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CUSTOMS forces can benefit from new sensor kit, enabling them to scan containers to ensure contents are as declared on docket – but to use these techniques to fight trade-based money laundering, they need to be integrated with accurate financial intelligence.…

Nearly a year after the Covid-19 pandemic adversely impacted the Turkish garment sector, the country’s clothing manufacturers are once again complaining of ill-treatment by major brands amid subdued market demand.

“The year has not started well. We are again facing some unfair treatment by some brands,” Hadi Karasu, president of the Turkish Clothing Manufacturers’ Association (TGSD, Türkiye Giyim Sanayicileri Derneği) told just-style.…

Environmental regulation is becoming increasingly tight for textile companies and this of special concern for the higher-tech side of the industry where new fibres, chemicals and processes are delivering a cutting edge. This is especially the case for innovative segments such as performance and outdoor materials.…

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NEW technology can deliver effective maintenance strategies to clothing and textile manufacturers, helping them go beyond reactive and proactive maintenance, moving into the more sophisticated world of prediction. The goal is to deliver an optimum maintenance strategy that enables manufacturers to get the most value out of their plant and equipment by spending the least amount of time, resources and money to deliver effective performance.…

The Lahore-based Sapphire Group has been blazing a good practice example to Pakistan’s fabric manufacturing sector by focusing on innovation when many local competitors have failed to update their production practice and technology.

With an annual turnover of USD800 million and an asset base exceeding USD500 million, the Sapphire Group has been optimising its productivity though careful attention process timing targets.…

The US new administration of President Joe Biden has a real opportunity to help forge peace in Syria, and if it succeeds, it could reap a series of important foreign policy goals.

This Levant country needs calm and reconstruction. For that to happen, the Biden team needs to recognise that the Baathist regime of President Bashar Hafez al-Assad has won this conflict, and still has rights in areas controlled by Kurds.…

The US new administration of President Joe Biden has a real opportunity to help forge peace in Syria, and if it succeeds, it could reap a series of important foreign policy goals.

This Levant country needs calm and reconstruction. For that to happen, the Biden team needs to recognise that the Baathist regime of President Bashar Hafez al-Assad has won this conflict, and still has rights in areas controlled by Kurds.…

The director general of the European Textile and Apparel Confederation,

Euratex, has warned that the military takeover in Myanmar could halt what has been a boom in clothing export sales to Europe, which grew 40% in 2020, year-on-year.

Dirk Vantyghem told just-style this has been achieved through a major increase in Chinese investment into the country’s clothing industry – its upstream textile segment remains small.…

The Turkish digital printing sector was hard hit in 2020 by the Covid-19 pandemic, but as demand for garments and textiles has rebounded, so has demand for new printers. Turkey is set to become one of the world’s top three digital printers in terms of capacity and machinery, with the trend for smaller print runs and retailers seeking orders made closer to home being major growth drivers.…

IMPORTANT building blocks of anti-fraud regulatory and law enforcement policies and programmes for the European Union (EU) have been introduced in the past two months, as the EU continues to grapple with endemically high levels of financial crime and corruption.…