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WATER CONSERVATION
Keith Nuthall
THE FINDINGS of an EU funded research project for tanneries could help EU textile manufacturers dramatically reduce their water usage. The TANNET programme should enable Europe’s tanneries conserve 90 per cent of their current water use, especially through internal recycling, said the European Commission.…
SPACE CLOTH
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency is encouraging the European Union’s textile industry to take advantage of the technological advances that it has been making while developing satellite and rocket missions. Staging a workshop in Lille, France, (July 4-5), the agency said companies should avail themselves of new textiles promoting thermal insulation, bioactive materials, (including those with wearable sensors and computers), and textiles capable of reflecting and withstanding great heat.…
ARSENAL CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TRADEMARK owners can protect their brands in court when other traders sell goods using the mark, even when they admit publicly that their products are not ‘official’ and are in effect promoting a brand, a European Court of Justice advocate general has claimed.…
RULES OF ORIGIN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TALKS held between the USA and India over a complaint regarding American rules of origin legislation for clothing and textile products have failed, with New Delhi formally requesting that a World Trade Organisation disputes panel be established to settle the row; the Indian government claims that they unfairly favour the US and European Union textile industries.…
TEE SHIRT PORN
BY MONICA DOBIE
A CANADIAN discount retailer called Zellers, a subsidiary of the Hudson’s Bay Company, raised eyebrows when one of its customers in British Columbia complained that a children’s Request brand t-shirt purchased from the store featuring a website design with the address, cute.com…
CHINA ATC
Keith Nuthall
CHINA has sought to bury grumbling amongst its fellow World Trade Organisation member countries that it has been slow to implement promises made on joining the institution to liberalise its imports, by fulfilling a promise to publish quotas under its Agreement on Textiles and Clothing commitments.…
BATA GLOOM
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo
THE BATA Shoe Company of Ceylon Ltd is continuing to make financial losses recording a loss of SLRupees 28.6 million (US$300,000) for the first quarter ended March 31, 2002, up from a loss of SLRupees 24.3 million (US$250,000) in the comparative period the previous year.…
LIIKANEN SPEECH
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN footwear industry has been encouraged to take advantage of the new Euro 16.2 billion European Union Sixth Framework Programme for research, to develop high added value products and exploit new information technologies in a bid to defend its hard-pressed position on world markets.…
EU-RUSSIA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A RUSSIA-European Union summit has agreed that a timetable needs to be established to improve standards in the Russian nuclear industry. The two sides also agreed to frame a future agreement on regulating the import of nuclear materials into the European Union.…
GEORGIA HUNT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency assembled team has been searching for two abandoned Strontium 90 generators in western Georgia, the Caucasus. They are highly radioactive and had been used by the former USSR military as thermo-electric generators for communication stations.…