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Taiwan’s major packaging and packaging machine industries – with more than 1,000 factories – have been prospering in through proactive service delivery. They have helped the country’s local and overseas packaging value chain in handling and using their goods and services, including eco-plastics.…

Sri Lanka’s clothing sector is banking on newly elected left-wing President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s commitment to strengthen the country’s support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and fast track debt restructuring to bring stability to the country.

For the country’s export-heavy apparel sector “stability is essential to retain global competitiveness, attract new investment, and sustain jobs,” Sri Lanka’s apparel industry body Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF) secretary general Yohan Lawrence, told Just Style.…

The Ghanaian government has welcomed an “unprecedented increase” in cocoa prices in the 2023/24 season of 129.36% year-on-year as the market responded to production declines worldwide – costing chocolate manufacturers dear. Ghana’s food and agriculture minister Bryan Acheampong said Ghanaian cocoa prices had risen from Ghanaian Cedi GHS20,928/tonne (USD1,325) and GHS1,308 (USD82.80) per 64kg bag in September 2023 to GHS48,000/tonne (USD3,030) or GH3,000 (USD190) per 64kg bag as the season wrapped last month (September 2024).…

In a “scary” world that is moving faster, adhesive businesses should assess opportunities to innovate, focusing on their “your sense of timing”, innovation expert Peter Hinssen told participants in the FEICA 2024 European Adhesive & Sealant Conference. Speaking in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands, Hinssen, partner at consultancy nexxworks, told members of the Association of the European Adhesive and Sealant Industry (FEICA) companies should not wait until they are at their peak or past it, to reinvent themselves: “That doesn’t work anymore.…

Portuguese textile and garment industry executives have told Just Style how they can attract more international buyers and export sales at a tough time for the sector, through its sustainability, quality, innovations and proximity to main markets.
They were speaking at the 60+4 edition of Modtissimo, the oldest international textile fair in the Iberian Peninsula, in Matosinhos, northern Portugal, on September 12-13 (1).…

With the global commodities market valued at USD121.2 trillion in 2024 and expected to generate USD136.8 trillion in 2029 (1), the scope for fraudsters to make money from this sector is vast. German statistical service Statista notes that commodities sales have latent augmentation, given that it all includes emissions trading systems expanding worldwide, along with energy products, food and drink, precious and industrials metals and more.…

Venezuela, whose July presidential election has been contested by its political opposition as fraudulent, is facing an increase in financial controls having been grey listed by FATF this June (2024). This was over failures to respond to the global body’s requests for improvements in AML/CFT.…

Major emerging markets such as Vietnam are regarded by the west as sourcing hubs for products and packaging, but this south-east Asian country of 100 million people is now a major metal packaging market. According to recent forecasting from India-based market researcher Mordor Intelligence, the Vietnamese metal packaging market is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.07% from 2024 through 2029, growing from USD2.11 billion to USD2.45 billion (1).…

The international can manufacturing and filling industry is continuing to face increasing regulatory pressure regarding certain food contact chemicals, which while protecting cans against corrosion, may also harm consumer health and the environment.

Dubbed by environmental groups as ‘forever chemicals’ because they take so long to degrade, these substances include bisphenols, phthalates and PFAS (per and poly-fluorinated alkyl substances).…

THE EUROPEAN and international dyeing sector will effectively lose the ability to use inks manufactured using solvents made with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) under new European Union (EU) measures to ban fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases). These are considered 100 to 24,000 times more harmful to the climate than carbon dioxide, and hence controls are tightening.…