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Shaw Industries Group Inc has announced its ‘grand opening’ of a 20,000sqm (210,000 sq ft) carpet-tile plant in Nantong, China – a port city 65 miles (105km) north of Shanghai. It says the new facility offers customers in Asia quicker access to a wider range of completely recyclable, Cradle-to-Cradle-certified products, which are PVC-free and bitumen-free.
The Clean Clothes Campaign has named more than 20 Western brands that it says were invited but failed to attend a meeting in Geneva, called to discuss compensation for workers and their families, following the Tazreen and Rana Plaza disasters in Bangladesh.
News11 Sept 2013The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) says registration numbers have been granted to 9,030 chemical dossiers that were submitted by the second REACH registration deadline on May 31, 2013. This corresponds to 2,998 more substances being registered under REACH.
News11 Sept 2013The International Cotton Advisory Committee’s (ICAC's) Expert Panel on the Social, Economic and Environmental Performance of Cotton Production (SEEP) has prepared a list of recommended indicators that will serve as the starting point for discussion at its 72nd Plenary Meeting, in Colombia, during the World Café on Challenges Facing Cotton, on October 1.
News30 Aug 2013Since the arrival of 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, WTiN has made the judgement that this technology is outside its scope – a manufacturing rather than product-decoration technique, and one that appeared to have little application in textiles.
