The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) has requested the Government to reduce the excise duty on all man-made fibres and filaments, as also their raw materials from the current 12 per cent to 6 per cent. In a pre-Budget ...
Tags: man-made fibres, Apparel, Textile
Label and packaging material producer Avery Dennison has invested €7m to expand its plant in Gotha, Central Germany by enhancing its coating and laminated capabilities for self-adhesive label and packaging films.The company has made ...
Tags: Label, packaging material, Agriculture
Japanese retail packaging is as culturally unique to Japan as its language, traditional dress and customs, and it took four days at Tokyo Pack 2014 to begin to make sense of characteristic traits in pack construction and consumer ...
Tags: retail packaging, Packaging
Mexico is set to host the third edition of ExpoProducción, at the World Trade Center in Mexico City, from February 4th to 6th, 2015. ExpoProducción is expected to be the event of the year for everyone involved in apparel, ...
Tags: home textiles, apparel, Textile
HJ Heinz has opened its new $70m infant cereal production plant in Foshan City, Guangdong Province, China, a move that will create 200 new jobs. The new plant, which is the company's largest infant cereal production plant across the ...
Tags: Infant Cereal, Agriculture
Guangdong Jinming Machinery and Xi’an Jiaotong University have signed a contract of development for a blown film line control system based on specialised chips. The partnership will see the two parties develop a highly ...
Tags: blown film line, blown film
UK-based chilled pasta manufacturer Ugo Foods has launched a new packaging for its ‘Tipo Artigianale’ range. The new design sports a gold-coloured background that the company claims complements the premium quality of ...
Tags: Ugo Foods, packaging, Agriculture
Toyota Material Handling Australia (TMHA) has specially tailored a 2.5-tonne forklift to meet the specific site needs at a New South Wales Lime plant. Sibelco Australia commissioned a new diesel-powered Toyota 72-8FD25 forklift in October ...
Thailand's Ministry of Indsutry and Japan's Fukui Prefecture have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop cooperation among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of both countries. Fukui prefecture is known for its textiles, ...
Tags: memorandum, medium enterprises, Textile
Paul Leibinger, a company that provides integrated solutions for industrial marking technology and the printing industry, has made its new production hall operational for producing industrial inkjet printers. The company has moved into a ...
Tags: Leibinger, Inkjet Printers
In the third quarter of the current year, South Africa's seasonally adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 1.4 percent quarter on quarter, while the country's unadjusted GDP also increased by 1.4 percent compared to the same ...
Tags: gross domestic product, rubber products, plastic products
Taiwan's industrial production index in October this year increased by 8.97 percent as compared to October 2013 and was up 3.3 percent month on month, according to the country's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA). Meanwhile, Taiwan's ...
North China's Hebei province saw robust growth of photovoltaic products to Japan in the first ten months, local customs authorities have said. During this period, Hebei's PV exports to Japan hit 2.7 billion yuan ($440 million), up 180 ...
Tags: PV Exports, Sloar Cell
It’s the world’s largest manufacturer of carton packaging for the food and beverage industry. Toronto private equity firm, Onex Corporation, the largest buyout firm in Canada, has agreed to buy SIG Combibloc from Rank Group New ...
Bauma China, the largest construction machinery exhibition in Asia, began on Nov 25, in Shanghai, China. During the Bauma China 2014, Made-in-China.com is holding an event named “All-Ways Expo Sourcing” at ...
Tags: Global Sourcing Event