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THE COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption to Peru’s important camelid fibre sectors. Its large alpaca fibre and fabric industry has suffered, but there is maybe more concern about the impact on the smaller and more vulnerable vicuña industry.

Peru is the leading producer worldwide of vicuña.…

CANADIAN auto dealers, whose sales of high-tech vehicles maybe hampered by safety concerns linked to hacking and computer viruses, are being assisted by a new university cyber-protection unit allied to parts-makers.

The SHIELD Automotive Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence is based at the University of Windsor, just over the Detroit River, and will work with Canada’s Automotive Parts Manufacturing Association (APMA), with whom it has signed a memorandum of understanding.…

A PUBLIC inquiry in British Columbia, Canada, has increased concerns about how auto dealers maybe exploited by criminal networks to launder dirty money. Purchasers can be prepared to pay high prices for vehicles in cash, with dealers struggling to identify the source of these funds.…

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.…

THE MYANMAR clothing industry is struggling to operate effectively as political unrest continues following the seizure of power by the country’s military on February 1.

Garment manufacturers, most of whom have been located in the country’s commercial capital Yangon, had been a major employer and a significant source of foreign currency for Myanmar.…

A plan to establish an apparel park in Lahore – the capital city of Pakistan’s Punjab province, and a major clothing and textile manufacturing hub – appears to have been stalled following a dispute between the provincial government and the prospective Chinese investor Challenge Apparel Ltd.…

Demand for knitting machines in China has been recovering remarkably fast from the Covid-19 crisis, with Chinese textile factory owners growing bolder in investment decisions, and exports to south Asia growing too.

Chinese knitting machine-makers Suzhou ReHow Machinery Manufacturing and Fujian Taifan Industrial, which supply mainly T-shirt fabrics single jersey circular knitting machines, saw their sales dip in 2020 but not to a dramatically low level.…

THE MYANMAR clothing industry is struggling to operate effectively as political unrest continues following the seizure of power by the country’s military on February 1.

Garment manufacturers, most of whom have been located in the country’s commercial capital Yangon, had been a major employer and a significant source of foreign currency for Myanmar.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) food and drink sector is keeping a close eye on discussions to overhaul EU food regulations through a broad decarbonisation and health plan which will impact food production, processing, packaging, and marketing. The EUs revised ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy, released last May (2020) aims to reduce fossil fuel use and food waste, promoting healthier diets and organic farming.…

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.…