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CHINESE PAINT SECTOR LOOKING TO GREEN-UP, EVEN AS GROWTH IS STILL ROBUST
ENVIRONMENTAL enforcement and product safety improvements were top priorities for China National Coatings Industrial Association, president Sun Lian Ying, when addressing her organisation’s annual summit, held in March (2018) in Jiangsu province. The meeting launched a ‘Green Development – Six Actions of China’s Coatings Industry Plan’ for the industry, which included pledges to pledges to reduce pollution in production plants while increasing the industry’s range of environmentally-friendly, highly innovative products.…
ACCA ACCOUNTANT EXCELS AS HEAD OF COMPANY CONNECTING BANGLADESH TO BROADBAND
ENDING UP an entrepreneur was perhaps Arif Al Islam’s “Plan B”, but the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)-qualified financial professional has more than proved his business smarts.
“I had to build the company from a scratch,” says Mr Islam, who is now managing director and chief executive officer of Dhaka-based fibre optics major Summit Communications Ltd.…
BURBERRY EYES CASHMERE QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS IN AFGHANISTAN TO BOOST SUPPLIES
DESPITE being the world’s third largest cashmere producer next to China and Mongolia, according to research from the University of California, Davis, Afghanistan’s cashmere industry is heavily underutilised, according to industry experts.
Afghanistan in the previous decade (to 2010) produced around 7% of the world’s raw (greasy) cashmere, after China (72%) and Mongolia (18%) say UC Davis researchers (see https://afghanag.ucdavis.edu/other-topics/files/market/chasmere-value-chain.pdf).…
EU PROJECTS TO TACKLE COUNTERFEIT TEXTILES FROM SE ASIA
EUROPEAN Union (EU) customs’ long-standing struggle with counterfeit textile products coming from south-east Asia and the resulting economic losses have sparked the EU to invest in two initiatives aiming at preventing the trade of fake goods.
IP Key South East Asia (IP Key SEA) and ASEAN Regional Integration Support from the EU (ARISE Plus), both launched this April, will be strongly promoting the protection of intellectual and industrial property rights in the textile and other impacted sector.…
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT PLANS TO DOUBLE EXPORTS OF TEXTILE PRODUCTS BY 2025
THE RUSSIAN government has confirmed plans to double its country’s exports of textile products by 2025, according to the state press-service. In comments sent to WTiN.com, Russia’s deputy minister of industry and trade Viktor Yevtukhov, currently responsible for the development of Russia’s textile sector, said his administration was optimistic, with exports of Russian textile products currently show good results.…
ITALIAN PAINT PRODUCERS LOOK ABROAD, INNOVATE TO BOOST SALES
THE SCALE of Italy’s paints and varnishes sector remained relatively unchanged through 2017, according to AVISA, a division of Federchimica, the national chemicals industry association. Werther Colonna, president of AVISA, told Polymers Paint Colour Journal (PPCJ) that the sector suffered a difficult year in 2017, marked by a succession of ups and downs, which translated into fluctuating monthly sales.…
SOUTHEAST ASIA FACES UP TO LOOMING OIL AND GAS DECOMMISSIONING CHALLENGE
THE ASIA-PACIFIC (APAC) region’s oil and gas sector faces an unprecedented level of decommissioning for which it is under-prepared and lacks experience, analysts have warned. Unclear regional government regulations coupled with a lack of local expertise mean that companies and regulators face a steep learning curve, high initial costs and the potential for mistakes, according to the consultancy group Wood Mackenzie’s latest analysis.…
CHINA NUCLEAR SECTOR WILL KEEP EXPORTING – EVEN IF HIT BY NEW TRUMP USA TARIFFS
CHINA’S plans to become a significant exporter of nuclear power technology to the USA may have been targeted by new tariffs announced in June by the USA, but the Chinese nuclear sector anticipated the move and is pushing ahead with its plans to create a comprehensive supply chain.…
ASIA PACIFIC’S DIVERSE NONWOVENS PRODUCTION GROWS SUSTAINABLY, AS LOCAL DEMAND DIVERSIFIES
THE ASIA-Pacific region has many of the elements needed to create a burgeoning nonwovens market and industry. It has growing middle class consumption of basis personal products and continued manufacturing and infrastructural expansion for industrial nonwovens. These items can be supplied my new mass-production in emerging market countries and niche lines from the region’s richer developed industrial economies.…
EU ROUND UP – ECHA AND CEFIC SIGN DEAL AS REACH REGISTRATION ENDS
THE EUROPEAN Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and European chemical industry association CEFIC have signed a cooperation agreement to aid the implementation of REACH regulations within the European Union (EU). The deal follows the export of the last REACH registration deadline – on May 31 (2018), when chemical substances produced or imported in the EU in quantities of between 1 and 100 tonnes annually had to be registered with ECHA.…