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When Adrian Bressan started working in the Australian knitwear industry 50 years ago, there were hundreds of competing factories in Australia – but today, his A&B Knitwear, in Melbourne is one of only few left. “With all the cheap imports, the other knitters closed down,” Mr Bressan said.…

Product lifecycle management (PLM) systems help apparel companies share information more efficiently and plan for future lines more accurately as time-to-market shrinks.

Software such as the WFX Cloud PLM helps speed up companies’ processes from product concept and design to delivery at stores, said Jatin Paul, CEO of WFX (World Fashion Exchange).…

 Australia’s cotton industry is anticipating a significantly reduced yield in the 2014/15 harvest if the ongoing drought in the country’s cotton-growing regions does not ease.

Adam Kay, CEO of peak industry body Cotton Australia, told just-style.com that if the very dry conditions continued, preliminary forecasts were for a total harvest of around 2.5 million bales in the 2014/15 season, compared to the nearly 4 million bales harvested in 2013/14.…

The European Commission is poised to intervene in Europe’s fruit and vegetable markets following Moscow’s food embargo and may withdraw supplies of vegetables to avoid a collapse in prices, a Commission spokesman told just-food.com

Roger Waite, a spokesman for the Commission, said the measures would be proposed within days and could also include free distribution of vegetables to charitable groups.…

Taiwan’s main airport, Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, is to undergo a major expansion, increasing its annual passenger capacity from 32 million to 60 million by 2030. Located halfway between the capital Taipei and the island’s industrial heartland along its western coast, the airport is planned to become the centerpiece of the government’s highly ambitious Taoyuan Aerotropolis project, which with an estimated investment of Taiwan New Dollar TWD600 billion (USD20 billion).…

THE BAN imposed by Russia at the beginning of August on dairy products from the European Union (EU), US, Canada, Norway and Australia will cause disturbances on the European and world markets, the European Dairy Association (EDA) warned the European Commission on August 13.…

European Union (EU) meat production is projected to start growing in 2014, according to the European Commission, as Europe’s economic recovery solidifies. This could be up 0.7% year-on-year for beef, veal, pigmeat, poultry, sheep and goat meat. However, exports might fall for pigmeat and poultry, with Russian import bans especially causing problems for pigmeat.…

THE USA is a key market for Australian beef and lamb exports and its importance is growing: Australia’s beef exports by volume to America shooting up by 53% in the first half of 2014, [calendar year] compared with the same period in 2013” making America its largest beef export destination so far, Meat & Livestock Australia chief economist Tim McRae told globalmeatnews.com.…

For nurses coming to work in Britain from overseas, a key requirement is always going to be proficiency in English. A Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) spokesperson noted that under European legislation the NMC “is not allowed to ask EU [European Union]-trained EU nationals to demonstrate language competency as a requirement for registration in the UK.”…

INDIAN knitwear manufacturers are hoping for a major growth impetus because of industry-friendly policies being rolled out by the new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government. “We are very optimistic about the new government,” Naval Saraf, proprietor of Super Knit Industries, a sock manufacturing company in Mumbai told Knitting International.…