The European Commission (EC) has confirmed disbursement of €840,000 from the European Globalization Adjustment Fund (EGF) to help 300 workers made redundant in the textile sector of the Spanish autonomous community of Valencia to find ...
Tags: Textile
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced seven winning student teams of EPA's People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) phase II awards for innovative and sustainable designs to help solve today's complex environmental ...
Tags: EPA, Certification
The famous Snoboy brand of fresh produce is launching into the retail marketplace after an absence of several years. Amerifresh, owner of the Snoboy brand, announced the reintroduction at the recent National Grocers Association annual ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
AkzoNobel has completed the expansion of its Industrial Coatings site in Songjiang near Shanghai in China, doubling annual production capacity and creating the company's biggest plant for packaging coatings in the world. Work started in ...
Tags: Industrial Coatings, Coatings, Construction
The Asian naphtha industry agreed Thursday that carbon disulfide, or CS2, levels in the light distillate have to be reported for cargoes originating from Sikka, India, and those from Western arbitrage flows into the region. Currently, ...
Tags: Naphtha Industry, Carbon Disulfide
UK onshore explorer Egdon Resources said Friday it could have 18 Tcf of gas initially in place in shale gas reserves in its licenses within the Bowland-Hodder shale sequence in northern England. That is equivalent to around 510 billion ...
Tags: shale gas, UK gas consumption
The Amish Craftsman, a Houston furniture store specializing in custom, hand-made Amish furniture has announce that they will be holding their 4th annual Meet the Builder Day on May 3rd. This year, the event will include five Amish craftsmen ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Textile exports from Turkey are expected to increase owing to the gradual recovery of the economy of the European Union (EU), as well as entry into newer markets such as the US, South America and North Korea, said Uludag Textile Exporters ...
Tags: Textile Exports, clothing industry
Bangladesh's Parliamentary Standing Committee on Textiles and Jute Ministry has recommended increased allocation to the sector in the next fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014, for the overall development of textile and jute sectors. The ...
Tags: Textile
John Lewis Partnership plc published its annual report for 2014 today. Gross sales for John Lewis totalled £4.1b (+7.5%), with revenue of £3.3b (+7.4%) and an operating profit £226.1m (+4.3%). The online channel ...
Tags: economy
Solar photovoltaic (PV) demand from the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region is set to grow 50% on year in 2014. Between 2014-2018, annual PV demand will nearly triple as the MEA region becomes a key market for the global industry, according ...
Eight billion people will use smartphones and 100 billion terminals will be interconnected via the internet by 2025, according to Chinese ICT multinational Huawei. This is an eight-fold increase in the number of smartphone users – ...
Tags: Computer Products, Huawei, Smartphone
Rumors had it that Apple requested two battery suppliers, Taiwan based Simplo Technology and Shenzhen Desay, to challenge the limit for flexible thin battery in order to respond to iPhone 6’s larger screen size and one-third of iPhone ...
Tags: iPhone6, Lighter Battery, Lithium Battery
Foton released its annual report on the evening of April 16. In 2013 the company achieved revenues of 34.15 billion yuan, decreased by 16.65%, net profit of 763 million yuan, decreased by 43.62% . The company said that in 2013 sales of ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
Alacero, the Latin American steel association, has reported that in the first two months of this year apparent finished steel use in Latin America and the Caribbean totaled 10.8 million mt, up one percent year on year. The highest increases ...
Tags: Finished Steel, crude steel