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The United States, European Union (EU), Germany and the UK have reacted swiftly against Russian interests following its government’s recognition of independence of two breakaway republics in eastern Ukraine. The sanctions follow the announcement yesterday (Monday Feb 21) by President Vladimir Putin regarding the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s republics, into which he has openly sent Russian troops, as ‘peacekeepers’.…

EUROPE’S dairy production and trade must not suffer from the implementation of the European Union (EU)’s farm to fork (F2F) plans (1), announced May 2020 and at the heart of the European Green Deal to “make food systems fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly,” dairy experts have told Dairy Industries International (DII).…

The Tunisian clothing industry says that a collective wage agreement to 2023 will help Tunisian workers deal with rising costs, (inflation was 6.6% in December), while keeping the sector competitive in international markets. The deal was struck in November by the Tunisian Textile and Clothing Federation (FTTH), (as part of the Tunisian Union of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts – UTICA) and the General Federation of Textiles, Clothes, Leather and Shoes workers (FGTHCC), which is part of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT).…

Major garment labels, technology innovators, environmental research companies and textile manufacturers are working hard worldwide to deliver sustainable solutions for cotton textile pre-treatment. Reducing levels of chemicals in wastewater, significantly decreasing the total amount of water used in processing in the first place and cutting energy use by as much as 75% are some of the benefits these new techniques are delivering to finishers.…

At a time when footwear companies are moving to tap high-quality and high-added value segments and niche markets, such as vegan shoes, attention is now turning to the sales potential being offered for sales of footwear that is halal-certified in wealthy non-Muslim majority markets such as Europe and north America.…

South Korea’s paint and coatings market is readying itself for a sustained rebound after 2021 saw it recover from declining sales in 2020 prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic. UK-based market researcher Euromonitor International’s Paints and Varnishes in South Korea report published in December 2021 showed that the country’s paints and varnishes production value declined by 0.9% year on year in 2020, to USD6.8 billion, but Euromonitor predicts the industry’s turnover will have fully recovered in 2021 to 2019 levels or beyond. …

Continuing supply chain problems, worsened by Covid-19, and price hikes for raw materials have depressed the outlook for sales faced by the German paint business in 2021. Germany’s Verband der deutschen Lack- und Druckfarbenindustrie (VdL), the industry association for coatings, paints and ink production, predicts that overall sales will have fallen 4% in 2021 compared to 2020, partly because because 2020’s DIY boom, fuelled by pandemic lockdown orders, has run out of steam.…

Bulgaria’s new government has promised to fight corruption and challenge the country’s reputation as the European Union’s (EU) worst blackspot for graft. The new Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov defeated former PM Boyko Borissov last November amidst demonstrations against government corruption.…

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.…