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In a highly technical textile sector segment such as the manufacture of compressed garments, the use of detailed standards to guide production is not just useful in guaranteeing quality output, it can help manufacturers and brands’ marketing. Where products are associated with international, regional, national and private standards, this builds confidence in consumers, promoting sales.…

AMERICAN automobile designers and marketers need to take a serious account of China’s nationalistic ‘guochao’ trend to buttress sales and protect their market share against strengthening all-Chinese marques, industry experts are warning.

Guochao, which literately translates as ‘national tide’, has seen Chinese companies conquering domestic market shares from foreign rivals in sectors from a wide range of sectors that have long been dominated by international brands, from cosmetics and fashion, yes, to cars.…

The European Commission has fined German carmakers BMW and Volkswagen (makers of the Audi, Porsche and Volkswagen marques) EUR875,189,000 for operating a cartel restricting competition in emission-cleaning technology for diesel cars for over five years. Another German carmaker, Daimler, escaped a fine for revealing the cartel existed to the Commission, under 2006 leniency notice provisions (1) that spare the first cartel member that comes clean about its existence. …

THE COVID-19 pandemic’s boom in web usage has created opportunities for hackers and fraudsters to attack the unwary through electronic networks, however, on the plus side the scope for open-source intelligence (OSINT) inquiries online to reveal useful information about these criminals is growing.…

The Covid-19 pandemic that accelerated e-commerce by an estimated five years will also lead to an increase in on-shoring for the US textile industry through sustainable digital printing, especially attracting millennial and Gen-Z consumers, say industry insiders.

Tight profit margins in the textile-garment sector mean it makes “no sense” to rely on an overseas supply chain when runs as short as half a yard of fabric can be carried out with digital print technology, argued Mike Scrutton, director print technology and strategy at California-based Adobe, which provides innovative software for digital textile printers

Moreover, Kathryn Sanders, CEO of Western Sensibility, a digital textile printing company based in Montana, described changes such technology is making to the US textile industry as “very powerful” and “incredible”, adding some American manufacturers and designers are “banking on this being the future”.…

On July 3, 2021, the European Union’s (EU) groundbreaking, detailed and wide-ranging directive intended to reduce plastic litter came into force: the directive on single use plastics (SUP) (1) – as it affects a key competitor, the metal packaging sector has been keeping a close eye on the fallout.…

Even though life has been increasingly lived online during the Covid-19 pandemic, there is still a significant market for hardware surveillance devices, including those that are covert, with recording devices hidden in everyday objects, such as pens, watches, even water bottles.…

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Until now, the use of sensors within garments has been regarded as a specialist technical exercise, usually as a means of delivering medical information to doctors, nurses and other health-care professionals. However, production advances, especially the integration of sensors within yarns using nanotech and conductive fibre is opening up a wider range of more user-friendly functions that could bring sensor tech to the mass consumer market.…

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had many profound social and economic impacts, but maybe one of the most important for the clothing and textile sector has been how it encouraged the meshing of design and function in products.

With consumers staying at home, they have looked for apparel to provide comfort as much as formal elegance, of more importance when working in an office or attending public evening events.…

As Canada’s auto market emerges from its Covid-19-inspired slump, new vehicle sales are competing against increased demand for used vehicles, as inventories remain tight and prices rise across the board.

Canadian used vehicle prices have tracked upwards steadily in the past 10 years, according to data from JD Power (1), inching towards 110% of 1998 levels by early last year.…