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The demand for cost-cutting information technology (IT) solutions in the Indian textile industry has increased after the sector took a brutal hit owing to the economic downturn. The bigger garment companies that bag regular export orders have been replacing their workforce with ...
India's cotton exports are expected to shrink for this year due to decreasing Chinese demand and lower production combined with higher state purchase prices, according to the Cotton Association of India. Exports are likely to drop 59% to 3.5 million bales in 2008/09, with total ...
INVISTA, one of the world's leading producers of integrated fibers and polymers and owner of the LYCRA fibre brand, is exhibiting its LYCRA 2.0 garment technology at the prestigious Paris Mode City (5-7 September, 2009). Launched to the market last year at the intimate apparel ...
After a disappointing trade policy, the textile sector is not pinning much hope on the textile policy as a best policy, using the resources allocated in the budget, could only support the operating units without reviving closed ones. Global recession has sparked stiff competition ...
The British Fashion Council (BFC) is the latest organisation to become a member of the UK Fashion and Textile Association(UKFT), the leading trade association representing the fashion and textile sector. “UKFT’s aim is to be the ‘single voice’ of the fashion and textile industry, ...
The government of Ghana has declared that provisions for school uniforms should solely be made from fabrics manufactured in Ghana itself. This was declared by the Vice-President, Mr Mahama after meeting stake holders from the textile industry and members of a trade industry body. ...
The foreign trade policy, scheduled to be announced next week, will ease up the process to refund duties to textile exporters, textile minister Dayanidhi Maran said. “Duty drawback rates and anomalies in refund of duties affecting the viability of export will be addressed in the ...
Textile entrepreneurs accepting the first textile policy with some reservations have expressed concern over the delay in the issuance of relevant notifications even after 15 days of its announcement. The benefits mentioned in the policy would be available only after the ...
Dr. Nicole Buckley, Director of Life and Physical Sciences at the Canadian Space Agency, sees many opportunities for the textile industry... in space! Dr. Buckley will be presenting a paper entitled "A New niche for Canadian textiles - in space!" at Expo Hightex (Montréal) on 8 ...
On June 14-15, 2010, NSFC Vice President Prof. Wang Jie attended the 76th IIASA Council Meeting in Vienna, Austria. Over 20 representatives from Austria, China, Egypt, Finland, Germany, India, Korea, Norway, Pakistan, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, United States attended the ...
Thirty bilateral cooperative projects for FY 2010 were approved at the 14th Meeting of China-Korea Joint Committee for Basic Scientific Research held in Suzhou, China from May 18 to 21, 2010, including 19 joint research projects and 11 joint seminars, which are proposed to be ...
On May 15 to 17, 2010, NSFC Vice President Prof. He Minghong attended the JST Green Innovation Symposium --- International Challenge for Promoting Green Innovation to Realize a Low Carbon Society Worldwide in Tokyo, Japan, and presented a plenary talk titled Common Desire to ...
Jointly organized by the Bureau of International Cooperation and the Departments of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Earth Sciences, and Engineering and Materials Sciences of NSFC, the Chinese panel meeting for A3 Foresight Program for the year 2010 was held ...
The 14th Meeting of the China-Korea Joint Committee for Basic Scientific Research was successfully held in Suzhou, China from May 18 to 21, 2010. Through evaluation, the Joint Committee selected 30 bilateral cooperative projects to grant in FY 2010, including 19 joint research ...
The NSFC-supported research vessel Shiyan No.3 , or Experiment No.3, of South China Sea Institute of Oceanology (SCSIO) returned home after fulfilling its mission of the 2010 multi-disciplinary cruise in the South China Sea. A ceremony for its homing was held on May 25 in ...
NSFC Vice President, Prof. Shen Wenqing met with a Korean delegation led by Mr. Gyu-han Bae, Director General of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) on April 16, 2010. Prof. Shen warmly welcomed the delegation and briefed the collaboration between NSFC and NRF. He ...
The 3rd Plenary Session of the 6th National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) General Assembly was held in Beijing on March 23rd, 2010, with the participation of members of NSFC General Assembly, members of NSFC Supervision Committee and NSFC staff. During the opening ...
The Kick-off Meeting for the International Evaluation of NSFC s Funding and Management Performance was jointly held by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Ministry of Finance, P. R. China in Beijing on May 18th, 2010. Prof. Chen Yiyu, NSFC President ...
A Chinese research group, led by Jiang Lei who is a chemist at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and also a CAS academician, made a breakthrough achievement on the mechanism of spider silk s water collection. This significant work was published on ...
On April 29, 2010, NSFC Vice President Prof. Shen Wenqing met with a delegation led by Mr. Masaharu NAKAGAWA, Senior Vice Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan. Prof. Shen warmly welcomed the delegation and briefed NSFC cooperation with ...
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