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INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY ROUND UP – DETAILED EU KNITWEAR INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS RULES BY BECOME TOUGHER
The European Union (EU) knitwear sector is preparing to follow new detailed ‘best available techniques’ (BAT) on reducing industrial emissions as the EU considers revised legislation that might tell national regulators to take a hard line on their implementation. The European Commission has proposed a new EU industrial emissions directive that – as drafted – would tell industrial regulators to set limits on BAT-associated emissions levels “at the strictest achievable level for the specific installation” (1).…
SMART TEXTILES TARIFFS AND DUTIES – DEEP DIVE
INTRODUCTION
In the competitive and innovative world of smart textile manufacturing and sale, companies strive to maximise functionality and minimise costs. Their ingenuity is the basis of their competitiveness. But as with all industries, some costs are out of their control.…
BHUTAN SEES POTENTIAL IN NATURAL YAK WOOL AND RELATED PRODUCTS AS POTENTIAL IMPORTANT EXPORT EARNER
GOVERNMENT agencies in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan are taking steps to develop products and fabrics made from yak hair, eyeing potentially lucrative sales of a rare fabric, whose profile could be boosted by the country’s growing tourism industry.
The Bhutanese government is proactively developing handcraft traditions of spinning hair from yaks, of which more than 30,000 are herded in Bhutan’s generally mountainous terrain.…
AIRPORT OPENS IN INDIAN HIMALAYAN STATE OF SIKKIM
THE FIRST civilian airport to operate in the Himalayan Indian state of Sikkim has started operations. Building Pakyong Airport, near the state capital Gangtok, has been an engineering challenge for Indian contractor the Punj Lloyd group, which needed to build an 80.3 metres-high reinforcement wall to stabilise the surrounding mountainous terrain.…
BHUTAN STRUGGLES TO ENFORCE ITS TOBACCO BAN
THE HIMALAYAN kingdom of Bhutan may have a ban on smoking in public spaces under the Tobacco Control Act of 2010, but it is not hard to find smokers flouting this law. The legislation specified sporting centres as public spaces under the act, but when Tobacco Journal International visited the national stadium in the capital Thimphu to watch the opening game of this season’s Bhutan Pepsi Football League on April 21, it followed young fans walk to washroom at half-time to light up smuggled cigarettes.…
OLIVER MIRZA, CEO DR OETKER INDIA, SAYS HIS COMPANY WILL MAINTAIN STRATEGY OF PROMOTING ENJOYABLE FOOD
High on the agenda of Dr Oetker India managing director and chief executive officer Oliver Mirza is making India a major production hub, not just for manufacturing packaged foods scoring sales in India’s growing markets, but also for exports.
In a wide-ranging interview with just-food on the sidelines of the India Food Forum, staged in Mumbai last month (January 17-19), Mirza said that by 2020, Dr Oetker India was targeting sales of Indian Rupees INR10 billion (USD155 million) of which its sub-brand FunFoods will account for INR5 billion (USD 77.50 million).…
SOUTH ASIAN DEMAND FOR PAINTS AND COATINGS GROWS, BUT REGIONAL TRADE STILL NEEDS DEVELOPMENT
THE PAINT and coatings industry in south Asia maybe thriving, but regional trade between countries is not – being restricted to exports of pigments, resins, solvents and additives from India to its neighbouring countries. Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives, Bhutan and Afghanistan, as well as regional giant India, are all members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), but they import most of their paint and coating raw materials.…
TURKISH TEXTILES GROUPS INTERESTED TO RELOCATE UNITS TO BANGLADESH
Turkish textile entrepreneurs have been signalling a willingness to relocate their units to Bangladesh, tapping into the south Asian nation’s geo-economic significance, officials and diplomats say.
Interest was notably shown by Turkish investors in week-long seminars on Trade & Investment Opportunities in Bangladesh’, organised by the Bangladesh embassy in Ankara, in April and this month (May), in five Turkish cities, including the capital Ankara, key textile production centre Istanbul, Kayseri, Bursa and Kocaeli province.…
INDIAN AYURVEDIC PERSONAL CARE COMPANY TAKES ON MULTINATIONALS
The phenomenal rise of India’s Patanjali Ayurveda Ltd, that has upset the strategies of many established cosmetic companies in the country, is credited to its lower price, good quality and increasing demand for herbal products. Credit is also given to unorthodox marketing techniques backed by the popularity of yoga guru Baba Ramdev, who despite having no formal relationship with the company is closely linked to the brand.…
COUNTRIES MULL CARBON NEUTRALITY IN WAKE OF PARIS CLIMATE CONFERENCE – BUT WILL THEY ACHIEVE IT?
THE PARIS conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) last December, of COP21, made a commitment to create a carbon-neutral world between 2050 and 2100. This means that governments and international organisations must devise policies to ensure the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by human activity equals the amount that that trees, soil and oceans can absorb naturally preventing the build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere.…