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Tunisia’s textile and garment manufacturers hope that the signing of a new public/private partnership pact with the government will enable industry to meet its full potential.

Tunisian head of government (Prime Minister) Youssef Chahed signed on February 21 an agreement with UTICA (Tunisian Union of Industry, Business and Artisans) and FTTH (Tunisian Textile and Garment Federation) to create a public/private partnership to push through a five-year recovery and development plan.…

SOUTH African award-winning knitwear entrepreneur Laduma Ngxokolo has a personal dynamism that underpins the 32-year-old’s dominance in his niche market of integrating Xhosa art and cultural traditions with knitted garments.

Hailing from Port Elizabeth, a major South African city in the Eastern Cape, he embraced his cultural heritage to found knitwear fashion house MaXhosa Africa by Laduma in 2012.…

THE REDUCTION of transport costs for the mineral sector through high-capacity marine cargo handling solutions was a key topic of the annual Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention held in Toronto, this month (March 3-6). The CSL Group Inc (CSL), a privately-owned shipping company based in Montréal, Québec, and the world’s largest owner and operator of self-unloading vessels, explained how its systems can improve the logistics chain and better integrate cargo loading with mining operations.…

Egypt is moving ahead with its Vision 2025 strategy to quadruple garment and textile exports, employ a further 1 million people, and attract USD17.5 billion in investment, but the double-digit growth needed to achieve the goals have yet to be reached.…

India’s fast-growing potato chips market has huge potential for future growth, driven especially by rising demand in the rural markets, where two thirds of India’s 1.3 billion people still live.

For example, in the fast moving consumer goods segment, India’s rural market accounts for 40% of the national sales and is growing at about 10% annually, which is faster than the urban markets, said a ‘Indian Rural Market’ report issued by Confederation of Indian Industries in March 2017.…

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THE JAPANESE nuclear sector may have the backing of its government, but a combination of technical challenges and public unpopularity is impeding plans to restore the country’s nuclear capacity towards its generation before the Fukushima disaster in 2011.

During a news conference on January 1, Hiroaki Nakanishi, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, was pessimistic about the industry’s future.…

Australia is witnessing strong solar energy growth, with unprecedented increases in power generation being complemented by rapid advances in storage that are tempering concerns that the country could be approaching a peak-solar output crunch.

The continent now has more than 10.1GW of solar installed, combining large- or utility-scale (above 100kW) plants, medium- or commercial-scale ones (10-100kW) and small-scale household rooftop stations (below 10kW).…

While the confectionery industry is traditionally associated with high sugar levels and unhealthy indulgence, market research indicates that efforts to also appeal to consumers with a growing interest in health and wellness trends are paying off. According to UK-based market researcher GlobalData, in 2016 alone USD3.7 billion worth of confectionery with functional or fortified attributes was sold globally.…

Women in the Gulf region need to put themselves forward and show the skills they can contribute to organisations if they want to be considered for more senior positions, participants of a recent event hosted by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) have said.…