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The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) has issued an ‘Inaugural Jurisdictional Guide’ helping governments adopt or use ISSB standards. Its information is designed to boost transparency in implementation, offering practical help in drafting regulations and policies. https://www.ifrs.org/content/dam/ifrs/supporting-implementation/adoption-guide/inaugural-jurisdictional-guide.pdf; https://www.ifrs.org/content/dam/ifrs/supporting-implementation/adoption-guide/regulatory-implementation-programme-outline.pdf; https://dart.deloitte.com/iGAAP/home/sustainability-reporting/sustainability-reporting-literature/issb-guidance-requests-for-information…

With Vietnam named the top exporter to the United States of products covered by the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in 2023, Vietnamese garment manufacturers that use undeclared Chinese cotton inputs are now risking being caught by isotopic testing. These can link cotton to specific geographic areas by analysing the concentration of stable elements like carbon and hydrogen present in both the crop and the environment in which it has been grown.…

India is boosting its biomass energy production by augmenting supply chains, providing financial incentives and issuing mandates for thermal power producers to supplement coal with agricultural residues. Local entrepreneurship, technological innovations and a pressing need to control air pollution are also increasing generation of biomass energy, which according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) ‘India Energy Outlook 2021’ (1), could supply 15% of the country’s total energy demand, but only currently supplies 2.3%.…

French paint and coating companies are performing well, with the industry recording a EUR5 billion turnover in 2023, said Gilles Richard, managing director of Paris-based Fipec (France’s federation of paints, inks, colours, glues and adhesives and wood preservation industries/Fédération des Industries des Peintures, Encres, Couleurs, Colles et Adhésifs, Préservation du Bois), which represents around 150 businesses.…

The international sportswear industry is trying to develop new strategies, often using ultramodern technology, to deal with continued inventory challenges, overstocking and demand volatility – particularly intense in recent years.

In a January 2024 report, ‘Time to move: Sporting goods 2024’ (1), New York, US-based global management consulting firm McKinsey & Co and the Berne, Switzerland-based World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) noted that sportswear companies “continued to struggle with inventories” in 2023, largely due to overstocking because “anticipated demand failed to materialise”.…

The Asia-Pacific region is a key driver of the world’s wood coatings market, accounting for 44.7% of worldwide sales in 2022, according to US-based Allied Market Research (1). These in total are significant and expanding, with US and India-based market researcher Fact.MR…

Interest is growing in how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to further boost the booming global textiles market, which was valued at USD1.8 trillion in 2023, with revenues estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.4% from 2024 to 2030, according to India- and US-based market research and consulting company Grand View Research (1).…

As the largest non-alcoholic ready-to-drink (RTD) market in the Asia-Pacific region, according to Tokyo-based food and beverage consultancy GourmetPro (1), Japan has long been attractive to international non-alcohol brands, with the expansion of the market since 2020 intensifying attention.

Non-alcoholic beverages other than beer, such as cocktails and ‘chuhai’ (shochu and carbonated water flavoured with a kind of fruit juice – often categorised separately from cocktails in Japan), produced by Asahi, Sapporo, Kirin and Suntory; and umeshu (plum wine), such as ‘Yowanai The Choya’, began to appear on the market in 2010.…

With outdoor performance brands having to focus more on sustainability, because of regulatory and market requirements, brands have been looking to use more natural fibres as materials, alone and in combination with artificial inputs.

Designers have been assessing a wider range of natural fibres as a result, with alpaca and yak, for instance, joining the well-established merino as an outdoor wool fibre resource. …

Consumer appreciation of how artificial intelligence (AI) can improve their fashion shopping experiences is a key driver of the global apparel industry’s enthusiastic adoption of the technology, along with its ability to enhance design capabilities and boost operational efficiency.

Some brands have even harnessed AI’s ability to bring consumers into the fashion design process, integrating two of these AI deliverables.…