SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association released a report today titled, “Plastics Market Watch: Plastics in the Fast Lane,” that anticipates an increased use of plastics in automobiles as economic and demographic forces ...
Lavazza will introduce its first Slow Food-accredited coffee in UK next week, marking its debut in the segment. Marking the 14th edition of The World's 50 Best Restaurants, where Lavazza is a sponsor for the fourth year, Etigua will be ...
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Berghaus, an outdoor brand said it has joined the international Bluesign sustainability system, which is part of an ongoing programme designed to eliminate harmful substances from the firm’s supply chain. “Berghaus will do ...
Tags: Berghaus, outdoor brand, textile mills
Online shopping has arrived in North Korea, though it's as isolated from the rest of the world as the country itself, and the vast majority of North Koreans lack the technology to use it. The state-run site, called Okryu, offers a range ...
Tags: Online shopping, Okryu
Partnering with Toray Fluorofibers and fire garment manufacturer Majestic Fire Apparel, Victaulic, a producer of mechanical pipe joining technology developed a leading-edge foundry worker safety coat. According to a Victaulic press ...
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CGS, a leading global provider of business applications, enterprise learning and outsourcing services is participating at Texprocess in hall 4.0, booth E-07. CGS will showcase its BlueCherry Shop Floor Control system, which is designed ...
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The tide is slowly starting to turn in favor of the American furniture industry in terms of sales, but manufacturers and retailers continue to face numerous wide-ranging challenges. The American furniture industry is at a turning point. ...
Jordan is facing a crisis of worker shortage in its garment factories, as local Jordanians are shunning the sector, as benefits offered to them are not attractive vis-à-vis those offered to foreign workers. The Jordanian garment ...
Tags: textile industry, work environment, Apparel
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has demanded that German apparel and footwear brands should promote workers’ rights in their global operations by publicly disclosing names of factories producing their products. “Supply chain ...
At a mobile phone shop along Moi Avenue in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, dozens of customers queued patiently at the counter waiting to be served. Most of them were to buy a mobile phone. Among the various kinds of mobile phone displayed ...
Tags: Huawei Honor, mobile phones
In previous posts, I examined the high-tech industry in significant detail by picking a representative sample of leading systems, software, and semiconductor companies. Taken as a group, the selected firms serve the full range of ...
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Favourable government policies, low wages, shorter sea route and growing garment exports make Myanmar an attractive option for Indian textile entrepreneurs, says Rajesh Kumar Shah The garment sector in Myanmar has grown enormously since ...
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Tech giants Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe have agreed to a new settlement in a lawsuit regarding employee poaching, Reuters reports. The four-year old litigations began when tech workers out in Silicon Valley accused the firms of ...
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FANUC UK, the UK unit of the Japanese automation company FANUC, has collaborated with automation specialists Festo and Pacepacker to come up with advanced robot palletiser systems that can assist food manufacturers with their packaging. ...
Tags: sacks, crates, boxes, trays, Agriculture
Inhance Technologies LLC, formerly known as Fluoro-Seal International, L.P., headquartered in Houston, Texas, has agreed to pay a $59,000 civil penalty and spend a minimum of $180,000 on systems to recycle hazardous hydrogen fluoride gas, ...