The Indian textile industry, employing over 100 million people directly and indirectly has been looking for various schemes and assistance in the Union Budget 2013-14 to regain its global competitiveness which faced the worst ever crisis in ...
Tags: textile industry, Union Budget, SIMA
The Union Budget 2013-14 presented by the India’s Finance Minister P Chidambaram has brought cheer for the textile and garment industry as the Central Government has accepted their long standing demand for removal of excise duty on ...
Tags: India, Textile Sector, Garments
Packaging manufacturer North State Flexibles has announced plans to expand its operations in Greensboro, North Carolina, US with an investment of over $6m over the next three years. The City of Greensboro, Guilford County, and the State ...
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What would be the impact of a far-reaching free trade agreement between the USA and the EU on growth, prosperity and employment? On behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, the Ifo Institute has conducted a study ...
Tags: Free Trade, EU, usa
Solar PV capacity passes 100GW as demand slows to 30GW. But its future is positive, say two new market reports. The world’s cumulative solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity capacity surpassed 100 GW in 2012, achieving just over 101 ...
Tags: Global PV Power, Energy, solar photovoltaic
The California Energy Commission has worked with research originating at the California Lighting Technology Center to publish an LED lamp quality specification that SSL manufacturers will have to follow for products to qualify for utility ...
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Recently, the annual figures of the national gross domestic products (GDPs) of various countries of the European Union (EU) were published. Most of them are not very favorable compared to those for Asian countries. Most of them show a ...
Tags: GDP, European Union, finance
ICSA Labs, an Authorized Certification Body (ACB) of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), has granted 2014 Edition Ambulatory and Inpatient EHR Module certification to LDM Group's ConnectSys 3.0 ...
The Roof Coatings Manufacturers Association (RCMA) has partnered with the Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE) to create a database of current information on rebates and tax credits for installing reflective ...
Tags: RCMA, DSIRE, tax credits, reflective roofs
Marks & Spencer (M&S) will unveil a new property lease policy at next week's Ecobuild 2013 (5th – 7th March). All new M&S stores will now have ‘green' clauses as standard enabling landlords and tenants to better manage a ...
Tags: M&S, 'green'clauses, property lease policy
Sustenance of conducive business environment for the textile industry is the need of hour with respect to cotton policies, said Mr. S Dinakaran, Chairman of The Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA). SIMA Chief has said that after ...
Tags: SIMA, CCI, Cotton Prices
Broadband connectivity has the potential to transform education by giving teachers and students access to learning resources and technologies that will allow them to improve their skills in the context of a globalized economy, according to ...
Apparel Export Promotion Council organised Export Excellence Award and Lifetime Achievement Award, here on 22nd February evening. Shri Anand Sharma, Hon’ble Minister for Commerce, Industry & Textiles, Government of India was the ...
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Indian textile and garment industry is seeking relief inUnion Budget and is expecting exemption of customs duty on man-made fibre, removal of levy of excise duty on readymade garments, allocation of more fund for Technology Upgradation Fund ...
Tags: textile sector, textile, textile machineries
Pike Research forecasts the market for commercial building energy systems to grow from $3.9 billion in revenue in 2013 to more than $7.5 billion in 2022 in new report. The commercial buildings market is currently the largest source of ...
Tags: Energy Storage, Commercial Buildings, commercial buildings market