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THE RUSSIAN government has said that its promotion of manufacturing capacity to deliver raw materials for both the domestic standard textile and technical textile industry will fill structural shortages by 2020-2021.

Statements released by the ministry of trade and industry have stressed the potential impact of a project promoted by the federal government, the Ivanovo oblast and private investors, to build an Ivanovo Polyester Complex, north-east of Moscow.…

THE SERIOUS challenges affecting the growth of the Indian nuclear industry – including the falling cost of competing renewable energy, scarcity of finance, a shortage of skilled manpower and negative public perceptions – have concentrated the minds of industry leaders meeting at the 10th Nuclear Energy Conclave 2018, held in New Delhi.…

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS) have endorsed a project named ‘Greening Vietnam’s textile sector through improving water management and energy sustainability’ with the declared aim of transforming the Vietnamese textile industry into a more environmentally friendly and sustainable one.…

WITH environmental concerns increasingly important worldwide as a key plank of sustainable development, the role that effective geo-textiles can play in ensuring infrastructure performs effectively in the longer term is underpinning demand for these products.

In June 2017, Global Market Insights released a report on geotextile market size by material, application, region, price, market share and forecasts for 2017–2024, which stated that “positive application outlook in construction, agriculture, erosion control, and drainage should drive geotextile market size” globally.…

FACED with ever tightening restrictions on production, marketing and distribution, the tobacco sector is keeping a close eye on how the legalisation in Canada of another largely smoked product – cannabis – rolls out. On October 17, 2018, the consumption and cultivation of cannabis in Canada will become legal, making it the first G7 country to legalise recreational cannabis nationwide.…

AN ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) report has concluded that carbon pricing worldwide is still too low to force sufficient changes in behaviour and economic activity to limit climate change. The shortfall of carbon prices and real climate costs – estimated at EUR30 per tonne of CO2 – is 76.5% this year (2018), said the OECD.…

AMERICAN poultry exporters will gain improved access to Canadian markets under the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which was announced late Sunday night. (September 30). The deal has created new duty-free quotas for US chicken and turkey producers, chipping away at the Canadian tariff protection which underpins its supply management system.…

Are biohacking and new implanted technologies the new frontier in cyber fraud? That was the question addressed at an event organised by the Fraud Advisory Panel, an independent cross-border organisation that fights fraud, on October 18th, at the Chartered Accountants Hall in London’s Moorgate.…

COLLABORATION between processors and national institutions is the key to boosting the

downtrodden dairy industry in Senegal, agriculture experts have warned, with European

suppliers denying their cheap exports are to blame for a dearth of dairy development in the west

African country.…

WITH an estimated USD1.5 trillion lost to the global economy because of bribes, the World Bank is pushing for a diverse array of technology to be deployed – it is a call being answered with anti-graft systems being installed worldwide.

Reducing corruption “is a priority” for the World Bank, it said in a briefing note in September 2017.…