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In an age when competitiveness in the textile and garment manufacturing sector is increasingly measured by sustainability and on-demand production, efficiency in laundering finishing processes plays an important role for production companies. The textile sector has significant improvements it can make in sustainability – a 2017 report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, said the textiles industry’s share of the carbon budget, which is the amount of CO2 that humanity can emit while still having a chance to contain global warming, will grow from 2 per cent in 2015 to 26 per cent in 2050 if it failed to make environmental reforms [1].…

Businesses and government agencies continue to face a barrage of attacks from cyber-criminals, which have continued unabated in the past year, keeping up the pressure of frauds and hacks that have increased since Covid-19 spread worldwide in March 2020.

Organisations around the world faced more cyberattacks than ever before in 2021, say some data collectors.…

The global market for halal nutraceutical products, including vitamins and wellbeing supplements, is set to double over the next 10 years, according to new research. A report from Dubai-based Future Market Insights (https://www.futuremarketinsights.com/reports/halal-nutraceuticals-and-vaccines-market), published last July (2021), predicted sales of these products would increase from USD58.01 billion in 2021 to USD116.38 billion by 2031.…

While a projected boom in renewable diesel production is expected to disrupt the American bio-based oils and fats market, a swifter adoption of electric transport technology in Europe is likely to reduce this impact in the European Union (EU), the European Commission has projected.…

India’s large and diverse clothing and textile industry is flourishing through sustained domestic sales growth and lucrative government incentives.

Its increased reliance on man-made fibres (MMF), a sharper focus on technical textiles and the construction of mega production units have been major features defining the progress of India’s clothing and textile industry.…

The importance of ensuring auditors and accountants have good self-esteem is perhaps higher today than before, with Covid-19 loading on stress in a tough profession. It has been highlighted by new research from Nyenrode Business University, the Netherlands.

Nyenrode research conducted by Professor Herman van Brenk and co-authors assessed more than 100 audit partners and managers.…

AS the one-year anniversary (January 31, 2022) (WRONG) following the end of UK commitments to follow European Union (EU) law and treaties has just passed, food and drink companies have little positive to say about the extra red tape that has followed.…

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has declared it will impose an effective European Union (EU) ban on using plastics containing the ingredient bisphenol A (BPA) as food contact materials. It is consulting on plans to reduce a tolerable daily intake by consumers of BPA to almost zero – 0.04 nanograms per kilogram of body weight per day.…

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The growth in digital textile printing across the Americas has created a surge in demand for a wide range of digital inks, which is spreading into Latin America as well as north America. The adaptability and broad uses of digital inks, for garments, household products, technical textiles, and more, fits the diversity of the textile sector in the Americas, which spans higher wage industries such as US textile production to lower cost manufacture in central America.…

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ACCOUNTING used to be restricted to financially measurable matters of profit and loss; expenditure and revenue; taxes and subsidies; investment and liabilities. But the mathematical and statistical skills underpinning a solid set of books and filed accounts are today increasingly being used to measure the environmental and social sustainability of a product, input, production process and supply chain.…