ISPO Textrends Forum, a platform for innovative textiles and components for sportswear manufacturing, has seen participation from companies in 2015, rising by 65 per cent from the prior year. 240 selected products will be presented at the ...
UK-based RPC Containers Corby has invested in a new Injection Stretch Blow Moulding (ISBM) technology, enabling the company to offer its established high barrier PP/EVOH/PP containers with enhanced transparency. According to the ...
Tags: Injection Stretch Blow Moulding technology, Agriculture
NYSE listed, apparel marketer, Gap Inc. and TAU Investment Management, an active growth-equity investment firm that transforms global supply chains, have entered into a partnership to promote best-in-class innovations and support the ...
Tags: garment factories, Apparel
Safety and sustainability will be the main focus at the first Dhaka Apparel Summit. Set to kickstart on 7 December, the three-day event will also focus on how the country can achieve the milestone to achieve US$ 50 billion in RMG export by ...
Tags: Safety, Sustainability, Apparel
Elopak has launched a range of beverage cartons that are made of certified renewable polyethylene (PE), said to be the first for the European market. Another first for the company is that Elopak has used second generation renewable PE, ...
The company demonstrated the successes of its Cut/4 CArboN program at this year’s BrauBeviale in Nuremberg, Germany, in an unusual way: its progress is seen through the eyes of “Carla” (pic), a fictional Ball employee who ...
Tags: Carbon Footprint, Microsite
Italian soft furnishings exhibition Proposte will host non-European exhibitors for the first time in its 22-year history. According to the show's general manager and president of the board of directors, Massimo Mosiello and Piercarlo ...
Tags: soft furnishings, exhibition, Furniture
BASF announced the North American launch of Irgazin Orange EH1287 for industrial applications which include agriculture, construction and earth moving equipment coatings. Irgazin Orange EH1287 improves material flow allowing formulators to ...
High class print reproductions vs sustainability. It's no longer an 'either or' choice. SCA has developed Solo Print, a one-side coated paper into its sustainable packaging product family. This paper gives printability in the same class as ...
Tags: High class print, Packaging
Tokyo-based Showa Shell Sekiyu subsidiary Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has completed installation of its CIS solar modules at a Japanese ...
Tags: Brewery, Electrical
Australian quick service restaurant operator Collins Foods Limited, which operates KFC and Sizzler restaurants, has reported a 37 per cent lift in Earnings Before Interest Tax Depreciation and Amortisation (EBITA) and a 43 per cent lift in ...
Tags: Collins Foods, Agriculture
Sustainability, one of the major topics among current trends in the furnishings and textile sector will apply in equal measure for the world's largest trade fair for home and contract textiles, Heimtextil. Heimtextil, which runs from ...
Tags: Home Textiles, Textile
The 20th anniversary edition of Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics which ran from October 20-23, 2014 saw record number of visitors and also exhibitors from the previous editions. A total of 3,844 exhibitors from 30 countries and ...
Tags: apparel fabrics, Textile
Good design and innovation in packaging are what the Packaging Council of Australia’s awards program - the Australian Packaging Design Awards - recognises. But more than that, it applauds the successful execution and implementation of ...
Tags: Packaging Design Awards, Packaging
Sustainability is one of the major topics among current trends in the furnishings and textile sector. Heimtextil will be devoting itself to the whole issue of sustainability, with inspiring special displays and interesting events. Olaf ...
Tags: Sustainability, Lectures, Furniture