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EUROPEAN COMMISSION MAY ADD CADMIUM TO EU CRITICAL RAW MATERIAL LIST
THE EUROPEAN Commission will early next year (2020) consider whether to add cadmium to the European Union (EU) critical raw material list, with the aim of encouraging production and recycling of this mineral that widely used in batteries, potentially helping the EU economy away from fossil fuels.…
EUROPEAN STEEL TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM WORKSHOP COPY
SUSTAINABLE EAF STEEL MAKING
Steel-making in Electric Arc Furnaces (EAF) is already a good example of a waste-free circular economy since today more than half of global steel output is being recycled, even if higher-quality materials are still produced from virgin materials and fossil-fuelled processes, said Carl de Maré, president of the European Steel Technology Platform (ESTEP) at an ESTEP workshop staged in Bergamo, northern Italy.…
VIETNAM MISSES KEY TARGETS OF OUTGOING NATIONAL TEXTILE-GARMENT PLAN
Eleven years after Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade approved its textile and garment industry development strategy for 2010-2020, the availability of domestically-made textile inputs remains a major problem, hindering clothing manufacturers in the country.
Jacky Roy, CEO of Signature Kollections Group- Vietnam, a knit and woven apparel manufacturer based in the UK and India, told just-style that the “price of local cotton or polyester fabric compared to imported fabric is 40 percent higher, making it too costly to fully replace imports.”…
COMPANIES MUST UNDERTAKE DUE DILIGENCE TO AVOID COMPLICITY IN HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES – CRIMINAL CHARGES MAY BE LEVIED ON SLACKERS, CONFERENCE TOLD
Clothing and textile executives attending a New York conference have been told they need to take special care on assessing their supply chains, to ensure they are not tainted with human rights abuses, because not only may the reputational risks be severe – criminal liability may follow.…
INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY ROUNDUP - NEW EUROPEAN COMMISSION WILL IMPOSE GREEN COMMITMENTS ON KNITWEAR SECTOR
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) knitwear sector will be pushed to improve its sustainability within 100 days of a new European Commission taking office, expected to happen on December 1. That is the deadline that a new Commission executive vice-president Frans Timmermans must meet to propose a ‘green deal’ package of reforms, that will include new commitments for EU industries to reduce waste and pollution.…
KENYAN EXPORT ZONE BOSS HAILS NEW SRI LANKAN CLOTHING FACTORY LAUNCH
THE HEAD of the Kenyan export processing zone that will be hosting a new factory run by Sri Lankan apparel and textile manufacturer MAS Holdings, has told just-style that the new plant will involve the creation of between 3,000 and 3,500 jobs directly, when it starts operations by January 20.…
SRI LANKA CLOTHING INDUSTRY BOSS CALLS FOR MORE CERTIFICATION OF TRAINING TO BOOST QUALITY AND MARKETING
SOUTH Asian clothing manufacturing hub Sri Lanka needs to better accredit its clothing sector workers’ skills through government-certified institutions to help its manufacturers trade on its higher skilled and ethical production methods to increase exports, clothing industry body, Joint Apparel Association Forum of Sri Lanka (JAAFSL) secretary general Tuly Cooray told just-style.…
AMERICAN CLOTHING SECTOR STILL CAUTIOUS ABOUT FUTURE TRADING OPPORTUNITIES, AS CHINA-US TALKS CONTINUE
While cautious optimism on the future of global trade may be currently evident in US financial markets, notably because the United States and China are apparently nearing agreement on a new interim trade deal, representatives of the textile and apparel sectors gathered in New York for the 31st annual Apparel Importers Trade & Transportation Conference on November 7 were still expressing significant caution about future prospects.…
CHINA TEXTILE AND CLOTHING OFFICIALS PUSH GREATER COOPERATION AND INVESTMENT WITH SE ASIAN NEIGHBOURS
China’s state textile planners have announced they are intensifying ties with Mekong River countries within southeast Asia in the textile and apparel sectors, contradicting assumptions that the Chinese government wants to oppose the exodus of production to this region.
On October 21, the China National Textile and Apparel Council (CNTAC) announced that it would intensify cooperation with the five SE Asian countries who are co-members of Lancang-Mekong Cooperation forum – Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam (Lancang is the name of the upper Mekong in China).…
COMPANIES TURN SUSTAINABILITY INTO PROFITS, ESQUEL INTEGRAL CONVERSATION HEARS
In every industry, including the clothing and textile sector, sustainability often means huge amount of long-term investment – be it new sewage processing systems or recycling technology. But how to get rewards from these investments? At the Integral Conversation conference held by Hong Kong-based shirt manufacturer, Esquel, in Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on November 8, companies in the fashion industry were exploring solutions.…