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PAKISTAN TEXTILE SECTOR CONCERNED OVER TWO YEAR DELAY IN UNVEILING NATIONAL TEXTILE POLICY
A protracted delay in announcement of a long-awaited government Pakistan Textile Policy 2020-25, despite drafts being debated for more than a year, is causing unrest and disappointment within the country’s textile business community. They say investors are being deterred from sinking much needed money into the country’s textile industry in the absence of any clear sectoral government policy.…
TEXTILE COATINGS - DEEP DIVE ARTICLE
INTRODUCTION
Think of finishing and some consumers may conclude that integrating chemicals with or within fibres will always be the most effective way to create a performance or protective textile. But the reality is that applying coatings to textiles and yarns is anything but superficial as a finishing technique.…
LIBERALISATION OF CANNABIS IS EASING CONTROLS ON HEMP FIBRE PRODUCTION
The increasing decriminalisation and legalisation of cannabis as a recreational and medicinal substance has encouraged the liberalisation of hemp as a fibre crop, whose use in some jurisdictions had been restricted because of laws against the plant’s chemically-active ingredients.
This is starting to change, most notably in the USA, which used to have severe anti-marijuana laws, but which now has 18 states that have legalised recreational cannabis use.…
NON-CHEMICAL FINISHING AIDED BY DIGITISATION – DEEP DIVE
INTRODUCTION
Textile and clothing companies are well aware of two major trends driving sales in the industry – sustainability and digitisation. One is driven by the need to adopt sustainable manufacturing processes and materials, to boost sales amongst environmentally conscious consumers and reduce financial and regulatory costs associated with pollution and carbon emissions.…
PORTUGUESE HALAL MARKET GROWING TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE AND SIGNIFICANT FUTURE
The food halal market for Portugal, a largely Christian country that was in the early Middle Ages part of the Muslim world, has been expanding, serving a growing local Muslim community and Muslim tourists keen to taste Portuguese food.
Between 711 and 1249, most of Portugal was under Muslim rule, which influenced its language and culture.…
EU ROUND UP – EU MAKES ‘ALARMINGLY SLOW PROGRESS’ IN ASSESSING BIOCIDES, WARNS EUROPEAN COMMISSION
The European Commission has warned that European Union (EU) member states are making “alarmingly slow progress” in reviewing the safety of active biocidal substances on sale before May 2000 – covering most products on sale. In a review of the operation of the EU biocidal product regulation (BPR) of 2012, the Commission said that while the system was “fully operational”, there has been a “substantial delay in active substance approval,” whose completion deadline has already been extended from 2014 to 2024.…
PETROFAC FINED GBP77 MILLION OVER MIDDLE EAST BRIBES
Oil-service provider Petrofac is to pay out a total GBP77 million (USD104.6 million) after pleading guilty to seven separate counts of failure to prevent bribery to win over GBP2.6 billion (USD3.5 billion) in Middle East contracts. In a case brought by the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Her Honour Judge Deborah Taylor October 4 sentenced the Jersey-based contractor in Southwark Crown Court to pay GBP47,197,640 (USD64,208,613) in fines, a GBP22,836,985 (USD31,066,704) confiscation order plus the SFO’s GBP7 million (USD9.5 million) costs.…
WILL THE ARAB POLITICAL MIND REMAIN CAPTIVE TO THE HISTORY?
Only a foolish person would deny the importance of culture and historical consciousness on the present behaviour of humankind, and that counts maybe double for the Arab world, where citizens often view society through a more ideological or religious lens than – say – in the west.…
THE CORONAVIRUS HAS FUELLED RENEWED GEOSTRATEGIC COMPETITION
A key political question emerging from the Coronavirus pandemic has been how the disease might readjust relations between this world’s two largest powers – the United States and China. The two countries have had two very different experiences of Covid-19, which reflect their contrasting social and political systems.…
THE HAND OF POLITICS AND THE HUMAN SOUL: COMRADES OR SERVANTS?
While the Arab world certainly has a political culture of its own, there are many universal human truths that its politics shares with the rest of the globe, even if – perhaps – tensions can be more intense in this region than others.…