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The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) paint market was steadily ticking along prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, with more steady demand after double-digit growth during the construction boom of the mid-2000s.

And the first few months of 2020 started well, with solid sales.…

Oil companies decarbonising their portfolios are getting out their cheque books for floating offshore wind projects.

Bottom-fixed offshore wind farms familiar in some places worldwide are generally limited to water no more than about 60 metres deep. Beyond that, it becomes economically unfeasible to connect the increasingly large turbine assemblies to the seafloor by either monopile or jacket foundations.…

While the antibacterial properties of textiles have been a trend in the fashion sector for some time, particularly for athleisure clothing integrating odour-limiting properties, Covid-19 has prompted many textile and fashion companies to conduct research and development into fabrics and clothing killing or harming viruses. …

There is no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic has fuelled the black-market trade in illicit and smuggled licit tobacco products. The disease has depressed income and forced lower income smokers to look for cheap smokes, which has included counterfeits or smuggled goods.…

Mozambique’s tobacco leaf and processing sector is facing tough times. Cyclones such as this January’s Eloise, and Idai in 2019 have wreaked significant damage on tobacco plantations. Covid-19 has caused processing disruption and harmed legitimate distribution, encouraging an increase in black market cigarette sales.…

Malawi’s higher education may have suffered through Covid-19, but the pandemic has encouraged efforts to build online and distance learning (ODL) operating through special satellite centres run by universities and colleges.

Out of Malawi’s 19 tertiary institutions, five have made serious progress in such services, with Mzuzu University, in northern Malawi, leading the way, pioneering ODL in 2006, when the institution was just eight years old.…

The world’s textile sector is focusing on China’s National People’s Congress, which congregated in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People last Friday (March 5) to start a ‘Two Sessions’ event to review and ratify the draft outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025).…

CUSTOMS forces can benefit from new sensor kit, enabling them to scan containers to ensure contents are as declared on docket – but to use these techniques to fight trade-based money laundering, they need to be integrated with accurate financial intelligence.…

The Tunisian clothing industry association will this week launch a major review of the sector’s market positioning as it seeks to help manufacturers survive the ongoing political turmoil that is wracking the country.

Nafaa Ennaifer, vice president of the Fédération Tunisienne du Textile et de l’Habillement (FTTH), told just-style his organisation would on Friday (March 12) launch a new market study in partnership with the Global Textiles and Clothing Programme (GTEX) and its Middle East and North Africa arm MENATEX.…

The world’s clothing and textile sector is keeping a close eye on China’s National People’s Congress, which congregated in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People last Friday (March 5) in a ‘Two Sessions’ event to review and ratify the draft outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025).…