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THE MEAT and livestock industry is a global affair and so its trade generally has to follow the rules of World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreements, which cover the vast majority of countries – 164 members (with the 28 European states counting as one member).…

Non-wovens textile manufacturers are likely to benefit from a soaring Chinese market for their products, thanks to a fast ageing population, the government’s recently launched two-child policy, and demand created by air pollution that continues to plague the country, and international conference in Shanghai has head.…

Fast fashion is all about getting product to market quickly without over-spending. And while new technologies such as digital printing machinery can speed up the process, they can also add cost.

Guido Schlossmann, president and chief executive officer of Thailand-based consultants Synergies Worldwide, stressed to just-style that the key issue is getting the balance right.…

CLOTHING manufacturing will be completely changed by the internet and digital printing over the next five to 10 years, Lutz Walter, secretary general of European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing (ETP) – the largest European textiles research and innovations network – told just-style at a October 12-13 ‘European Textiles: Going Digital – Going High-Tech’ conference in Brussels.…

The demand for processed and packaged food is growing fast among India’s young, often aspirational and fast-expanding population. And this has made Nestlé India target a double digit annual growth in upcoming years. To realise this goal, the company is steadily introducing premium international products into India, such as its impending launch of Alpino chocolates this month (October 2016).…

THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation’s (ICAO) environment director has told Jane’s Airport Review of her delight that the ICAO Assembly has formally approved a Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), the first single industry-focused worldwide system fighting climate change.…

THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Assembly today (Oct 6) formally approved a Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), the first industry-focused global climate change system.

It aims to control carbon dioxide emissions from international aviation through global market-based measures (GMBM), with airlines reducing buying emission permits from trading systems or funding carbon offset projects that reduce CO2 emissions elsewhere.…

THE ASSEMBLY of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) wrapped up on Friday (October 7), having secured a range of decisions on safety, security, air navigation, the environment, economic growth, professional development and more.

Welcoming the key approval of a global market-based measures deal on limiting carbon, ICAO Council President Dr Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu said: Aviation can now claim its ‘Paris moment,” recalling last December’s UN climate change deal.…

THE ASIA-PACIFIC region has been regarded as the workshop of the world for most of the 21^st century, and this is especially true for the technical textile sector, where output has continued to grow, partly fuelled by growing regional demand.…

BIG data means big money, especially for telecoms and internet companies. However, the fact that they are holding, collating, processing and monetising so much data makes heavy weather for IT-based anti-fraud systems. As a result, the siren song of cloud-based anti-fraud programmes is becoming increasingly attractive as companies look to scale up their protection to take account of growing datasets.…