UK based charity WRAP has unveiled a five year plan which aims to create a revolution in the way that industries use resources, which also includes textiles and clothing. “Resource Revolution: Creating the Future" sets out how ...
The Foreign Trade Association (FTA), a leading business association of European and international commerce that promotes the values of free trade, has demanded that the European Union’s trade policy be adapted to today’s global ...
The Presidents’ Meeting that took place in Tel Aviv this week highlighted five challenges facing the diamond industry, but the issue of profitability was the most pressing. Constituents of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses ...
Tags: diamond industry, mining
Competition in the gaming notebook segment is surely to become keener in the second half of 2015 as notebook brands including Acer, Asustek Computer, Dell, Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) together are expected to ...
Tags: Gaming Notebook, Tablet Notebook
C North America today announced it is investing $22 million in its Dothan facility in order to increase the production of its high-performance light truck and SUV passenger tires. Michelin said the investment will create about 40 new jobs ...
Tags: SUV passenger tires, tires
The latest photovoltaic (PV) price update by EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, shows the downstream sector of the industry has been seeing brisk orders since the start of June. Stock up demands for this month also starts to pick up ...
The logistics sector seems to have a hard time when it comes to raising prices in their customer base. Furthermore, compared to other industries, it has an extremely low success rate when introducing new products and services. These are ...
Thailand-based industrial conglomerate Siam Cement hopes to jack up 5-10% sales out of its paper and packaging this year, banking on demand from Southeast Asian countries. Domestic growth, however, is expected to be around 1-2%. Siam ...
Tags: Packaging Business, Siam Cement
Henkel Adhesive Technologies India, an arm of German consumer giant Henkel, will pump in €30m ($34m) into a new adhesives unit in the state of Maharashtra. Expected to be operational by early 2017, the new manufacturing unit will be ...
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Speciality chemicals manufacturer Solvay has unveiled a two year profit sharing plan for its employees indexed to the Group's financial and sustainable development performance for 2015 and 2016. In a press release, Solvay said after the ...
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Germany-based aftermarket tuning firm Brabus has introduced a performance kit that claims to boost engine power and torque for the new Mercedes S 500 plug-in hybrid. Brabus PowerXtra B50 Hybrid kit is said to raise power of the V6 engine ...
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India’s textile and garment exports registered an almost flat growth at $41.4 billion in 2014-15, against $40.8 billion in the previous fiscal, falling short of this year’s target of $45 billion, according to media reports. ...
Tags: Garment Exports, Textiles Exports
Wacker Polymers is to raise its prices for Vinnapas vinyl acetate homopolymer dispersions as well as Vinnapas vinyl acetate-ethylene and Vinnol ethylene-vinyl chloride-based copolymer dispersions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa ...
Inaugurating a textile park at Nandgaonpeth MIDC (industrial colony) near Amravati on Thursday, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said such parks would be established in eight other places in the state's cotton-belt, according to ...
Tags: Textile Parks, Cotton Belt, textile
With brands such as Back to the Future and Wizard of Oz available through the new toys to life title, retailers are rejoicing at the potential new channels it is opening up. LEGO Dimensions will mark another success for the brand at ...
Tags: Lego, Toy Retailers