Malaysia's Penfabric has become the world's first integrated textile company undertaking yarn spinning, greige weaving to dyeing and finishing, to be awarded the STeP by Oeko-Tex certificate for sustainable textile production and with it, ...
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R&P and Shanghai Hop Zenith Chemical Trading have inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for floating a joint venture to set up a unit in China for production and distribution of Thermoplastic PolyOlefin (TPO) compounds for the ...
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Managing supply insecurities and instability of prices will be required in the global cotton supply chain to avoid a fall in cotton's market share, particularly when alternative fibres are largely replacing cotton, says a cotton expert. ...
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Producer and marketer of recycled nylon fibres Aquafil has entered into a partnership with Outerknown, a new menswear apparel brand founded by 11 time world champion surfer Kelly Slater. An Aquafil press release informed that ...
Tags: textile manufacture, Nylon Fibres
China’s LED package market grew 19% Year-on-Year (YoY) to US $8.6 billion in 2014, according to LEDinside’s 2015 Global Sapphire and LED Chip Market Report. The lighting market has been the major growth momentum for the ...
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A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has found that blue light emitting diodes (LEDs) have strong antibacterial effect on major foodborne pathogens, and are most effective when in cold temperatures (between ...
Cargill will soon launch a program that will map all aspects of its North American high oleic canola supply chain through its Knowing Your Roots: from farm to table program. "Understanding where food comes from is a priority for ...
Tags: health food, high oleic canola, organic food
Mexico-based producer and processor of poultry and other food products Industrias Bachoco will acquire the breeding assets in the State of Georgia of Morris Hatchery, a US company. In 2013, Bachoco acquired the breeding assets in the ...
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UK-based Plessey Semiconductors is to lead a £1.3m UK government-funded project in conjunction with Aixtron Ltd (the UK subsidiary of deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany) and Bruker Nano ...
Tags: Semiconductors, deposition equipment, LEDs
Net revenues slipped 6 per cent year over year on a reported basis at denim jeans marketer Levi Strauss & Co. for the second quarter ended May 31, 2015. Net revenues declined six per cent to $1.01 billion on a reported basis in the second ...
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Although many brand vendors have launched wearable products, orders for wearable devices may not be sufficient to drive growth for related component suppliers. The vendors have many different devices and each of them needs only a small ...
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JDA Software has unveiled a new version, 9.0 of supply chain management solution. By enabling a seamless supply chain that spans the end-to-end customer journey ranging from suppliers to end consumers, the release supports profitable ...
Tags: JDA Software, supply chain management solution, Textile
On the sidelines of Taipei Innovative Textile Application Show, the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) in partnership with the Taiwan Textile Federation (TTF) will organise the ICAC International Seminar 2015. “The theme ...
According to JDA Software Group, its 35 JDA customers have been named to the ‘Apparel Top 50 for 2015’ list. “These JDA customers include American Eagle Outfitters, Chico’s, Christopher & Banks and New York & ...
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Global e-commerce sales made via mobile devices are expected to cross $638 billion by 2018, according to a joint study by ASSOCHAM and Deloitte. In a statement, ASSOCHAM said the availability of e-commerce applications on various devices ...