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.
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India’s merchandise exports fell for the second consecutive month in August, going down by a marginal 0.30 per cent.
Qlik, a leader in visual analytics, has announced that Tantex, a Singapore-based textile and garments design and supplier, has chosen Qlik for its visual analytics platform. Using Qlik platform, Tantex can analyse over 25 years’ worth of data to identify the latest fashion trends, forecast demand, and provide spot-on advice to fashion retailers. Over the years, as Tantex’s list of global retailers grew and the company expanded into more markets, executives found it challenging to analyse numerous reports that were formatted differently across departments and countries.
Prospects of bamboo application in textiles cover a wide area and it has tremendous scope for the textile and apparel segments, opine P Senthilkumar, AN Sai Krishnan and C Prabakaran.
Application of textiles covers the entire spectrum of day to day clothing to the functional textiles. Application of new fibres in textiles will be prerequisite for the manufactures to diversify the product. Cellulose are produced from a renewable resource that is pulp from the trees which can be cultivated on the land. Cellulose offers wider variety like comfort, water absorbency.
For the second quarter of 2016 Thailand-based Indorama Ventures’ profit after tax and non-controlling interests rose 74 per cent year-on-year driven by margin recovery in the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) segment and contributions from additional feedstock volumes.
After the grand success of the World Textile Conference 2011, the Textile Association of India (TAI) is organising the 2nd World Textile Conference (WTC-2) on September 16 and 17, 2016 at Hotel Sahara Star, Mumbai. The theme for this conference is: “World Textile: Growth & Great Opportunitiesâ€Â.
India and Turkey have their own advantages & disadvantages, says Raj Tilgul of Rama Dis Tic. ve Danismanlik Ltd, in an in-depth SWOT analysis of these two most important textile countries.
India and Turkey are one of the major textile producing and trading countries in the world. There is always a clash of interest as to who is going to export to whom and when, as Turkey is one way a competitor to India and on the other hand a buyer as well. Below is a detailed SWOT analysis and recommendations to both the countries or their trade associations in order to smoothen and develop sustainable trade relations.