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TEXTILES and clothing manufacture and sales are all about leveraging resources, from creative talent to quality materials and sophisticated technology. So, enterprise resource planning programmes (ERP) have been attractive for the past 20 years or more and have become an increasingly important tool of manufacturers and brands.…

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In a highly technical textile sector segment such as the manufacture of compressed garments, the use of detailed standards to guide production is not just useful in guaranteeing quality output, it can help manufacturers and brands’ marketing. Where products are associated with international, regional, national and private standards, this builds confidence in consumers, promoting sales.…

AMERICAN automobile designers and marketers need to take a serious account of China’s nationalistic ‘guochao’ trend to buttress sales and protect their market share against strengthening all-Chinese marques, industry experts are warning.

Guochao, which literately translates as ‘national tide’, has seen Chinese companies conquering domestic market shares from foreign rivals in sectors from a wide range of sectors that have long been dominated by international brands, from cosmetics and fashion, yes, to cars.…

A trade war over airplane manufacturing subsidies between the USA and UK, which has led to 25% additional duties being levied on British knitwear exports to America, appears to have been resolved. The EU and the USA have suspended for five years retaliatory duties that both sides have imposed on each other’s exports in the long-running ‘Airbus’ subsidy dispute.…

A novel global taxation system under discussion at the G7, G20 and the OECD will raise minimum tax thresholds for drinks multinationals. However, only a handful are large enough to fall under a rule forcing them to pay tax in all their major markets rather than tax havens or their parent company base.…

SWITZERLAND and the European Union (EU) will gain nothing by throwing away existing trade rules after long-term negotiations to create a new comprehensive EU-Swiss ‘Institutional Framework Agreement’ collapsed, dairy industry experts have told Dairy Industries International (DII).

Talks ended on May 26, when Switzerland’s Federal Council announced it would not pursue its discussions with the EU, over concerns that a major EU deal would undermine Swiss wages, give EU immigrants social benefit rights and reduce Swiss government powers to subsidise particular chosen industries.…

For evidence that China’s nationalistic ‘guochao’ consumer trend is gathering pace in the personal care product sector, look at the country’s powerful e-commerce sector. In February 2021, the turnover of cosmetics on China’s Taobao platform was Chinese Yuan Renminbi CNY14.7 billion (USD2.3 billion), a year-on-year increase of 11%, with the top brand in sales being the guochao-oriented personal care product brand Hangzhou-based Florasis Hua Xizi.…

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Until now, the use of sensors within garments has been regarded as a specialist technical exercise, usually as a means of delivering medical information to doctors, nurses and other health-care professionals. However, production advances, especially the integration of sensors within yarns using nanotech and conductive fibre is opening up a wider range of more user-friendly functions that could bring sensor tech to the mass consumer market.…

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THE MANUFACTURE of protective masks has been maybe the largest growth area in the international textile and non-wovens industry during the Covid-19 pandemic. Billions of people have donned masks as they seek to avoid catching a disease that by June 11 (2021) had killed 3.7 million people and infected 175 million [1].…

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had many profound social and economic impacts, but maybe one of the most important for the clothing and textile sector has been how it encouraged the meshing of design and function in products.

With consumers staying at home, they have looked for apparel to provide comfort as much as formal elegance, of more importance when working in an office or attending public evening events.…