Search Results for: America

WHEN American personal care product giant Johnson & Johnson opened its shared-services centre in Prague during 2006, it employed 12 people and provided only in-group procure-to-pay services. Currently this Johnson & Johnson finance centre is the largest of the five centres the company operates worldwide in terms of staff numbers as well as the scope of services it provides to internal business partners.…

Latin America’s cosmetics and personal care products sector has boomed as consumers take advantage of their rising disposable incomes. The region (including Mexico) accounted for 17% of global sales in the beauty and personal care industry, according to market analysts Euromonitor International in 2013. …

The concept of closed loop supply chains sounds a laudable, if possibly Utopian, ideal: a virtuous circle of production from cradle – not to grave – but back to cradle again.

Right now, no company comes near to claiming that its whole production process not only produces zero waste, but operates within a cycle of perpetual sustainability.…

When India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi swept the just-concluded general elections riding on the slogan in Hindi ‘achche din aane wale hain’ – which means good days are coming soon – Indian garment exporters agreed.

With Modi’s BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) government assuming power on May 26, the new textile minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar’s statement that he wants to project ‘Brand India’ abroad and boost garment exports has given exporters confidence that government help will be offered.…

LIVE pigs imported from the USA and Canada will henceforth be tested for porcine epidemic diarrhoea (PED) to prevent the disease being introduced to Europe from north America.

The controls have been approved by the European Union’s (EU) standing committee on the food chain and animal health (SCOFCAH).…

Nonwovens are taking on an increasingly important role in creating more sustainable vehicles, particularly in interiors, offering lightweight materials reducing fuel usage, recyclability, and the use of green feedstocks such as plant and waste food material.

The US-based global Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry (INDA) estimates there was about 560,000 tonnes of nonwovens in global automotive usage in 2013, said Dave Rousse, INDA’s president.…

Global steel transformation giant Bekaert is awaiting a European Commission decision on whether its plans to acquire Pirelli Tyre’s steel tyre cord business can go ahead. Bekaert expects a ruling this month (July) on the USD350 million deal to expand the company’s share of the global market from Brussels’ competition directorate general.…

INDIA’S newly launched Knitting Technology Mission (KTM) project is primarily trying to diversify the country’s knitwear exports with a shift away from cotton to manmade fibre based knitted goods. The KTM committee chairman Dr A Sakthivel has hailed the project as a “platform to add value across the supply chain.”…

While Brazilians have been happy with the success of their FIFA World Cup party, the prospects of the country’s confectionery industry are rather more mixed.

Sales of sweet confectionery have been soft as consumers turn away from sugary snacks in favour of healthier snacks.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission wants the see the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) recognise each other’s list of substances that can be used in cosmetic products, as well as the list of substances that cannot be used. This is according to a negotiating position that is being debated in Washington DC this week during the current round of negotiations for a transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP).…