Clothing needs to be designed with safety in mind if escalators and playgrounds are not to become a death trap for children. The DIN EN 14682 standard “Safety of children’s clothing – Cords and drawstrings on children’s clothing” contains recommendations how garments for kids aged up to 14 years should be designed.
Year: 2014
Atlas Copco has recently appointed Zhen Chen as General Manager of Atlas Copco Product Company, Pune (India). In his new mission, Zhen will be responsible for the company´s operations at Pune, including both manufacturing facilities – Dapodi and Chakan.
Dr Harish Anand from the Center for Trade Facilitation and Research in Textiles (CTFRT) and from the Corporate Economic Affairs team of Vardhman Textiles has released a research report on ´Global Textile Industry New Dynamics Investment, Manufacturing Locations and Direction of World Trade 2020´ at 8th Asian Textile Conference held in Mumbai.
Waterborne polyurethane raw materials evaluated and certified Bayer MaterialScience and bluesign technologies are joining forces for a sustainable textile industry and want to advance their initiative globally. The two companies have agreed to enter into a strategic alliance for this purpose. The objective is to ensure safe production processes and working conditions along the entire value chain.
Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, in his maiden visit to United States as the Prime Minister of India touted his government´s ambitious plan of ´Make in India´. ´Make in India´ will support and grow the textile industry and world trade between India and other countries. Good governance and low cost of manufacturing are the keys to attract investments in India, said Modi.
The range of uses for synthetic fibres continues to grow: for instance, man-made fibres are used for the production of functional clothing or technical textiles.
Jin lian Hu has obtained PhD from UMIST (now University of Manchester). She joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1994. She teaches a broad range of subjects such as structure and mechanics of textiles, testing and evaluation of textiles and clothing, quality assurance, textile technology and material sciences, as well as hi-tech and non-apparel textiles.