched its latest tool the ‘MADE-BY Wet Processing Benchmark’, which it said, supports brands in understanding and reducing the environmental impact of their supply chains. The MADE-BY Wet Processing Benchmark ...
Tags: MADE-BY, 'Wet Processing Benchmark', Textile
In the 21st century, society is increasingly aware of the environmental and social performance of supply chains and consumers. Twenty-two metals and mining companies and 32 national and regional mining associations and global commodity ...
Tags: Metals, Mining, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Nestle has unveiled a plan to invest MXN700m ($52.9m) over the next six years, in a bid to increase milk production in Mexico. Of the total MXN700m ($52.9m), the company will spend MXN400m ($30.2m) to finance production and infrastructure ...
‘All About Sustainability’ zone returns to Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics – Autumn Edition 2014 fair again, expanding this year by 148% with a total of 32 exhibitors taking part. Only one month away, Intertextile ...
Tags: Apparel Fabrics, Intertextile