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Gorpcore’ fashion, wearing outdoor functional clothing as fashionable streetwear, is rising in popularity, so much that much specialist apparel specifically designed for mountain environments will “never see a mountain,” a performance clothing designer has told WTiN.

Their expensive materials and complex designs have “attracted fashion and streetwear to outdoor clothing,” Richard Dannah, an outdoor performance designer with more than 20 years’ experience in the field, told WTiN.…

The Canadian automotive import market is becoming an increasingly important to USA-based assemblers, with USD17.2 billion’s worth of American-made cars, SUVs and light trucks sold in Canada in 2022, according to federal government figures issued from Ottawa. That is up from USD14.2 billion in 2021 and higher than pre-Covid-19 sales – USD14.6 billion in 2018 and USD13.8 billion in 2019.…

The Indonesian government is looking to actively support the country’s textile and clothing industry as it faces a downturn in exports, depressed by soft economies in overseas markets facing high inflation and interest rates.

Trade has indeed fallen, said the Indonesia industry ministry, which told Just Style of a decline in both exports and imports in the first half of this year (2023), with clothing and textile exports dropping by 18.7% and imports by 19.8%.…

Türkiye’s digital textile printing sector had started to rebound post-Covid-19, but since 2022, orders have slowed due to weakening economies in the country’s key European markets, while production costs have been impacted by surging inflation and currency devaluation. While this has hampered order books, reducing demand for all kinds of finishing, print houses have been adapting by seeking medium to high-end orders for smaller print runs, which favour digital printing’s flexibility – promoting investment.…

The dairy industry if Baltic State Estonia may be small, but it has seen continuous growth, with 2022 marking the 22nd consecutive year of increased milk production in a country blessed with abundant natural grassland.

“Estonia is among the best in Europe in terms of cow milk production,” Aire Pentjärv, head of the dairy animals performance testing department, of Estonian Livestock Performance Recording Ltd (EPJ – Eesti Põllumajandusloomade Jõudluskontrolli AS), told Dairy Industries International.…

UN member states have been urged to create solid national policy and spending commitments to achieve the body’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by 2030, including the key SDG4 on education. https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal4 Its aim is inclusive and equitable quality education, delivering lifelong learning opportunities for all.…

The China National Garment Association (CNGA) in a new briefing (1) on China’s clothing industry economic operations for H1 2023 warned that China’s clothing industry is under serious pressure. Insufficient post-Covid demand recovery in international markets due to inflation and central banks’ tight monetary policies have been exacerbated by overseas customers transferring orders to other countries.…

A groundbreaking collaboration between Tunisia and China has yielded plans to develop a pioneering laboratory, solely dedicated to the realm of plasma physics, a key element of nuclear fusion research. The lab would be established in Tunisia’s prestigious National Engineering School of Tunis, within the University of Tunis – El Manar, in central Tunis, Tunisia’s capital.…

China’s key government economic body has released restrictions on the use of iron oxide pigments and titanium dioxide, the most important white pigment used in the coatings industry. In July (2023), China’s National Development and Reform Commission and related departments issued an updated Notice on Issuing the Energy Efficiency Benchmark Levels and Baseline Levels in Key Industrial Fields, with 11 additional controls, including 11 key areas including titanium dioxide (TiO2).…

Bangladesh is exploring offshore wind power as a key solution for a country seeking energy diversification, but whose dense population restricts land availability for renewable power. In July (2023), a USD1.3 billion investment offer in Bangladesh’s wind power energy from Denmark-based Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), a leading green infrastructure fund manager, working with offshore wind developer Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) has boosted this south Asian country’s renewable energy ambitions (1).…