The 15th Heimtextil Russia opened its doors from 25 to 27 September at the IEC Crocus Expo in Moscow, Russia and gathered the key players of the international textile business Always spectacular, Heimtextil Russia represents a highlight ...
Grupo Cortefiel continues its ambitious international expansion plan in Russia where it plans to have 200 stores by 2016. This is one of the Group’s growth strategic markets, along with China and Mexico, and the third in terms of ...
Tags: Grupo Cortefiel, strategic markets
The European Union (EU) has launched a project for the development of smart clothing with wearable technology in cloud computing (cloud computing is a synonym for distributed computing over a network and means the ability to run a program ...
Tags: Smart Clothing, Cloud Computing
An international research group has reviewed the state of the art of life cycle assessment (LCA) in the context of wastewater treatment (WWT). They report that methodologies need to be updated to account for future challenges in the water ...
US-based metal packaging supplier Ball has unveiled its new printing technology called Matte & Gloss to enhance shelf appeal of aerosol cans and beverage bottles at the 28th FEA International Aerosol Congress in Madrid, Spain. ...
There is new recycled containerboard capacity scheduled to come on stream at the end of 2013. Blue Paper, a joint venture between VPK and Klingele Papierwerke (Germany), is in the final stages of converting a fine paper machine (from UPM ...
Tags: Recycled Price
Brandimage and Anthem, part of SGK's brand development group, have won two awards in 2013 Pentawards worldwide packaging design competition held in Barcelona, Spain. Brandimage has won a gold Pentaward for the packaging design of Bama, ...
Tags: Packaging Design, Brandimage
The Spanish textiles Export Price Index (IPRIX) for the month of August 2013 shows a decline of 1.3 percent year-on-year, according to the data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE). The IPRIX for the overall exports in ...
Tags: Textile Export, Textile
Chairman AEPC, Dr A Sakthivel has expressed happiness over the growth of exports. Lauding the efforts of the exporters and Government Dr. Sakthivel said, “Apparel Exports for the month of September 2013 grew by 14.95% touching 1.11 ...
Tags: Apparel Exports, Textile
House prices, as measured by the House Price Index (HPI), fell by 2.2% in the euro area and by 1.3% in the EU in the second quarter of 2013 compared with the same quarter of the previous year, according to data published by Eurostat, the ...
Tags: House Prices, economy
The very first IFAT India will be taking place in the Bombay Exhibition Centre (BEC) in Mumbai between October 24 and 26, 2013. And already it has exceeded expectations: Over 100 exhibitors from 15 countries have signed up to take part in ...
Glaston has closed a more than $4 million (USD) deal for a heat treatment line with the Spanish company Tvitec – Técnicas de Vidro Transformado S.L. The line will be delivered to the customer in the final quarter of 2013. The ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
German lighting manufacturer Franz Sill has succumbed to difficult market conditions and filed for preliminary insolvency. The company, which manufactures floodlights, luminaires and projectors, now has three months to come up with a way ...
The Spanish womenswear brand hits the new City Centre mall in Beirut. Hoss Intropia operates from more than 1,600 points of sale in 48 countries. Now this non-stop global growth is continuing in Lebanon, where it has just opened a ...
Tags: womenswear, Apparel
Women’s Secret, Spain’s popular innerwear label, has joined hands with the famous Barcelona-based healthcare clinic Dexeus Women’s Health to release a new lingerie line for the Mastectomy survivors. The ...
Tags: Lingerie, Mastectomy Survivors