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The European garment sector has been growing uneasy about how the six-day stranding of the 400-metre-long cargo ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal will affect its supply chain. It has also been assessing the lessons for future contingency plans regarding such cargo transport pinch-points.…

Indonesia’s National Textile Centre (BBT – Balai Besar Tekstil) in Bandung, West Java, this year (2021) established a melt spinning laboratory helping the country’s nonwovens industry develop products with special functionalities, including medical supplies and personal protective equipment such as masks and hazmat suits.   …

Two cargo vessels in Norway are being built to pioneer the use of hydrogen fuel cells to power engines as the international shipping industry starts to take measures to reduce its carbon footprint.

A consortium in southwest Norway is tapping a combination of European Union (EU) and government funds to design and build two vessels in what has been given the concept name of the Topeka project.…

Covid-19 has reshaped commercial crime, and one lucrative offence taking a real turn for the worse is tobacco smuggling and counterfeiting. Keith Nuthall reports.

The Covid-19 pandemic has depressed incomes worldwide and forced lower income smokers to look for cheap smokes, which has included counterfeits or smuggled goods.…

The IFRS Foundation trustees have moved forward with their plan to develop global sustainability reporting standards, forming a working group to undertake technical work. It has been charged with focusing on enterprise value issues regarding sustainability assessments. It will also plan a potential international sustainability reporting standards board under IFRS Foundation governance.…

The coatings sector is increasingly paying attention to the needs of the textile industry, with its products being used in innovative ways to adapt the surfaces of fabrics to new technical requirements and changes in consumer preferences.

It is an innovative field and information on recent research and development was highlighted last month at a World Congress on Textile Coating (WCTC), held virtually between February 11-12 and 18-19 with dozens of presenters.…

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.…