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AJINOMOTO TO STRENGTHEN BUSINESSES IN ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
BY WANG FANGQING
JAPAN’S leading food seasoning manufacturer Ajinomoto Co.,Inc is expanding across Asia and the Middle East. In Jakarta, Indonesia, Ajinomoto is building a new plant at about Japanese yen JPY6 billion (US dollar USD67.7 million), scheduled to start manufacturing food seasonings in 2012.…
TOUGH TIMES FOR NORTH AFRICAN KNITWEAR MANUFACTURERS
BY PAUL COCHRANE
IT has been a tough last few years for north African knitwear, clothing and textile manufacturers, but the signs are that the knitwear sub-sector is outperforming its woven textile partners. With the European Union (EU) the region’s primary export destination, the region’s manufacturers have been hit by the end of restrictive quotas on imports from China in 2008, and then by the impact of the global financial crisis when demand slumped.…
ROBOTS INCREASINGLY IN DEMAND IN ASIA-PACIFIC PAINT AND COATINGS SECTOR
BY EMMA JACKSON
PAINT companies looking for an edge may very well find themselves turning to robots, as the industry in the Asia-Pacific region increasingly embraces automation. Cost effective, efficient and consistent, robots are indeed replacing employees in paint manufacturing processes and applications of coatings to products such as cars and machinery.…
BANGLADESH KNITWEAR WORKERS STRIKE QUELLED FOR NOW
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA
BANGLADESH’S knitwear industry owners have worked with police to quell violent strikes by workers who had been demanding higher wages in the country’s key clothing sector. The protests started June 19, spreading across four districts, and two days later 10,000s of workers pelted stones and set vehicles on fire while police used rubber bullets and tear gas in Ashulia, a clothing manufacturing centre about 30 kilometres from Dhaka.…
HIGH NOON FOR THE FUTURE OF ASBESTOS IN A TOWN CALLED ASBESTOS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TOWN of Asbestos in French-speaking Québec, Canada – named after the mineral that underpins its economy – is waiting to see whether its provincial government will approve a Canadian dollar CAD58 million (US dollar USD56 million) loan enabling an underground mine to tap an immense deposit.…
BRAZIL AND INDIA OPEN KNITWEAR MARKETS FOR POOREST COUNTRY EXPORTERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MAJOR emerging markets Brazil and India have told the World Trade Organisation (WTO) they are fulfilling commitments to open their markets duty-free to the 49 poorest countries worldwide (called ‘least developed countries’ of LDC) mostly sub-Saharan African, Asian and Pacific islands.…
COTTON YARN PRICES RISE IN THE SUBCONTINENT
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA
WITH an aim to moderate the domestic prices of cotton yarn, last week the Indian government said it would suspend a 7.5% duty concession for exporters – essentially raising the price of Indian cotton by 3.5% on world markets (because of a complex formula framing these tariffs).…
COTTON PRICES AFFECT BANGLADESH DYE IMPORTS
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA
THE BANGLADESHI demand for textile dyes and finishing chemicals such as sodium sulphate, oxalic acid and ferrous sulphate – imported from the UK, Asia and India – could deflate as the country’s US$10 billion apparel industry is facing a sudden rise in input costs.…
SWELLING COTTON YARN PRICES IN BANGLADESH SPELLS TROUBLE FOR KNITWEAR INDUSTRY
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA
A SWIFT rise in the price of south Asian cotton yarn has forced closures in Bangladesh’s US$6.43 billion knitwear export sector and pushed some manufacturers to the brink as the whole industry struggles to overcome the costing problem.…
BANGLADESH YARN PRICE RISE HITS KNITWEAR EXPORTERS
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA
THE PRICE of yarn in Bangladesh has risen 20%-30% within the last month, affecting knitwear exporters. Fazlul Hoque, president of the Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association, said this would harm the sector and hit 150 to 200 factories.…