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The leader of Spain’s food manufacturing industry has called on the country’s government to offer more help in supplying personal protective equipment (PPE) to companies who have stayed open during the Covid-19 pandemic to feed consumers staying at home. Mauricio García de Quevedo, director general de la Federación Española de Industrias de Alimentación y Bebidas (FIAB), told just-food that companies and workers in the food and beverage industry (nearly half a million people), “have reacted in an exemplary manner; they have never stopped supplying the public with the products they need, and maintain the variety, quality and safety that characterise our products.”…

The Nicaragua Textile and Clothing Industry Association (Anitec) has said that it hopes the country’s apparel export performance in 2020 will hold its ground, despite the anticipated softening in growth within the global economy this year and continuing political strife within the country.…

THE PERUVIAN government has created a textile and clothing industry roundtable group that has been charged with forging backward linkages delivering a comprehensive domestic supply chain from fibre to fabric, that will reduce costs for the country’s apparel sector. Currently imports significant volumes of yarn and cotton, increasing expenses for the clothing sector.…

Mexico’s digital textile printing industry is poised for growth as the country’s textile manufacturers bet on the technology to cut costs, meet orders faster and widen exports to Canada and the United States, efforts that have gained in importance this year as the global economy reels from the spread of the coronavirus.…

THE USE of paint and coatings by airlines is far more than the choice of an elegant trip for tail fins and fuselages. High tech coatings help aircraft operate efficiently and play an increasingly important role in helping planes fly smoothly, reducing drag and hence carbon emissions.…

A Spanish petrochemicals manufacturer is to by mid-2020 install new environment friendly production methods as a result of a EUR60 million European Investment Bank (EIB) loan, guaranteed by the European Commission. Spain’s CEPSA is installing the Detal system it developed with technology company UOP (Universal Oil Products) – whose parent is US-based Honeywell.…

IMPROVING on performance in AML/CFT is never a simple process, and that is especially a case with a country such as Bulgaria which has had a long-standing corruption problem, causing this east European country to be under special monitoring by the European Commission from the day it joined the European Union (EU) in 2007.…

THE PERUVIAN government has created a textile and clothing industry roundtable group that has been charged with forging backward linkages delivering a comprehensive domestic supply chain from fibre to fabric, that will reduce costs for the country’s apparel sector. Currently imports significant volumes of yarn and cotton, increasing expenses for the clothing sector.…

FOR rural landowners in England and Wales, the UK quitting the European Union (EU) on January 31 maybe the most important market driver in 2020. Uncertainty over Brexit has held up investment, sales and purchases, constitutional change is coming, landowners can plan with more clarity.…

Like other European cities, the sheer number of cheap nail salons that have exploded in Barcelona in recent years has reached saturation point. There is one, however, that has a waiting list. Dvine creates the ‘art nails’ that have become the statement accessory of Rosalia, the Catalan singing sensation who swept the 2020 Grammy Awards.…