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Companies in the nonwoven adhesives market are innovating to overcome geopolitical and environmental pressures forecast by market analysts to pose challenges for the next five years. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine’s impact on the global economy and energy prices; continued supply chain fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic; and growing sustainability concerns and associated regulatory changes are tough obstacles, claim market researchers OG Analysis, from Connecticut, USA.…

Cloud PLM (product lifecycle management) software solutions are growing in number and functionalities to meet fashion clients’ needs as brands strive to improve their cost savings, sustainability and transparency. 
PLM software helps to manage goods and associated data from production to disposal.…

Following the collapse of two high profile cases against mining majors Rio Tinto and ENRC (1), there have been broad calls for the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to be reformed to better tackle complex cases. This includes reforms ranging from changing the disclosure regime and its investigative model, to better funding and more cooperation with other enforcement agencies.…

Climate change and generational attitude shifts are driving the increased adoption of resale, repair and reuse initiatives in the leisure, sports and outdoor section of the apparel industry as consumer stigma associated with buying secondhand items is replaced with concern about over-production and protecting finite production resources.…

The North Sea, tapped for oil and natural gas I earnest since the 1960s by Britain, Norway, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium – is increasingly being utilised as a site for renewable energy projects, as well as carbon capture and storage.…

Gorpcore’ fashion, wearing outdoor functional clothing as fashionable streetwear, is rising in popularity, so much that much specialist apparel specifically designed for mountain environments will “never see a mountain,” a performance clothing designer has told WTiN. 

Their expensive materials and complex designs have “attracted fashion and streetwear to outdoor clothing,” Richard Dannah, an outdoor performance sportwear designer with more than 20 years’ experience in the field, told WTiN.…

The metal packaging sector does not only prosper because of its intrinsic self-worth but also because of changes in competing industries such as paper and plastic packaging – and regulation – such as recent single-use plastics bans – can boost the fortunes of can makers and fillers.…

A London-based anti-fraud unit which supports vulnerable victims of fraud has been rolled out to all 43 police forces in England and Wales. The Action Fraud National Economic Crime Victim Care Unit (NECVCU) has been operated until now by the City of London Police – England and Wales’ lead anti-fraud police force – helping London victims of fraud and cybercrime cope and recover from offences.…

The UK jail rate for fraud has fallen almost 95% in a decade, with fewer than one in 3,000 offences ending up with a criminal conviction and prison term, according to an analysis by the opposition Labour Party. It berated this “collapse” in convictions for Britain’s most common crime.…

The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) has blamed chronic underfunding of the criminal justice system for delays in trying fraud cases in courts in England and Wales, after analysing the UK government’s own data. The CBA, which represents members of the Criminal Bar in England and Wales, said delays to conclude fraud cases more than doubled in the eight years from 2014 to 2022 from an average seven months to 16.…