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Taiwan’s major packaging and packaging machine industries – with more than 1,000 factories – have been prospering in through proactive service delivery. They have helped the country’s local and overseas packaging value chain in handling and using their goods and services, including eco-plastics.…

The Canadian automobile industry has welcomed the planned imposition of Canada’s planned 100% tariffs on Chinese BEV imports, saying it will give the sector breathing space to set up a comprehensive BEV supply chain. This follows the Canadian and Ontario governments sinking Canadian dollars CAD52.5 billion (USD39 billion) into creating a mining-to-assembly BEV industry in Canada.…

The Indian clothing and textile industry is gearing up to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) powered technologies and other high-tech innovative manufacturing processes to remain competitive, a major industry gathering in Delhi saw last week.

Gartex Texprocess India, a textile industry exhibition with 170 exhibitors and about 15,000 visitors, held from August 1 to 3, also highlighted innovations in sustainable fabrics, eco-friendly trims and high-performance accessories.…

The Japanese yen’s slide of more than 10% against the dollar in the past 12 months to reach a 38-year low may be propping up profits for Japan’s export-driven automakers but the resulting rising production input import costs are causing pain for Japanese auto parts suppliers businesses.…

The Colombian digital textile printing sector is innovating to overcome weak sales trends in fabric and clothing sales, with challenges to exports and production. Local companies are as a result pushing technological adoption to improve response rates and production times, especially regarding digital printing techniques.…

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”.…

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.…

Paint sales in South Africa remain muted after a post-pandemic boom, with low economic growth, high inflation and political uncertainty in the lead up to this May’s competitive national elections impacting consumer demand, although there is hope for a post-poll boost in purchases.…

Smart textile suppliers need to take account of electronics safety rules as well as regulatory controls and standards for regular fabric-based products can be a significant challenge, especially in Asia, where legal regimes may be less familiar to western companies.

But the importance of understanding these rules is clear given the extensive sourcing that continues in Asia, especially should smart textile product makers wish to sell their products in populous and often wealthy Asian markets.…

Business schools worldwide are increasingly using diversity to help teach environmental, social, and (corporate) governance (ESG), as these sustainability issues grow in importance commercially and for regulatory compliance.

These strategies are underpinned by the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and its associated 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), of which SDG 4 aims to ensure that by 2030, “all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development (…) and appreciation of cultural diversity” (https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda…