Exports of coir and coir products from India touched an all-time high totaling Rs. 14.76 billion, registering a surge of 32 percent year-on-year, during the last fiscal year of 2013-14, owing to robust consumption from China, as per the ...
Tags: Coir, Coir products
The wool comfort and handle meters have been developed by the Sheep Co-operative Research Centre over several years and were commercially launched on Friday. They will be licensed and sold by the Australian Wool Testing Authority. ...
Tags: wool comfort, handle meters
Comforel, the tried-and-tested brand featuring original fiber clusters for pillows, has now been awarded the "Aktion Gesunder Rücken e.V." (Healthy Back Campaign - AGR) seal of approval, an acknowledgement by the AGR of the ...
The SYLKA collection of luxury carpets and rugs is to debut a new product range at this year's May Design Series. The May Design Series taking place from May 18-20 at London Excel, brings together 400 of the finest suppliers, offering an ...
Tags: carpets, Furniture, Furnishing
This initiative, which will restore rainforest four times the size of the Lake District, has been developed with input from stakeholders including WWF, Greenpeace and NGO members of APP's Solutions Working Group. The commitment takes the ...
Diets high in fibre, especially cereal fibre, may help heart attack survivors live longer People who survive heart attacks have a greater chance of living longer if they increase their dietary intake of fibre – with cereal fibres ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The new NepTrim is a good butter replacement in baked goods Australian food ingredients research and development company Neptune Bio-Innovations has launched a 'zero fat replacement system' called NepTrim for use in food manufacturing. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
TenCate recorded a decline in revenues of 7% in the first quarter of 2014, with 2% of this being the result of currency effects. The lower defence revenues had a considerable effect on profitability. TenCate does not consider the ...
Tags: TenCate, Advanced Textiles
Rhodia Fibres, owned by the Solvay Group, has launched the very first biodegradable yarn in the world, which was integrated in the summer 2014/15 collection of Brazilian designer Ronaldo Fraga that was presented at the recently concluded ...
Avago Technologies Ltd (a designer and supplier of III-V-based analog components for communications, industrial and consumer applications) recently said that it has now shipped more than 500,000 units of QSFP+ multimode fiber (MMF) optical ...
Tags: transceiver module, Electrical, Electronics
2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the first ever Chateau La Cornue created by André Dupuy. He was the son of Albert, the father of the vaulted oven and the founder of La Cornue in 1908. To mark this anniversary, ...
ITMA ASIA+CITME 2014 will take place in Shanghai next June 16-20. It will be another opportunity to connect with the French Textile Machinery manufacturers. The French offer is very large as France is the 6th textile machinery exporter ...
Tags: Textile Machinery, Textile, Cotton, apparel, home textiles
Monster Health Food, an Australian family-owned breakfast food company, has launched the first products to display the controversial Health Star Rating front-of-pack labelling system. The new packs will be on supermarket shelves this ...
Tags: Health Food, Agriculture, Food
Being held concurrently with Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics – Spring Edition 2014 which brought synergistic effects, the pavilion saw a growth of over 200% in its visitor number from last year, while the top five overseas ...
National Bureau of Standards South Africa (South African Bureau of Standards, SABS) was promulgated in 1945 under the "National Standards Act" established a subsidiary body of the South African Department of Trade and Industry. South Africa ...
Tags: SABS Certification, SABS, certification