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News6 Nov 2013Gevo, a leading renewable chemicals and next-generation biofuels company, has recorded revenues for the third quarter of 2013 of $1.1 million compared to $0.6 million in the same period in 2012.
A new 3D woven spacer fabric promises to deliver an automotive seat with improved comfort and environmental friendliness. In 1885, the first motor car of Carl Benz had a leather bench on springs mounted on the vehicle frame. In 1908 the Ford T Model used seats stuffed with hair. Since then seat development has evolved to provide the car driver with better safety, comfort and durability.
News6 Nov 2013The International Trade Committee (INTA) of the European Parliament voted in Brussels on November 5, 2013, to defeat a resolution that objected to a Unique Delegated Act establishing a list of 10 beneficiary countries for Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) membership.
News6 Nov 2013According to data published by the Australian Council of Wool Exporters and Processors, wool exports totalled 25,112 tonnes during September, 35% higher than the seasonally-affected August figure, owing almost entirely to a recovery in exports to China. The September total was also 14% up from the year-earlier level.
News6 Nov 2013By the end of last season, figures published by India’s Cotton Advisory Board (CAB) on November 1 suggest that the country’s cotton stocks had fallen to a very low level by the end of last season (India’s cotton season runs from October to September). At 3,500,000 bales (170 kilos) they represented less than one and half months of domestic consumption.
The textiles, nonwovens and technical textiles industries were highlighted at the annual assembly of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry (DG Enterprise) held earlier today. The organisation has a mission to promote a ‘growth-friendly framework for European enterprises’ and is central to the Europe 2020 agenda of ‘smart, sustainable and inclusive growth’.
News5 Nov 2013Grasim Industries Limited, an Aditya Birla Group company, has reported revenue of Rs 6,849 crore ($1.1 billion) and net profit of Rs 450 crore ($72 million) in the second quarter of FY 2014, compared to Rs 6,615 crore ($1 billion) and Rs 620 crore ($99 million), respectively, in the second quarter of FY 2013.
News5 Nov 2013Bark Cloth Europe, one of the 10 winners of the LAUNCH: Systems Challenge 2013, has developed BARKTEX Biomaterial, an economically, environmentally and socially sustainably produced fibre material, which is obtained from rapidly renewable bark.
News5 Nov 2013Domestic cotton prices in India and Pakistan have come under pressure during the past couple of weeks. Since October 21, ex-gin offers of new crop Shankar-6 in India have declined by a little less than 10%, whereas the Karachi Cotton Association’s official spot rate in Pakistan has dropped by around 6.5%.
Insight5 Nov 2013This report, by the leading global media analysts CARMA International Ltd, explores the reaction of the media in Bangladesh and its neighbours in Cambodia, China, India and South Korea. CARMA’s analysis looks at the general nature of the coverage and then explores how key stakeholders are portrayed in the media.
News5 Nov 2013A proposed Tasmanian pulp plant, which could potentially produce the material to replace the island nation’s imported pulp, is a discussion of national importance, according to the Australian Forest Products Association (AFPA).
