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guarantee system and brand recognition, but they also really took account of the technologies in food safety and meat processing,” he said, noting some valuations of the company’s food safety monitoring systems as exceeding USD2 billion.

Mr Gilmore said Mr Wan raised many of the issues that must be resolved if China is to make progress in instituting a food safety regime compatible with its wider goal of fulfilling the ‘China Dream’, a political motif for goals being pursued by the new administration in China that took power in March.…

DESPITE the billions of dollars spent on modernising several major Indian airports, government officials admit they have failed to become strong international hubs, limiting their potential.

According to a May 2012 report, ‘Developing aviation hubs in India’, published by the Indian ministry of civil aviation, in the year ending March 2011 only 12% of passengers in Mumbai and 9% in Delhi used these airports for transit, and most are transferring to domestic destinations.…

‘LA TORRE PUIG,’ the 22-storey Puig Tower now being fitted out in the Plaza de Europa, of the Catalan capital, Barcelona, for Puig SL, the family owned fragrances and fashion firm, will be yet another landmark building for one of Europe’s most beautiful cities.…

India’s new textiles minister Kavuru Sambasiva Rao told an international textile conference in New Delhi on Friday he wants the textile sector to be relieved from rigid labour laws that prevent manufacturers working 24 hours-a-day. Rao, who was appointed last month (June), said that he is pushing for the Indian cabinet to approve new legislation in the southern state of Karnataka that would give the industry more flexibility in laying-off workers and to allow women to work night shifts in factories.…

Chinese government plans to extend license plate purchase restrictions from major to smaller cities may have fallen at the first hurdle amid public anger and indignation amongst Chinese automakers, who fear the measures may significantly impact their sales.

Speaking at an industry forum in Beijing earlier in July (July 10), Shi Jianhua, deputy secretary general of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), said the plans to extend restrictions to Chengdu, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Shijiazhuang, Tianjin and Wuhan, could result in his members losing 400,000 units of sales each year.…

TROUBLED Turkey’s textile sector is to get a shot in the arm with the launch of a major Chinese-owned yarn manufacturing plant in Balıkesir, west Turkey, south of Istanbul. Shanghai-based Texhong plans to invest about USD180 million in the factory complex, which will supply more than 16,000 tonnes of core-spun cotton yarn and blended yarn to the European Union (EU) market annually, Qiu Ming, general manager at Texhong Turkey told WTiN.com.…

China must pay greater attention to safety procedures governing the use of ammonia in cold chain storage facilities following a chemical leak and deadly fire at a slaughterhouse in the country’s northeastern Jilin province, industry officials said Tuesday. 

The fire, which as of this morning had left 120 workers at the Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry plant dead and a further 60 recovering in hospital, was triggered by explosions related to a chemical ammonia leak, according to state media. …

The concept of closed loop supply chains sounds a laudable, if possibly Utopian ideal: a virtuous circle of production from cradle to grave and back to cradle again. However, as Ulf Eriksson, product manager for textiles and shoes at the Sweden-government-owned Ecolabelling Sweden (or Svanen – Swedish for swan), pointed out: “A closed loop is a challenge for the garment industry because this is a fashion business.…

According to the non-governmental organisation (NGO) China Water Risk, it can require 40,000 litres of water to grow 1 kilogramme (kg) of cotton and 600 litres of wastewater can be produced to make just 1kg of textiles. And the average Chinese apparel factory discards 27.2 tonnes of usable, pre-consumer excess textiles every week, which includes new thread, fabric, buttons and trimmings.…

INVESTORS have shown faith in the long term prospects of the Bangladesh clothing and textile sector, with four garment factories costing nearly USD50 million to build starting operations in Bangladesh’s Comilla Export Processing Zone this year (EPZ), its general manager MD Abdus Sobhan told just-style.…