Italian lamination machines supplier Nordmeccanica has signed a preferred vendor agreement with Amcor Flexibles Asia Pacific (AFAP). According to the agreement that will be applicable for a period of 24 months, AFAP will buy machinery for ...
Tags: lamination machines, Agriculture
The readymade garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh has a great future and is in an excellent position to expand in the global market, Parliamentarian State Secretary of German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, ...
Tags: readymade garment(RMG)sector, German Official, Apparel
The textile industry of Iran needs to form a network of marketing and sales units in factories, as the industry has a high value for finished products and can maintain a working capital for producers, according to Golnaz Nasrollahi, General ...
Mombasa Apparels, a Kenya-based garment company, has opened a factory, set up at a cost of Sh2.2 billion, in Kenya’s coastal town of Mtwapa, Kilifi County. The new factory is expected to create 3,000 jobs and would manufacture ...
Tags: garment company, job creation, Apparel
East Africa is undergoing a major transformation to become a new world-class player on the energy market. By 2025, east Africa is expected to experience an incremental production growth of nearly one million barrels per day (b/d), led by ...
Tags: energy market, Hydrocarbon
This year’s gradually improving business outlook looks set to continue into 2015, with the latest survey of Australian firms revealing that an increasing number expect to lift their sales and profits, sell their goods and services at ...
The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector was at 50.8 percent in October of the current year, down 0.3 percentage points compared to September, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). In the ...
Tags: PMI, manufacturing sector
According to the monthly sectoral confidence survey released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the confidence index* for the construction sector in Turkey, which stood at 83.6 points in September of the current year, decreased by ...
The Bangladesh Ambassador to US, Mohammad Ziauddin, has sought help from the US Government for promoting the readymade garment (RMG) sector of Bangladesh, BSS news agency reported. Mr. Ziauddin, in a discussion with US Congresswoman ...
Tags: Bangladesh, US Government, Accessories
US construction firms added jobs in 39 states between September 2013 and September 2014 while construction employment increased in 34 states and the District of Columbia between August and September, according to an analysis of Labor ...
Tags: US Construction, Jobs, Energy
Coats, one of the leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts companies, has announced the opening of a state-of-the-art zips factory in Chittagong, on the eve of completing 25 years of operations in Bangladesh. The new zips ...
Tags: Coats, Zips Factory, Textile
In the presence of the Republic of Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet, the Chilean Senate’s President Isabel Allende and Minister of Energy Máximo Pacheco, cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker ...
Tags: Solar Installs, PV Project
The Independent Tire Dealers Group LLC’s (ITDG) captive insurance company reports a record second quarter. The Independent Innovative Captive Insurance Company (IICIC), a worker’s compensation insurance company, realized a net ...
Tags: ITDG, Results, Accessories
Ford is planning to add 850 new jobs at its Ford Rouge Center in Michigan, US to support the production of its upcoming 2015 F-150. The new jobs have been divided amongst three facilities which include 300 for Dearborn Stamping, 500 for ...
Tags: Ford, New Jobs, Accessories
The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, rose 0.6 percent in August from July, rising for the second consecutive month, according to the US ...
Tags: TSI, Transportation, Energy