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A European Parliament probe into the dieselgate scandal kicked off yesterday (March 2) with a row over how far the year-long probe should go in finger-pointing at the car industry. For the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), the European Parliament’s largest political group, Latvian MEP Krišjānis Kariņš warned the new Committee of Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Sector (EMIS): “The EPP will do its utmost to prevent this committee from becoming what could be termed as a witch hunt either against industry or against diesel technologies where Europe has a competitive advantage in the world.”…

THE AUTOMOTIVE industry globally is facing ever-higher demands to improve performance and quality at lower cost and high tech coatings may enable the industry to deliver. The need for energy efficiency and energy reduction were two key messages that emerged from the United Nations (UN) climate change agreement in Paris, December (2015), and the auto industry may well face legal obligations under rules emerging from the agreement struck by the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).…

Free trade agreements with the United States and Europe are essential if the Indonesian textile market is to flourish and compete with strong regional rivals, according to analysts and sector leaders.

The Indonesian government has said it wants to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement agreed by 12 Pacific Rim countries last October (2015).…

A report released yesterday (Mar 10) by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) has advised textile manufacturers to support government efforts to tighten environmental rules, saying they are unlikely to cause a loss of business.

The report is an attempt to dispel the widely-held view that tighter environmental rules increase costs and damages business – especially in emerging market manufacturing hubs.…

Pakistan’s ministry of textile industry wants cabinet support for an action plan to ensure the country’s textile manufacturers receive enough cotton supplies following a slump in local production during the 2015 growing season.

According to current government data, Pakistan’s cotton production dropped 33.85% to 9.71 million bales during this past 2015 growing season.…

BUREAUCRATIC red tape in Ethiopia has stymied Turkish firms’ once ambitious plans to set up shop in the country’s low costs textiles sector. “When you involve the government, this bureaucracy starts,” warned Kemal Oznoyan, a coordinator with Turkish textiles company Ayka Textile, whose Ethiopian subsidiary Ayka Addis has operated a USD140 million textile factory at Alemgena, west of the capital Addis Ababa, since.…

As in many other areas, the Asian city-state of Singapore punches above its weight when it comes to fabrics and textiles. According to its ministry of trade and industry, in terms of sourcing volume the island ranks as the second largest textile and apparel business and sourcing hub in the Asia-Pacific region after Hong Kong.…

A shortage of raw materials and domestic equipment is making import substitution difficult for the Russian textile sector. Indeed, instead of seeing rising production amidst increased rhetoric about localising production, fabric output has slumped across all categories. According to industry insiders, manufacturers are still years away from replacing imports with locally-made products.…

THE HIGH cost of electricity in Cambodia is holding the country’s textile investments from taking off, Blaise Kilian, the advocacy manager of the European Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia (EuroCham Cambodia) has told WTiN.

It is, he said, a “major obstacle” to investments in the textiles sector and “makes it economically unviable to power the heavy machinery required for such activity.”…

The European Union (EU) is considering adopting methods used by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through staging secret tests to check in service cars for type approval compliance. A hearing today (February 23) at the European Parliament’s (EP) key environment, public health and food safety committee learned that with test contents kept secret, automakers cannot design and fit cheat devices to subvert controls.…