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INDIAN DYERS LOOK TO EUROPE FOR QUALITY EQUIPMENT, CONFERENCE TOLD
ENVIRONMENTAL concerns and market demands for higher quality are prompting Indian technical textile manufactures to switch to modern dyeing machines imported from Europe, industry players have stressed at a New Delhi conference.
“Many companies are acquiring machines from [Italy’s] Obem, [Germany’s] Thies and Loris Bellini,” also of Italy, said Shashi Kant Gaur, general manager of Ludhiana-based fibre dyeing and spinning yarns manufacturer Yogindera Worsted Limited, “people are more confident with the European technology”.…
WESTERN BRANDS LOOK CLOSER TO HOME FOR SENSITIVE SOURCING
IT is a long way from China, east Asia and south Asia to the key developed world markets or Europe and America. And with fashion being so dynamic, demand for a line could have dampened in the months between placing an order and receiving delivery.…
BRANDS LOOK FOR ALTERNATIVES TO CHINA
WITH Chinese clothing and textile manufacturers struggling with rising costs – through inflation, wage increases and currency adjustments – international brands have been shopping around for new sourcing countries. There are plenty of options, especially in China’s east Asia neighbourhood, where Vietnam and Cambodia have developed lower cost centres.…
BRUSSELS WANTS ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL INFORMATION DISCLOSED BY LARGE COMPANIES
JUST as the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) was launching its consultation on the draft International Integrated Reporting Framework in London, the European Commission was pushing in Brussels for large companies to disclose information on social and environmental matters.
The European Union’s internal market Commissioner Michel Barnier tabled on April 16 an amendment to the EU’s fourth (78/660/EEC) and seventh (83/349/EEC) directives on annual and consolidated accounts.…
NEW BIOMASS BIOCOAL COULD OFFER CARBON NEUTRAL SOLID FUEL OPTION FOR THE FUTURE
A SLOW revolution in the use of biomass for firing or co-firing power generation is picking up pace this year as a number of competing technologies for the production of ‘biocoal’ move more convincingly towards full commercialisation.
Biocoal produced through torrefaction – in which dry biomass such as wood, paper, food waste and even sewerage waste is slow-heated anoxically (to avoid combustion) at 200C to 300C to reduce moisture and drive off low-energy volatile chemicals – offers slightly degraded fuel with lower emissions and carbon footprints (it is carbon neutral) than traditional biomass and, certainly, than coal.…
ECJ SAYS AUSTRIA MUST INCREASE NUMBER OF AIRPORT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has ruled Austria has broken European Union law by staging environmental impact assessments (EIA) only when airport expansions increase annual air traffic movements by 20,000 or make certain runway modifications. Judges said this was arbitrary and that EU directive 85/337/EEC insists EIAs be held into any project “likely to have significant effects on the environment”.…
EIB INVESTS IN COOK ISLANDS AND SAMOA AIRPORTS
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) will invest USD1.1 million in improving airports in the Pacific Ocean countries of Samoa and the Cook Islands, which is associated with New Zealand. The money will improve runway safety at the Cook Islands’ Rarotonga airport, upgrade its terminal and examine ways of using more renewable energy.…
BRAZIL FACES BOOM IN AUTO PRODUCTION
WITH the Brazilian government actively deterring automotive imports and working to encourage the construction of auto plants on Brazilian soil, domestic and international car companies are setting up new plants in Brazil at a steady clip.
The country is already the world’s seventh largest automotive producer.…
BRUSSELS PROPOSES LAW FORCING MAJOR EU COMPANIES TO DISCLOSE CYBER ATTACKS
MAJOR companies within the European Union (EU) suffering from major cybercrime attacks will have to inform regulators under a proposed EU directive on network and information security. If the legislation is approved by the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers, it would assign that duty to operators of critical infrastructure in the financial, transport, energy and health sectors; IT services, such as app stores, e-commerce platforms, internet payment systems, cloud computing companies, search engines and social network; plus public administrations.…
EU SCIENTISTS DEVELOP NANOPATTERN DEPOSITION TECHNIQUES
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-backed research project has developed new ways of applying patterns within deposited layers of nanoparticles that can be adjusted to create special properties such as super-waterproofing. Hungarian and Finnish researchers working for the CompNanoALD have developed atomic layer deposition (ALD) techniques, which can “deposit one atomic layer of a material at a time in a step-wise manner”, said Dr Imre Miklós Szilágyi, of Budapest University of Technology and Economics, in a European Commission note.…