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News briefsContainer xChange: Peak shipping season could be worse than last year
More than half (51 percent) of 200 forwarders, traders and shippers surveyed recently by Container xChange, a Hamburg, Germany-based technology infrastructure provider for container logistics companies, are predicting a “worse” third quarter shipping season than in 2021 when cargo surges resulted in record container shipping freight rates, delivery delays, port ...
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News briefsNew Balance joins Land to Market
New Balance has announced its membership in Land to Market, an outcome-based verified sourcing solution for raw materials from verified regenerative land with headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. Regenerative agriculture is a conservation and rehabilitation approach to food and farming systems that goes beyond sustainability to improve the entire ecosystem continuously. ...
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News briefsJP Modatex premiers stretch linen with DuPont Sonora fibers
JP Modatex, an Indian manufacturer of premium and specialty ring spun yarns for apparel and home textiles, has managed to blend linen fibers with DuPont’s Sonora stable fibers, a partially plant-based polymer material, to create ring-spun linen-based yarns and fabrics that offer comfort stretch. As linen is so far impossible ...
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News briefsKeynote speakers for Better Cotton Conference announced
The Better Cotton Conference in Malmö, Sweden, on June 22 and 23, has announced two of its keynote speakers: Balubhai Parmar and Lacy Vardeman. Parmar is a cotton grower from Gujarat, India, who leads an enterprising group of Better Cotton farmers that are all small enterprises. At the conference, he ...
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News briefsPerformance Days & The Loop: The industry reunion on April 27-28
The specialized ingredient sourcing show Performance Days and its digital version The Loop are thoughtfully aligned with the sourcing schedules of the industry and give product designers and managers the chance to finally meet in person again. On April 27 and 28, the industry is offered the chance for face-to-face ...
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News briefsU.S. Customs detains goods from Li-Ning at border
Effective March 14, 2022, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has detained merchandise produced or manufactured by Li-Ning at all U.S. ports of entry. The measure is the result of an investigation by the CBP indicating Li-Ning uses North Korean slave labor in its supply chain. In the statement, ...
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News briefsDecathlon partners with GIZ on sustainability efforts in Vietnam
Decathlon and the German Development Agency (GIZ – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) will be collaborating this year on two joint initiatives to reduce the environmental impact of Vietnam’s garment and textile factories. The two joint projects are “Climate Protection through Sustainable Bioenergy Markets in Vietnam” (GIZ BEM) and “Fostering ...
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News briefsTrusTrace starts new software solution for real-time traceability from fiber to product
Software service supplier TrusTrace, based in Stockholm and Coimbatore, India, has launched its new TrusTrace Certified Material Compliance platform, a software solution that aims to link all purchase orders to production steps, certificates, supplier declarations and quality reports for real-time traceability. The new TrusTrace Certified Material Compliance service wants to ...
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News briefsNew Bleckmann distribution center opened in the U.K.
Bleckmann, a leading Dutch provider of supply chain management services to the fashion and lifestyle market with customers such as Gymshark and Superdry, among many others, has opened a new fulfillment center in Lutterworth, its fourth location in the U.K. The brand new building at Magna Park has a floor ...
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Google develops geographic fiber-tracking tool
Google has added a tool to its Google Earth Engine to gauge fibers by their geographic effects on the environment (air pollution, biodiversity, greenhouse gas emissions, effects on forestry, water use, etc.) and thereby guide textile brands to reduce the carbon emissions of their raw materials procurement. Developed in partnership ...
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Karakoram to make snowboard bindings at a new U.S. factory
While continuing to get them made in the U.S., Karakoram, the American supplier of splitboard bindings founded by Bryce and Tyler Kloster in 2008, will move into a new factory in North Bend, Washington state, close to the mountain region around Snoqualmie Pass. The company has just come out with ...
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Chinese power crunch adds to viral and shipping problems
Alarming new reports are coming in about serious shortages of components and finished products made in China, which may prevent brands, distributors and retailers in all the sectors to respond to a surge in post-pandemic demand ahead of the critical Christmas selling season. One major cause is a big shortage ...
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Kingmaker prepares to reopen a Vietnam factory
After nearly three months of halted production, Kingmaker’s footwear factory in the Binh Duong Province in southern Vietnam is now ready to restart operations in several phases. The region in which the plant is located has obtained “green zone” status, and over 70 percent of the factory’s employees have received ...
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Norspo fair is cancelled, may be shifted to November
The Norwegian sporting goods show, Norspo, which was going to take place in Oslo on Jan. 9 and 10, has been cancelled like the one that was going to be held last January. Trond Evald Hansen, general manager of Norspomessen, is now betting that the new winter fair will take ...
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Sri Lanka defies supply chain problems
In contrast with some other sourcing countries, Sri Lanka seems to be poised to meet its targets for apparel exports, thanks to a successful anti-Covid vaccination campaign. An executive committee member of Sri Lanka’s Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF) told just-style that the country’s garment exports went up to $2.75 ...
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Vietnamese plants will reopen as more than a third of the population is vaccinated
Big and small sports companies relying on Vietnam to source some of their apparel and footwear are breathing a sigh of relief as the factory lockdowns imposed in mid-July are due to be lifted on Oct. 1, as expected, although it will take months to take the production back to ...
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Callaway and acquired brands perform better than expected
Callaway Golf Company has upgraded its guidance for the third quarter and the full financial year after mitigating some supply issues and registering higher-than-expected results at TravisMatthews, Jack Wolfskin and Topgolf in July and August. The group said it has successfully shifted some production out of Vietnam to avoid Covid-related ...
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Vietnamese manufacturers react to the spreading virus
More than 1,000 companies operating in various sectors in the Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) region have managed to keep most of their workers on site, accommodating them in their factories or transporting them from hotels and other lodgings, to help avoid a shutdown of their operations due to the ...
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Assosport expects Tokyo 2020 to boost Italy-Japan trade, despite the pandemic
Assosport, the Italian sporting goods industry association, has emphasized the importance of the Games for the industry, despite the restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, notably the absence of spectators at the events. The Olympics nevertheless provide a special showcase for companies to present their products to the rest of ...
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Chinese port congestion won't be cleared until the end of June
A backlog at Yantian, China’s largest container terminal, will take several weeks to clear, according to Maersk. The world’s largest shipping company told the news agency AFP that it had been informed by the port’s authorities that activity will return to normal by the end of June. The terminal had ...
