Calling the new incoming Government’s attention to export of cotton yarn from the country at truly insignificant prices, the value-added textile industry of Pakistan noted that the domestic textile industry itself needs it badly. ...
Tags: Cotton Yarn Exports, Cotton, Apparel
During the past year, chief financial officers (CFOs) have grown significantly more confident in the U.S. economy, according to the 2013 Spring CFO Survey from Grant Thornton LLP. The survey findings reveal that 45% of respondents believe ...
Tags: Processing Machinery, CFOs
At the end of March this year, 5.2 million people worked in local manufacturing units with 50 or more employees in Germany, up 0.8 percent compared to the end of March 2012 and stable compared to the end of February this year. As reported ...
Tags: German Motor Vehicle, German Motor, Vehicle
Organisations across the IT, communications and defence sectors have teamed up with Business and IT Sector Skills Council (E-Skills UK) to launch cyber security apprenticeships. The aim is to boost the number of young people working in ...
The U.S. tech industry added 67,400 jobs in 2012, a 1.1% increase from a year earlier, according to a report from the TechAmerica Foundation. The tech industry's growth slightly outpaced the overall private sector in the U.S., which grew ...
Tags: Tech Employment, America, Computer Products
Import volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to increase 3.3 percent in May over the same month last year but growth could trickle to a standstill by the end of the summer, according to the monthly Global ...
Tags: NRF, Retail Import
Diana Shipping Inc. announces time charter contract for M/V Baltimore with RWE Tuesday, May 14, 2013 Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE: DSX), a global shipping company specializing in the ownership and operation of dry bulk vessels, today announced ...
Tags: Diana Shipping, Shipping
Stirred by global criticism over pay and working conditions of readymade garment (RMG) workers, Bangladesh Government has constituted a wage board to increase the minimum wages of these workers, Textiles Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui has ...
Tags: RMG Workers, Apparel
While retail sales were up in April, the growth rate was less than impressive based on data released today by the United States Department of Commerce and the National Retail Federation (NRF). Commerce reported that April retail sales at ...
Tags: Processing Machinery, Commerce, NRF
According to the European solar manufacturers' initiative EU ProSun, Chinese dumping has already cost thousands of jobs in Europe. Only in the production of solar modules some 15,000 jobs have been lost since 2011, as well as thousands of ...
Tags: EU ProSun, Construction
In view of the recent incidents in Bangladesh, including last week’s fire at a readymade garment (RMG) manufacturing factory in Mirpur near Dhaka, the Savar building collapse and Tarzeen factory fire accident, which have together ...
The dollar is almost US2c lower, hurt by a big pre-dawn rally in the US dollar. At 5pm AEST, the local unit was trading at $US1.0063, down from $US1.0243 yesterday. The Australian currency fell to $US1.0047 early today, its lowest level ...
Abadan Khaly, the Turkmen Open Joint Stock Company (OJSC) intends to soon close a deal with a private domestic firm Aga Gurlushyk to set up a carpet factory in Akhal Velayat, a region located in the center of the southern part of ...
Tags: carpet
Around Rs. 21.51 billion of the total Rs. 23.23 billion earmarked under the Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS) for 2012-13, have been disbursed by the Indian Textile Ministry, Minister of State for Textiles Panabaaka Lakshmi informed ...
Lydall, Inc. announced that Chad A. McDaniel has been appointed Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Lydall, Inc., effective upon the commencement of his employment with Lydall, which is expected to be May 29, 2013. Mr. ...
Tags: Chad McDaniel, Textile