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The benefits to knitwear manufacturers of investing in sophisticated machinery and software may be undeniable, but when an industry can call on a large pool of cheap human labour, companies need to see clear financial benefits from acquiring such tech.

This dilemma is particularly stark in south Asia textile and clothing outsourcing centres, where labour can be particularly low cost.…

The Chinese are eating more cheese than ever.

China’s cheese market size reached Chinese Yuan Renminbi CNY/RMB6.32 billion in 2020 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 8% during 2020-2025, according to a 2022 report from GlobalData, the market researcher that owns Just Food.…

The European Commission has bitten the bullet and for the first time has imposed a major financial penalty on a European Union (EU) member state that it considers so corrupt, its handling of EU funds cannot be trusted. That country is Hungary, run by the populist right-wing government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, where the EU executive on September 19 proposed suspending EUR7.5 billion in EU funding.…

Anti-fraud professionals are offered substantial amounts of training, conferences and mentoring – but a lot can be learned the old-fashioned way – with an informative book. There are guides for the relatively uninitiated. Take ‘The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Private Investigating, Third Edition: Discover How the Pros Uncover the Facts and Get to the Truth’ by Steven Kerry Brown.…

Fraud is sometimes downplayed as a ‘victimless crime’, especially when companies are the direct victims. While that is obviously untrue, frauds associated with food that can directly harm consumer health give the lie to this statement. It is one reason why food fraud is a clear priority problem for international policy makers.…

An American regulator and IT specialists have made progress in devising new encryption that they hope will protect the Internet, ecommerce, financial systems and digital signatures against computers that use quantum computing. Keith Nuthall reports.

It has been a long time coming.…

European Union (EU) confectionery, chocolate and biscuit industry association CAOBISCO has called on the EU to take a smart and integrated approach when amending and approving a planned EU directive on corporate sustainability due diligence. Proposed by the European Commission in February (2022), the law would insist that larger companies identify, prevent, end or mitigate their adverse impacts on human rights, (such as child labour and worker exploitation), and the environment, (such as pollution and biodiversity loss).…

The need to reduce the environmental impact of the dairy sector, promoting sustainability, may limit the growth of the industry internationally, but the world’s largest milk producer, India, is projected to double its turnover within the next five years, a global conference has been told.…

Ukraine’s textile and clothing manufacturing sector has been devastated by Russia’s invasion of its country from February 24, with an industry already suffering from economic weaknesses being hit hard by war.

The country’s light industry production, including textile, clothing, leather, and other materials, contracted by some 12.4% in 2019, according to Ukrlegprom, the Ukrainian Association of Enterprises of the Textile and Leather Industry) (1).…

The Indonesian government is ramping up its requirement for government-funded construction to use locally-made products by insisting paint and coatings manufacturers seeking to supply such projects use national standardisation and certifications.

This, said the chairman of the Indonesian Paint and Coatings Association, Markus Winarto, is part of a trade ministry directorate general of chemical, pharmaceutical and textile industries campaign to reduce imported products.…