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BRICS COUNTRIES’ CAN SECTORS LARGELY REMAIN OPEN DURING COVID-19 CRISIS AS IMPORTANT PART OF FOOD CHAIN
AS a key part of the food production supply chain, the international can manufacturing and filling industry has largely stayed open, with some exceptions, during the Covid-19 crisis, not just in developed economies, but also in key emerging markets such as the BRICS countries.…
ROMANIA’S CLOTHING MANUFACTURING SECTOR FACES TOUGH RECRUITING CHALLENGES TO FORGE A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
ROMANIA’S clothing and textile industry is facing a recruitment crunch and experts worry that it will struggle to find a strategy to ensure it can hire sustainably to ensure long-term growth. A survey from PwC’s HR benchmarking project Saratoga released last October (2019) concluded that Romania faces an “acute shortage of workforce”, needing about one million extra workers to sustain a 3.5% economic growth by 2023.…
COATINGS APPLICATIONS OF SUPER MATERIAL GRAPHENE CONTINUE TO GROW IN SOPHISTICATION AND EFFECTIVENESS
THE MANY properties that have contributed to graphene being described as a ‘super material’ make it an increasingly attractive choice as an ingredient in a wide range of coatings with special functionalities say researchers and manufacturers. And, with Many of these properties offering environment-friendly and sustainable benefits, graphene is being considered as a key part of the coatings industries efforts to reduce carbon emissions and hence climate change.…
BULGARIA APPLIES BOTH 4 AND 5AMLD BUT CONCERNS REMAIN OVER EFFECTIVENESS OF ITS AML/CFT APPROACH
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.…
CAMBODIAN TEXTILE SOFTWARE INNOVATION COULD CUT FABRIC DEFECTS IN HALF SAY PROMOTERS
IN a bid to modernise Cambodia’s textile and garment sectors through digitalisation, the industry is introducing innovative new software next month (February) that will help improve efficiency by improving fabric handling and cutting down repeat clothing defects by almost half – in addition to making overall gains on factory productivity.…
AIRBUS HIT WITH EUR3.6 BILLION IN COMBINED UK, US AND FRENCH FINES
Airbus is to pay out EUR3.6 billion (USD4 billion) under a trio of deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) with British, French and United States authorities that were simultaneously agreed by national courts January 31 as part of a global resolution over bribes to clinch civil and military aircraft sales.…
ASIAN REGULATORY ROUND UP - HONG KONG FORGES DOUBLE TAXATION TREATY WITH NEIGHBOUR MACAO
HONG Kong has signed an avoidance of double taxation agreement with its neighbour Macao, designed to boost trade and investment in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area of southern China. The deal will ensure that any Macao tax paid by Hong Kong residents earning income from Macao will be a tax credit in Hong Kong and vice versa for Macao residents.…
US TARIFF HURTS, BUT ESQUEL FINDS A WAY THROUGH – JOHN CHEH
The US-China trade war that has been hindering commerce since 2018 has hit the Chinese clothing and textile export sector severely, but companies that have invested in manufacturing sites outside China have been better protected, Esquel CEO John Cheh has told just-style.…
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.…