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REGULATORS AND CAN INDUSTRY WORK TO ETHICALLY MANAGE SHRINKFLATION
High inflation forces consumers and businesses to change their behaviours – and not always in positive ways: fillers for example, have sometimes been reducing the amount of food in cans, while maintaining the size of the packaging, and their prices. Unsurprisingly, this ‘shrinkflation’ has upset consumers and their representatives, highlighting a potential lack of transparency.…
INDIA’S GROWING POPULATION AND ECONOMY MAJOR PRIZE FOR CONFECTIONERY INDUSTRY
The Indian confectionery industry, which according to London-based market researcher Euromonitor International, is expecting sales of Indian Rupees INR335.92 billion (USD4.05 billion) in 2023, up 13.4% year-on-year, excelling with consolidation, automation and advanced packaging.
Growth is seen in almost every confectionery and sweet bakery segment, as per Euromonitor data.…
REGULATORS AND CAN INDUSTRY WORK TO ETHICALLY MANAGE SHRINKFLATION
High inflation forces consumers and businesses to change their behaviours – and not always in positive ways: fillers for example, have sometimes been reducing the amount of food in cans, while maintaining the size of the packaging, and their prices. Unsurprisingly, this ‘shrinkflation’ has upset consumers and their representatives, highlighting a potential lack of transparency.…
SAUDI ARABIA’S UNIVERSITIES SETTING THE WHEELS IN MOTION FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Saudi Arabia’s universities are ramping up their efforts to boost their sustainability working within an unforgiving status quo of fossil fuel reliance, high energy and water consumption plus rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Public and private universities have in recent years started addressing these challenges by fostering sustainability practices on their campuses and influencing Saudi society to become environmentally conscious. …
EGYPTIAN COTTON EXPORTS TO CHINA SURGE AS CHINESE SPINNERS AVOID BLACKLISTED XINJIANG FIBRES
Chinese textile and clothing manufacturers are increasingly relying on Egyptian cotton, over the past two seasons becoming Egypt’s second largest buyer of cotton, driven by the US ban on Xinjiang cotton, competitive pricing, and strong demand for luxury fibres.
“China has always been a player in Egyptian cotton, but they were never on top of the list.…
STUDENTS CAUGHT UP IN TUNISIAN BORDER BLACK AFRICAN EXPULSIONS SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP
Humanitarians have claimed that sub-Saharan university students were part of mass border expulsions by Tunisian security forces in July as universities within the north African country note reduced registrations by black African students.
Tunisian humanitarian association Enfants de la Lune’s https://www.facebook.com/XPtunisie…
PORTUGAL DEVELOPS INNOVATIVE INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF EUCALYPTUS AND CORK
Portugal is developing innovative textile and garment applications of eucalyptus and cork, natural resources that abound in the country, while looking to ensure these new fibres comply with new sustainability and circularity requirements in Europe.
António Braz Costa, general director at the Portuguese Technological Centre for Textile and Clothing (Centro Tecnológico Têxtil e Vestuário – CITEVE) and the affiliated Centre for Nanotechnology and Smart Materials (Centro de Nanotecnologia e Materiais Técnicos, Funcionais e Inteligentes – CeNTI) told Twist International, that the Portuguese sector is now meeting a 10-year-old goal of boosting its production of textile fibres from wood sources.…
PERU UNIVERSITY HONOURED BY UN FOR ITS INNOVATIVE SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAMME
A Peru university has been honoured by the UN for a groundbreaking sustainability programme, that imparts practical environmental skills to students, which they then practice in the community. Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola (USIL), Peru, based in the capital Lima, was a winner of the Next Generation Learning and Skills section of the International Green Gown Awards 2023, supported by the UN’s Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI).…
US DECARBONISATION POLICIES BOOSTS DEMAND FOR AMERICAN BIOBASED OILS AND FATS
An increasing push for decarbonisation in North America is opening more opportunities for the production and sale of soybean oil, canola oil and other bio-based fats and oils.
Rising demand from the domestic energy sector is increasingly leading the US oilseeds, oils and fats industry to re-valuate the value of their products as feedstock for renewable fuels and biodiesel.…
UK AUSTRALIA FREE TRADE DEAL OFFERS WOOL TRADERS CHANCE TO EXPAND YARN CHOICES FOR TEXTILE MANUFACTURERS
The wool and textile sectors of Australia and the UK will be closely assessing the impact of the UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which came into force on May 31 (1). The agreement, one of the first major trade deals stuck by the UK following its Brexit from the European Union (EU) in 2020, includes a significant reduction and removal of tariffs in trade between the two.…