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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”.…

THE EVER-CHANGING sourcing equation is a challenge to the global garment and textile industry supply chain. There is talk of moving production back home to western countries – bringing it closer to market- but its viability is being questioned. Meanwhile in Asia, where the majority of clothes are currently produced worldwide, the sourcing landscape is changing, experts say.…

THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) has made a lot of noise about its anti-bribery convention. But some countries are failing to comply, and where others do – otherwise honest companies can lose trade. David Hayhurst and Keith Nuthall report.…

THE CZECH group Agrofert Holding has told just-food it expects to get a green light from the European Commission for its planned takeover of German bakery group Lieken. “Considering the fact that Agrofert does not own any bakeries in Germany, we don’t expect complications,” said Agrofert Holding’s spokesman Karel Hanzelka.…

TO listen to opposing sides in a polarised debate, February 14, 2013, could go down in European business history as a St Valentine’s Day Massacre of Europe’s capital markets or as the start of a beautiful love affair with regulation that could help to prevent speculative trading turning boom to bust.…

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software has also undergone a profound change over recent years, dominated by three catchwords: integration, cloud computing and social design.

Integration is perhaps the most significant, short-term trend in both PLM and ERP development for the clothing and textile sector, and others.…

IRELAND has the most higher education graduates per head of population in all 27 countries of the European Union (EU), a report from EU statistical agency Eurostat has revealed.

Looking at the proportion of people aged 30-34 who had completed tertiary education, Eurostat said in 2012, 51.1% of Ireland residents had degrees.…

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has rejected a claim by the Swiss government that Germany had breached a 1999 European Union-Switzerland air transport agreement by restricting night and early morning flights to and from Zurich airport. Berlin insists on altitude minimums over German territory.…

A COMPLEX international supply web supporting an illicit business of tobacco counterfeiters, losing European Union (EU) governments Euro EUR50 million in duties, has been unveiled in a German court. Details were revealed in a case at the Berlin-Moabit criminal court convicting a German-Russian co-national to nine years jail.…

CHINA’S demonstrable skills in clothing and textile manufacture has yet to yield dividends in the technical textiles field, with the country still relying heavily on imports, especially for high-end products such as carbon fibre, high temperature fibre and medical textiles.

In 2011, China spent USD3.4 billion importing  technical textiles, including woven and unwoven lines, mainly from the US and Japan – up 22.7% from USD2.77 billion during 2010, according to Beijing-based China Nonwovens and Industrial Textiles Associations (CNITA).…