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Croatia’s paint and coatings industry is aiming to capitalise on the benefits of the country’s recent July 1 accession to the European Union (EU), and is hoping that an economic recovery can also help the industry return to growth over the next year.…

THE INDONESIAN Textile Association (API – or Asosiasi Pertekstilan Indonesia) has told WTiN that the Indonesian government is considering revamping its policy programme designed to boost investment in the sector. He added that the industry is also looking to improve its own competitiveness by focusing increasingly on higher value products.…

A leading industry body representing Turkish textile and apparel manufacturers has told WTiN that the country’s textile and garment sector has been unaffected by the anti-government protests and strike action that have hit the country over the past two weeks. The demonstrations entered their 15th day on Friday (June 14), and a two-day strike by thousands of trade union members took place in Turkey’s major cities last week.…

RECENT technical advances and headline projects show how companies with market leadership in high voltage direct current (HVDC) and Ultra HVDC (UHVDC) are pushing the envelope of what these technologies can do.

Since Sweden’s ASEA (now part of Swiss multinational ABB) installed the world’s first commercial HVDC link, under the Baltic Sea to the Swedish island of Gotland in 1954, it has become the technology of choice for transmitting current over very long distances on land or subsea.…

A PUSH by the G8 group of the world’s seven most industrialised nations plus Russia to improve extractive industry transparency and openness can help industrial minerals companies manage the payments they make in developing counties, as they will only have to follow one set of rules, according to Rio Tinto chief executive Sam Walsh.…

THE TURKISH textile and garment industry body told just-style said that there has been no disruption to its delivery of orders following the civil unrest that has been taking place in the country for more than a week. The anti-government protests, which began on May 31 in Istanbul, extended to a two-day strike in Turkey’s major cities on June 4 to 5 by thousands of trade union members.…

The concept of closed loop supply chains sounds a laudable, if possibly Utopian ideal: a virtuous circle of production from cradle to grave and back to cradle again. However, as Ulf Eriksson, product manager for textiles and shoes at the Sweden-government-owned Ecolabelling Sweden (or Svanen – Swedish for swan), pointed out: “A closed loop is a challenge for the garment industry because this is a fashion business.…

The challenges of working out whether textiles are sourced, produced or manufactured ethically are magnified by the plethora of eco-labelling schemes that apply to the industry. According to the Vancouver, Canada-based Ecolabel Index (www.ecolabelindex.com) there are 436 ecolabels worldwide, of which at least 24 cover textiles, clothes, other apparel and garments (while several others potentially overlap into the industry).…

AN AGREEMENT reached this week (Wednesday) between the European Union (EU) institutions on the reform of the Common Agriculture policy (CAP) will scrap the existing system of wine planting rights at the end of 2015, European Commission officials have told just-drinks.…

FOREIGN companies in China face a tough choice when becoming victims of fraud – do they let it go, knowing that they might be hit again later, or tangle with the fraudsters, privately, or using China’s often responsive law enforcement and court systems?…