Teijin Frontier Co., Ltd., the Teijin Group's fiber-products converting company, announced today that it will establish Teijin Frontier Myanmar Co., Ltd. in Yangon, Myanmar, on October 1 to strengthen Teijin Frontier's overseas operations ...
Tags: Textile
Taiwan's packaging machinery industry has been developed over the decades by local companies using skills and know-how learned from overseas, initially with the aim of replacing imports. The industry went on to become an exporter, and many ...
Tags: Packaging Machine
During the second quarter of 2013, new orders for textile machinery, as elaborated by ACIMIT’s economics and press department, showed signs of growth compared to the same period for 2012 (+12%). The absolute index stood at 92.2 points ...
Tags: Textile Machinery, Apparel
From July 19, 2013, Myanmar, previously Burma, would benefit once again from a special, advantageous trade arrangement with the EU, according to a statement from the European Commission in Brussels. Myanmar would be brought back under ...
Tags: European market, Apparel
The JAC N series high end light duty truck was launched in Singapore in late April. Grand ceremony was held, with the province head of Anhui present, together with Chinese ambassador to Singapore as well as many other high officials of ...
Tags: Transportation, Light Duty Truck, Truck
Thailand's PTT LNG, a subsidiary of state-owned oil and gas company PTT, is going ahead with plans to double capacity of its existing 5 million mt/year LNG import terminal despite severe under-utilization of the facility. "The government ...
It may have taken almost two decades, but Tun Thura Thet's investment in one of Asia's poorest countries is finally paying off. "I've been waiting here for 17 years to have this moment," he said, sitting at his office in Yangon, Myanmar. ...
Tags: Tech Industry, Myanmar
How do you build a blockbuster app in Myanmar, one of Asia's poorest countries? You go and ask a fortune teller for help, according to 25-year-old Htoo Myint Naung, a local developer. "There's a very famous fortune teller in Yangon, he is ...
Tags: Mobile Apps, Myanmar
India has offered to help in revival of 300 apparel factories in Myanmar. During his meeting with the Myanmar President U Thein Sein last Friday, in Nay Pyi Taw, The Union Minister of Commerce Industry and Textiles, Shri Anand Sharma also ...
Tags: apparel factories, Textile
BASF is implementing its global “We create chemistry” strategy in Asia Pacific with a set of ambitious targets and a focus on sustainability. To achieve sales of €25 billion to customers in the region by 2020, BASF’s ...
Tags: BASF, water treatment
Germany-based global chemical company BASF is planning to invest €10bn with a strategy to focus on sustainability in the Asia Pacific region by 2020. BASF is said to collaborate with the customers in the selected markets to discuss ...
Coca-Cola has announced the opening of a bottling plant in Crystal Springs, Hmawbi Township in Myanmar, as part of its planned investment of $200m over the next five years. Coca-Cola and Sprite in 425ml plastic bottles with scripted ...
Tags: Coca-Cola, Bottling Plant
General Electric has signed a memorandum of understanding with Lighting Co Specialist, a franchisee of Krislite (Singapore), to explore the distribution of GE lighting solutions in Myanmar, its ninth market in Asean. GE's solutions ...
Tags: LED, General Electric
The Myanmar-China natural gas pipeline has been completed and is ready for trial operations, and a parallel oil pipeline is 94% complete, state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. said Friday on its website. The 12 Bcm/year gas pipeline ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, natural gas
International Kanbawza Insurance (IKBZ) has started offering new insurance services in Myanmar and is writing six different types of coverage, including life, fire, surety bonds, transportation, cargo and money secure. Kanbawza Group ...