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KNITTING production is likely to move away from its long-time Chinese production base and move closer to “home”, Lutz Walter, secretary general of the European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing (ETP) – the largest European textiles research and innovations network – told Knitting International at the 12-13 October ‘European Textiles: Going Digital – Going High-Tech’ conference in Brussels.…

Earlier this year Italian pasta giant Barilla presented its latest technological innovation: a next generation 3D printer that swaps ink for pasta dough and is able to make unique pasta shapes in just minutes.

Barilla is among the world’s first food producers to leverage the latest digital technologies and apply them to food production.…

SINGAPORE has signed deals allowing for the automatic exchange of financial account information with two key trade partners – Britain and Australia. The agreements were struck by the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) with the UK’s Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).…

Japan’s automobile manufacturers are increasingly looking to set up plants in – or, at least, very close to – their target markets, and paint companies with expertise in the auto coatings sector are following their lead.

“In 2015, the overall Japanese paints and varnishes market recorded 0.3 per cent growth, with producers struggling to remain competitive because production in Japan is pricier due to environmental requirements and higher labour costs,” said Andrius Balsys, a research analyst who monitors the paints sector for London-based market researcher, Euromonitor International.…

THAILAND’S strong upstream and mid-stream textile sectors can gain significantly by investing in Vietnam, setting up plants in the country ahead of the key Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal coming into force, Thailand textile industry experts have said. 

Thailand’s “textile bleaching, dyeing, printing and finishing sectors can benefit by investing in Vietnam,” a spokesperson from industry organisation the Thailand Textile Institute’s textile policy research and information service department said.…

As guns continue to go silent in Somalia’s waning civil conflicts, exponential growth has been witnessed in the country’s higher education sector, although there are mixed reviews about the quality of education offered by the country’s new independent universities.

Before the 1988 civil war and subsequent collapse of the central government in 1991, Somalia had only one state-owned university, the Somali National University.…

THE EUROPEAN chemical industry association Cefic has criticised the European Commission’s criteria for defining endocrine disrupting (hormone affecting) chemicals, saying resulting guidance could over-regulate harmless chemicals. “For the industry to ensure that people and the environment are properly protected, it is essential that the criteria enable the identification of harmful substances.…

Experts at a nuclear energy conference held by The Associated Chambers of Commerce of India (ASSOCHAM) have predicted that the country’s nuclear expansion will receive momentum given the central government is about to ratify the Paris climate change agreement.

The event, ‘Nuclear Power in India – Indigenisation and Viability’, was heard that the global warming deal will be ratified on October 2, pushing India to speed up plans to develop non-carbon power sources.…

Concerns about the US-European Union (EU) Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP) have abated, particularly regarding oversight and data-sharing issues. But the issue remains controversial, with a potential EU version of the system still being debated within the EU executive, the European Commission, whether to be standalone or complementary to the USA-promoted TFTP.…

THE MEAT and livestock sector will see many advantages from robotics in future, a European Commission official said in a September 27 debate in Brussels on the digital future of farming.

The event was organised by the European agricultural machinery industry association CEMA.…