Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF) and its Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) initiative, are supporting Ugandan farmers through sustainable cotton farming. With successful verification of the Western Uganda Cotton Company (WUCC) and the ...
Tags: Sustainable Cotton, Textile
Virtually all the indicators, from manufacturing activity to trade data, point to weakening. Expectations of an immanent reduction in the real interest rate have never been higher, despite the central bank's insistence on reining in ...
Tags: economic growth, trade data
The Philippines division of Japanese auto maker Mitsubishi Motors has started production of vehicles at the company’s new plant at Santa Rosa, Laguna province. The new plant occupies around 21.4 hectors, and is expected to have ...
Tags: Mitsubishi, Santa Rosa Plant
Inatex, the 13th Indonesia International Creative Textile Apparel Accessories Exhibition, and Indo Intertex, the Indonesia International Textile and Garment Machinery & Accessories Exhibition, will take place from 23-25 April 2015, at ...
Tags: Inatex, Indo Intertex, Garment Machinery
Pieology Pizzeria has added vegan mozzarella cheese from Daiya Foods, to the fast casual restaurant chain's large variety of topping selections. Available at select Pieology locations, the vegan cheese option aligns with the company's ...
China's central bank seems to have moved to stabilize the yuan despite mounting market sentiment that the currency has been toward the upper limit of its daily trading band for the past week. The reference rate the People's Bank of China ...
International Flavors & Fragrances has opened a new facility in Chicago city, in the US state of Illinois. With a culinary center and an advanced application and flavor creation laboratories, the facility will offer flavors which will ...
Tags: fragrances, Flavors
The SnowSports Industries America (SIA) Board of Directors announced that David Ingemie, SIA’s president for the past 34 years, would be stepping down as president following the 2016 SIA Snow Show. Ingemie joined SIA in 1976 as ...
Speaking at the inauguration of Tex-Trends India 2015, Indian union textiles minister, Santosh Kumar Gangwar said the new National Textiles Policy will be unveiled after the Union Budget is presented. The new Textiles Policy aims to ...
Tags: home furnishings, yarns, fabrics, silk, Apparel
Dutch textile and design company, Vlisco Group, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Federal Government of Nigeria, to invest in the Cotton, Textiles, and Garment (CTG) sector of Nigeria, Vanguard reported. The MoU ...
An expert told that trade between Brazil and China in 2015 may reverse a downward trend as commodity prices are recovering and Brazil will export more manufactured goods to China. Brazil-China trade dropped significantly in 2014, with ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is awarding $1 million in grants to strengthen the capacity of states and tribes to protect and restore wetlands. The National Wetland Program Development Grants provide interstate agencies, ...
Tags: fishing, hunting, Agriculture
Daniel Feezell, an assistant professor in the University of New Mexico’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received a $500,000 US National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, ...
Tags: gallium nitride, Electrical
Apparel Training and Design Centre (ATDC), India’s largest apparel industry training institute bagged the ‘Best Institute: Innovation’ from ASSOCHAM at ‘Summit-cum-Awards on Skilling India’. ATDC received ...
Tags: innovative skill, apparel industry, Textile
Label printing company Marschall Etiketten has deployed a new multifunction finishing machine Saturn Midi 330 from Prati for post-processing of labels. Prati machine is used by the firm to inspect the finished label products in order to ...
Tags: environment-friendly substrates, clear-on-clear labels, Agriculture