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The cutting edge IT field of quantum computing is developing across Africa, with South Africa considered the hub, in part through an IBM centre in Johannesburg that enables academics throughout the continent to freely access its quantum computer network, based in the USA, through the cloud.…

QUANTUM computing is coming to fruition after decades of research and these new powerful systems will offer paint and coating manufacturers the opportunity to develop new chemicals and products unimaginable using classical computers.

These new computers excel in complex calculations needed to model molecules, especially those from nature, whose assessment are often at the core of designing new chemical solutions delivering new functionality and colour to paints and coatings.…

GRAPHENE, a form of carbon, formed into a single layer of atoms arranged in two-dimensional honeycomb lattice, has been hailed as a super-material – highly conductive (heat and power), strong, stable, and absorbent of light and liquid. It is the latter quality that has caught the eye of the petroleum sector, with graphene being used to help clean up oils spills.…

A LEGAL challenge has been made at the European Court or Justice (ECJ) to a new European Union (EU) regulation that orders sellers of paints and coatings containing titanium dioxide (TO2) – an important whitener –  to include health warning messages on packages.…

Innovation is a key to success in the knitwear sector, but when a manufacturing hub combines centuries-old traditions of knitted product production with new technology and ideas, that is a winning combination. This is the strength of Japan’s Wakayama knitwear manufacturing centre, located south of Osaka, on the western coast of the Kii Peninsula.…

PAKISTAN’S clothing and textile sector has called on the country’s government to offer vigorous help to help the industry emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, which it says has inflicted punishing harm on manufacturers. The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) and the Pakistan Readymade Garments Exporters & Manufacturers Association (PRGMEA) are united in pressing for government action.…

Scientists in Japan have succeeded in developing an artificial spider silk that could have major implications for the apparel industry. The research team at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS), developed the spider silk from photosynthetic bacteria, paving the way for a new era of photosynthetic bio-factories delivering stable output.…

HONG Kong textile industry observers are confident that an announcement by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that imported goods produced in Hong Kong must from September 25 be marked as ‘made-in-China’ will not significantly harm clothing traders and manufacturers operating from the territory.…

UK consumer association, Which?, has said the government should make it mandatory for banks and building societies to reimburse customers that fall victim to push payment fraud, where customers are tricked into voluntarily transferring money to fraudsters, after its research revealed failings with a voluntary scheme.…

Few countries could claim to have weathered Covid-19 well but Singapore, micro-managed and highly-educated, is high on the shortlist. Even so, Covid-19 has had a detrimental effect on the southeast Asian city state’s paints and coatings sector and its impacts continue to linger.…