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TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE CAN PAY DIVIDENDS FOR TEXTILE SECTOR
INTRODUCTION
NEW technology can deliver effective maintenance strategies to clothing and textile manufacturers, helping them go beyond reactive and proactive maintenance, moving into the more sophisticated world of prediction. The goal is to deliver an optimum maintenance strategy that enables manufacturers to get the most value out of their plant and equipment by spending the least amount of time, resources and money to deliver effective performance.…
SOYBEAN OIL - A COVID-19 SUCCESS STORY THAT MIGHT LAST
With global markets and daily consumer habits being disrupted for almost a year due to the ongoing global Covid-19 pandemic, some oils and fats sales have grown – and a key example is soybean oil. This is true worldwide, from North and South America, to Africa, Asia, and Europe.…
NONWOVENS COMPANIES NEED TO KEEP CLOSE EYE ON DETAIL OF SINGLE-USE PLASTIC BANS
SINGLE use plastics bans being brought in across the world may not cover all nonwovens products, but they certainly are having an impact on the industry as it parses often complex rules coming into force.
A key piece of legislation is the European Union’s (EU) so-called ‘single use plastics directive’ (1) which has deadlines passing in 2021.…
HOW DEEP IS THE LEBANESE FINANCIAL CRISIS NOW?
Brief:
The Lebanese economy has been suffering from a set of complex crises that became acutely evident by the end of 2019. At that time, a dramatic financial system collapse started, affecting various aspects of public life. The damage caused by this crisis is examined by this paper.…
COVID-19 INSPIRES DEVELOPMENT OF ANTI-VIRAL KNITWEAR
COVID-19 has unleashed a significant boom in demand for apparel and other wearables that are anti-viral, cleansing consumers’ bodies of viruses, as well as bacteria.
Companies making fibres and yarns have been quick to tout anti-viral technologies. Examples include HeiQ Materials AG – a Switzerland based textile innovation specialist, which has been selling a new anti-virus textile treatment HeiQ Viroblock NPJ03, added to textile products during final processing and utilising anti-microbial silver, whose charge attracts viruses to spherical liposomes which deplete the virus membrane of cholesterol, allowing the silver to kill them.…
BRAZIL’S HEALTHY FROZEN-FOOD MARKET SOARS DURING PANDEMIC
It takes minutes for any Brazilian on Instagram to be bombarded with ads of modern companies selling exquisite items from tofu tikka masala stew to cauliflower risotto. But these are not from restaurants heavily impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and now use social media to survive.…
COVID-19 HAS ENCOURAGED INDIAN FOOD COMPANIES CONSIDERING AUTOMATION TO MAKE THESE INVESTMENTS
In India, the increased demand for branded food products and workplace restrictions on industrial labour caused by Covid-19 has inspired automation among food manufacturers. This investment is expected to standardise and increase the quality of products well into the future, well beyond the end of the pandemic.…
BREXIT TO SPELL COSTS AND DELAY FOR CAN MANUFACTURERS, SAY EXPERTS
THE UNITED Kingdom’s definitive exit from the European Union (EU) on December 31, 2020, after an 11-month transition period, will severely disrupt the UK and European can manufacturing industry, experts have told CanTech International. That said, industry figures acknowledge however that, by avoiding blanket tariffs and a ‘no-deal’ Brexit, the UK/EU Trade & Cooperation Agreement (TCA) (1) signed on Christmas Eve did head off economic disaster. …
SHIFTING AND VARIED LABELLING RULES ARE MAJOR COMPIANCE CHALLENGE FOR INTERNATIONAL BEAUTY BUSINESS
REGULATIONS affecting what information can, should and cannot be placed on personal care product packaging are among the most demanding of compliance issues facing beauty manufacturers.
One reason is that this is both a very international field and a dynamic one – rules change all the time and vary widely from market to market.…
BREXIT LEADS TO EXPORT RED TAPE HEADACHES FOR BRITISH CHEESEMAKERS
THE 11TH-HOUR trade deal UK and European Union (EU) negotiators struck last Christmas Eve reassured many dairy traders, but British cheesemakers now face major challenges. New expensive and complicated bureaucracy for UK-EU trades is fouling-up overseas dairy sales, and even pricing smaller companies out of the EU market.…