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While moves in the knitwear sector are afoot to overtake ‘fast fashion’ with sustainable products and processes, the ultimate push to become certified organic is proving an unnecessary step too far for many producers.

There is widespread support in the industry to embrace sustainable business practices and boost eco-credentials for yarns and knitwear items.…

THE ONGOING economic integration of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) block is creating potential opportunities for Indonesia’s workforce, but thy may not have skills to take advantage without proactive vocational training programmes, economists have warned.

“Qualification mismatch is still a significant issue for young people in Indonesia today,” Emma Allen, Jakarta-based country economist for the Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB), told People Management.…

A smarter approach to asset integrity is proving to be the cost-effective answer to corrosion and erosion in ageing oil and gas assets. Indeed, the global oil and gas industry is maintaining a sharp focus on costs as operators grapple with ‘end or extend’ decisions over the commercial life of ageing assets in a lower-for-longer oil price environment.…

THE LEAGUE of Arab States’ 22 countries have imported more Brazilian textiles and clothing between January and July of 2017 than during the whole of 2016, according to the latest industry figures from the Brazilian-Arabic Chamber of Commerce (CCAB – Câmara de Comércio Árabe-Brasileira).…

Amid concerns about a growing shortage of workers in Russia’s textile industry, leading companies are looking to recruit staff from India, China and other emerging market nations.

According to latest data from the Russian ministry of industry and trade, the current vacancy rate across the country’s textile industry is 36%.…

ROYAL Jordanian Airlines and Kuwait Airlines have been given permission to allow air passengers on USA-bound flights to resume carrying personal electronic items, including laptops, onto their planes, after they ramped up security measures. The bans, lifted July 9, had been imposed in March over American concerns that Islamic State members and other extremists could hide bombs inside laptops. …

ТHE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and the United States (US) have launched ongoing negotiations on widening the scope of a 2011 EU-US Memorandum of Cooperation on civil aviation research and development, with the goal of achieving interoperability in EU and US air traffic management systems.…

THE FIRST phase of building the Istanbul Grand Airport (IGA), in Turkey, set to be the world’s largest such facility, is more than half complete, although a projected opening of early 2018 is not expected to be met.

There are some 20,000 people working on the project, forecast to rise to 30,000 as work progresses and developments around the airport get underway, such as an associated Airport City, including shopping malls, hotels and entertainment facilities, according to Istanbul Grand Airport (IGA), the airport’s operator.…

Kenya is likely to become the second country in east Africa after Rwanda to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as drones, for commercial purposes, according to Capt. Gilbert Kibe, director general of the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA).

Speaking during a ‘Drones East Africa Conference’ held in Nairobi on June 20-21, Kibe briefed delegates on draft regulations that will open Kenya skies to UAVs: “The policy procedures and regulations for remotely piloted aircraft systems…have been approved and will provide a roadmap to the industry,” Kibe told delegates at the event, organised by the International Quality and Productivity Centre (IQPC).…

THE RUSSIAN government is planning to promote exports of Russia-produced poultry meat and pork to China and has already started talks with the Chinese government to secure the necessary health approvals to increase exports beyond current low volumes.

Impetus for the move has come from the top, with Russian President Vladimir Putin stressing in a speech that the government has high hopes for selling poultry to the Chinese, as, according to predictions of the Russian agriculture ministry, China may face with its shortage this year.…