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Cost cutting pressures, competition from low cost countries and constantly emerging incremental technologies have become industrial norms these days. How can industries such as textiles and manufacturing survive in these competitive climates? It is a luxury to utilise resources and talents belonging to others by creating win-win situations.

Messe Frankfurt Texpertise Network has launched a global partnership with the Conscious Fashion Campaign and the United Nations Office for Partnerships to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals into over 50 leading international textile trade fairs, which in all attract more than 22,000 companies and over half a million trade visitors annually.

Yields in the High Plains of Texas are expected to be below what was expected. “Yields are 25-30 per cent off the normal,” stated Mark Brown, director of field services for Lubbock-based Plains Cotton Growers (PCG), Inc.

Four new organisations have been added as ZDHC contributors. Solution provider, Kaken Test Center and Achille Pinto from the textile and footwear industry have joined as part of the value chain affiliate category.

Applied DNA Sciences, a leader in polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based DNA manufacturing for product authenticity, traceability solutions and nucleic acid-based biotherapeutic research, announced the appointment of Scott L Anchin to its Board of Directors following the resignation of Director Dr Charles Ryan.