About two and a half million people in Germany regularly work for eight hours or more in the sun. Their risk of developing skin cancer is twice as high as that of those employees who do not work outdoors. Only a very few of them wear special UV-protective clothing, as recommended by the trade unions and the German Social Accident Insurance Association (DGUV). However, the pressure on employers to require such clothing to be worn and/or make it available, may now increase considerably.

Retail Employees Day celebration on December 12 and TRRAIN Retail Awards for customer service excellence. In the last five years, it has created livelihood for more than 2,000 disabled youth and skilled more than 10,000 youth in retail. BS Nagesh, Founder, TRRAIN, has been involved in Shoppers Stop and its group companies since its inceptions in 1991 as the first employee. He is currently the Vice Chairman and Non-Executive Director of Shoppers Stop Limited.

Yoga guru Ramdev-owned Patanjali Group is planning to venture into garments area and a ‘swadeshi’ jeans will be launched by end of the year or early next year. Baba Ramdev said the idea behind his expanding business ventures is to end the dominance of multinational corporations that have for decades been capitalising on the country’s market. There’s a great demand from the country’s youths for jeans, the reason why Patanjali has decided to launch “Indianised” jeans to compete with foreign brands, he said.

In light of recent reports of mislabeling products relating to Egyptian cotton, Applied DNA Sciences, Inc, a provider of DNA-based supply chain, anti-counterfeiting, authentication, genotyping and anti-theft technologies, today provides market data that shows their DNA-based system can be used to monitor, control or eliminate the off-shore substitution of high-value cotton fibres by fibres of unknown origin.

Dr Shashi Kiran Shetty, Chairman, Allcargo Logistics, was bestowed with the Indian Maritime Businessman of the Year 2016 award at the Gateway awards held on August 12, 2016 at The Leela, Mumbai. Allcargo Logistics was also the proud recipient of the Container Freight Station (CFS) of the Year award for the second consecutive year at the award ceremony.

The Bangladesh Textile Mills Corporation (BTMC) is looking at reopening six closed textile mills with Chinese help. The six textile mills owning a total of 153 acres of land are: Ahmed Bawani Textile Mills in Demra, Quaderia Textile Mills in Gazipur, Dinajpur Textiles Mills in Dinajpur, Dost Textiles Mills in Feni, Tangail Cotton Mills in Tangail and RR Textile Mills in Chittagong.

Fong’s, Monforts Fong’s, Xorella, THEN, Goller, FWT and Monforts are the leading brands under CHTC FONG’s Industries, and also the renowned labels in the global textile industry. The CHTC FONG’s Group is proud to present the ‘one-stop’ sustainable solution in dyeing and finishing range of pre-treatment, dyeing, post-treatment and waste water treatment at ITMA ASIA+CITME 2016 in Hall 6, C01, National Exhibition and Conventional Center, Shanghai, China from October 21-25.

The world technical textiles market has been growing at a rate of 5 to 7 per cent since 2010, when its size was $116.5 billion, which rose to $147 billion in 2014. This is expected to reach $198 billion by 2020, disclosed Hendrik H van Delden, Managing Partner, Gherzi van Delden GmbH. The size of the production in these years were 22.5 million tonnes in 2010 and 28.4 million tonnes in 2014, which is expected to touch 38.2 million tonnes by 2020.

EU clothing imports from China dropped by a considerable volume of 9.9 per cent in the first three months of this year compared to that of last year, reveals Textiles Intelligence in a recent report. This drop follows a 12.5 per cent decline in the whole of 2015, which dragged imports down to the lowest level since 2006. The decline in both periods represented the steepest falls among EU’s 10 largest clothing suppliers. As a result, China’s share of EU clothing imports from all sources declined in both periods from 43.3 per cent in 2014 to just 35.1 per cent in the first three months of 2016.