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Danish Crown's Dat-Schaub Buys Majority Stake in Shanghai Natural Casing
Mar 30, 2018Global meat processing company Danish Crown’s subsidiary DAT-Schaub has purchased a majority stake in Shanghai Natural Casing for an undisclosed price to expand its operations in China. The purpose of the acquisition is to gain ...
Tags: meat, meat processing
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Macfarlane to Showcase Protective Packaging Solutions at Packaging Innovations 2018 Event
Feb 28, 2018Macfarlane Packaging, the UK’s distributor of protective packaging materials, will showcase packaging solutions to help businesses reduce cost and waste at Packaging Innovations 2018 event to be held at the Birmingham NEC from 28 ...
Tags: Protective Packaging, Packaging
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Bart Ingredients Purchases Automatic Sleeve Wrapping Machine From Adpak Machinery
Jun 12, 2016Bristol-based herb and spice manufacturer, Bart Ingredients has purchased an automatic sleeve wrapping machine from Adpak Machinery Systems. Bart Ingredients was founded in 1963 and now sources and supplies herbs and spices to many ...
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Silentnight Calls For Apprenticeship Policy Clarity
Mar 22, 2016Bed manufacturer Silentnight, a company that has been investing in apprentices for more than 10 years, believes the new shift in the demands on the public sector could lead to cause for concern. As 2015 drew to a close and the targets for ...
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Major Australian Supermarkets Thai Union Supplier Shrimp Linked to Human Rights Abuses
Dec 21, 2015Australian supermarkets giants have confirmed they source seafood from a company implicated in the usage of indentured slave labourers for prawn peeling. Coles, Woolworths and Aldi supermarkets have each confirmed that they have sourced ...
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TEXPROCIL Welcomes The Inclusion of Exports of Cotton Fabrics
Jul 24, 2015The Cotton Textiles Exports Promotion Council (TEXPROCIL) has welcomed the inclusion of exports of cotton fabrics - both woven and knitted - to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka under the Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS), according to a ...
Tags: Cotton Textiles, Textiles
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Removal of Benefits on Exports to Africa Will Affect Shipments of Value
Jun 19, 2015The cotton textiles export promotion council (TEXPROCIL) has said that the removal of benefits on exports to African countries in the new foreign trade policy will affect shipments of value added products like cotton dyed and printed ...
Tags: cotton textiles, Textile
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China Aims to Boost Cotton Sector
Apr 9, 2015China’s cotton policies will evolve based on continued movement toward a market-driven economy, balancing the interests of Chinese cotton farmers against those of textile manufacturers, disposal of the country’s large cotton ...
Tags: cotton policies, textile, cotton
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FTP Still Draws Mainly Negative Reactions
Apr 8, 2015While two more textile export bodies have criticised the Foreign Trade Policy, a shoes and apparel major has welcomed it. Over the last week, several textile trade bodies have slammed the new policy for ignoring their concerns. Apparel ...
Tags: AEPC, Negative Reactions, Apparel
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Exporters Interest Subvention Scheme
Apr 7, 2015Exporters from select labour intensive sectors will be able to access cheaper credit soon as the government prepares to reintroduce an interest subvention scheme in the next couple of months, according to media reports. “The ...
Tags: select labour intensive sectors, interest subvention scheme, Textile
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a Survey by The Economist Reveals That Asian Women Are Increasingly Empowered Financially
Dec 23, 2014The European Parliament has completed the last stage in the process to grant the Philippines Generalised System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) that will provide duty free entry to the EU for some of the most important Philippine exports, ...
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SoftWear Automation Completes $3 Million Series a Round of Financing From CTW Partners
Dec 17, 2014SoftWear Automation, a developer of robotic sewing technologies for the apparel industry said it completed a $3 million Series A round of financing from CTW Venture Partners. Alongside, KP Reddy, partner at CTW Venture has also been ...
Tags: Sewing Technologies, Softwear Bags, Apparel
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Textiles Has The Lion's Share in India's Exports From Labour Intensive Sectors
Dec 15, 2014Textiles has the lion’s share in India’s exports from labour intensive sectors, according to data from the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S), Kolkata, under the Ministry of Industry and ...
Tags: Labour Intensive, textile sector
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Mombasa Apparels Invests Sh2.2 Billion in Kilifi
Nov 18, 2014Mombasa Apparels, a Kenya-based garment company, has opened a factory, set up at a cost of Sh2.2 billion, in Kenya’s coastal town of Mtwapa, Kilifi County. The new factory is expected to create 3,000 jobs and would manufacture ...
Tags: garment company, job creation, Apparel
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"Make in India" Programme to Be of Immense Help to The Textiles Sector
Oct 21, 2014The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) said that in the highly labour-intensive textile sector, rigid labour laws have been a major hindrance to investments and scaling up of production facilities. Prem Malik, Chairman, CITI ...
Tags: Textile Industry, textile sector