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CANADIAN DIGITAL TEXTILE SECTOR LOOKS TO POST-COVID RE-SHORING FUTURE AS IT BUILDS CAPACITY
TEXTILE and clothing products sold in Canada may have significant proportions of imports, but the country does retain an important digital textile printing capacity.
Covid-19, however, has changed the market according to researchers and companies working in the sector.
“Daily, I hear comments from clients that they want to keep their business local, and that they do not want to go offshore,” said Joe Scout, sales executive at Toronto-based Club Ink, manufacturers of film industry wardrobe costumes and digitally-printed (largely non-textile) display solutions and.…
SWISS DAIRY INDUSTRY CONFIDENT IT WILL SURVIVE FAILED EU/SWISS TRADE TALKS – BUT RISKS TO COMMERCE ARE REAL
SWITZERLAND and the European Union (EU) will gain nothing by throwing away existing trade rules after long-term negotiations to create a new comprehensive EU-Swiss ‘Institutional Framework Agreement’ collapsed, dairy industry experts have told Dairy Industries International (DII).
Talks ended on May 26, when Switzerland’s Federal Council announced it would not pursue its discussions with the EU, over concerns that a major EU deal would undermine Swiss wages, give EU immigrants social benefit rights and reduce Swiss government powers to subsidise particular chosen industries.…
GLOBAL MASK MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY AND MARKET WILL REMAIN ROBUST AFTER COVID-19
INTRODUCTION
THE MANUFACTURE of protective masks has been maybe the largest growth area in the international textile and non-wovens industry during the Covid-19 pandemic. Billions of people have donned masks as they seek to avoid catching a disease that by June 11 (2021) had killed 3.7 million people and infected 175 million [1].…
THE MERGING OF FUNCTION AND DESIGN IS RESHAPING THE GLOBAL CLOTHING AND TEXTILE INDUSTRY
INTRODUCTION
The COVID-19 pandemic has had many profound social and economic impacts, but maybe one of the most important for the clothing and textile sector has been how it encouraged the meshing of design and function in products.
With consumers staying at home, they have looked for apparel to provide comfort as much as formal elegance, of more importance when working in an office or attending public evening events.…
TURKEY LOOKS TO BUILD BACK CAPACITY FOR QUALITY FABRIC MANUFACTURE
Turkey is struggling to recover its position as an important supplier of high-end and luxury fabrics, recouping sales lost on cost to Chinese rivals. The industry retains great potential strength, being the world’s fifth largest supplier of textiles selling USD12 billion exported annually, according to Istanbul Textile and Raw Materials Exporters Association (İTHİB – İstanbul Tekstil ve Hammaddeleri İhracatcilari Birlig).…
US DOLLAR’S DOMINANCE BEING CHALLENGED BY CRYPTO – BUT WILL THIS WEAKEN AMERICAN SANCTIONS AND AML ENFORCEMENT?
AMERICA has long been the global policeman of international sanctions, including breaches of AML rules, but evidence suggests that the US dollar’s use in international transactions could be weakening and is having to compete with the rising power of crypto currencies.…
EU COUNTRIES FAILING TO COMPLY WITH PUBLIC UBO REGISTER RULES
Long after the January 10, 2020, deadline set by the European Union’s (EU) 5th anti-money laundering directive (5AMLD) (1) for member states to establish public ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) registers, a Transparency International (TI) report (2) has alleged widespread non-compliance.…
CORRUPTION IN ALL EU COUNTRIES, SAYS TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL
Corruption increased in 2020 across the 27 European Union (EU) countries according to 32% of participants in Transparency International’s latest survey of over 40,000 people, the ‘Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) – European Union 2021’ (1). As regards other respondents, 44% saw no change and only 16% a fall, year-on-year.…
LIBYA’S UNIVERSITIES FACE POSSIBLE RENAISSANCE, IF NEW PEACE CAN HOLD
Nearly a year on from a spottily-respected UN-brokered ceasefire between Libya’s warring factions, the country’s universities are hoping a planned new national government will deliver sufficient stability to overhaul their higher education system. Their goal is raising standards in both teaching and research.…
GRAPHENE’S WONDER MATERIAL QUALITIES SPARKS WIDESPREAD INNOVATION IN TEXTILE SECTOR
INTRODUCTION
Graphene has been hailed as a wonder material by its promoters – and for once in the tarnished history of scientific hyperbole – these claims seem to have significant merit. The reality is that graphene does not only offer textile manufacturers the ability to improve the functionality of their products, it helps them achieve this in an environmentally sustainable way.…