The German Development Cooperation (GIZ) and the European Union (EU) have completed four years of their collaboration for improving labour standards in Bangladesh’s readymade garment (RMG) industry. An event to mark the ...
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The International OEKO-TEX Association, a global leader in textile product and facility certifications, announced at TexWorld USA the introduction of MySTeP, a robust, secure database application that houses a textile product ...
Crown Uniform & Linen Service eagerly awaits the opening of their new facility in Brockton Massachusetts. Plant operations will begin moving by the end of summer and a Ribbon Cutting ceremony is being planned for the middle of October. ...
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Innovative research has transformed the cotton industry in Australia, which now uses less land and water than in the past, according to the Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), one of fifteen Rural Research and Development ...
The board of directors of Eastman Chemical Company has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.35 per share on the company's common stock. The dividend is payable Oct. 1, 2014, to stockholders of record as of Sept. 15, 2014. Eastman is ...
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Perry Ellis International, Inc. announces the launch of a full updated traditional sportswear collection under its Savane brand. The expansion builds on the brand's success as an innovator in the men's bottoms business, with the addition of ...
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EcoPlanet Bamboo Group has hired three seasoned executives from $8.5 billion timber giant Weyerhaeuser in a key step to ensure its continued success and global expansion, and has named Marvin Ray Risco as the Group president. “Ray ...
The Foreign Trade Association (FTA) presents the Business Environmental Performance Initiative (BEPI), its new business-driven service aimed at supporting retailers and importers to improve environmental performance of supplying factories ...
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Amcor Rigid Plastics has joined 'The Recycling Partnership', an industry-funded program designed to increase residential recycling in the US. The program is also supported by Alcoa Foundation, American Chemistry Council, American Forest ...
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ArcelorMittal’s Lázaro Cárdenas steel plant expects to close 2014 with a production of about 4 million tons of crude steel, of which about 1.2 million tons will comprise finished products--rebar and wire rod--according ...
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Shaw Industries Group, Inc. (Shaw) released its sixth annual sustainability report. “We committed to significant investment in business expansion and continued to advance our sustainable business strategy in 2013,” says ...
Appalachian Mountain Brewery, Inc, announced today it has engaged the professional services of Bongiovanni & Associates, PA and Green Tree Financial Group, Inc. to audit its financial statements to execute its growth plans by becoming fully ...
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A new report has analysed the costs and savings associated with a range of sustainable building strategies and challenged the perception that sustainable buildings are more costly to construct. The report commissioned by The Building ...
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Kornit Digital and the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), State University of New York, announced that the three winning designs of the 2014 Sustainable Digital Textile Printing Challenge will be exhibited to the general public for the ...
ITMA Asia in Shanghai – the first exhibition of the complete Saurer Group, proved to be a very successful event for the Group. Being the only machine manufacturer launching three completely new machines, the Saurer booth was ...