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News25 Oct 2013Third quarter sales of $2.4 billion in Kimberly-Clark’s (K-C) personal care segment represented a 1% year-on-year decrease, caused, in part, as a result of European strategic changes where sales volumes reduced and currency rates were unfavourable.
News25 Oct 2013Meredian, a privately held biopolymer manufacturer, expects to be producing its new Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), a polymer derived naturally through fermentation of sustainably produced, fully renewable plant derived oils, at full capacity by the second quarter of 2014.
News24 Oct 2013Over the two-day sale this week prices eased across the board, compounded, in part, due to an increase in the US exchange rate. The Australian Wool Exchange’s (AWEX) Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) fell by 0.7% to 1,092 Australian cents per kilo, clean.
News24 Oct 2013Italian textile machinery association ACIMIT saw 70 Chinese textile manufacturers and around 100 local operators attend its technology symposium on technical textiles and nonwovens, co-organised with the Italian Trade Agency, ICE and held held in Guangzhou, China this month.
News23 Oct 2013On April 24, 2013, the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which housed five garment factories, came crashing down, claiming at least 1,130 lives. Cracks had appeared in the wall the previous day, yet thousands of garment workers were forced to return to work in the factories housed on the upper floors.
