Belgium Textile News Summaries

BELGIUM: Better Digital Direct to Textile Printing with Agfa
Agfa Graphics, announced the latest enhancement to its award-winning :Jeti AquaJet direct dye sublimation printer. The 3.2m :Jeti AquaJet printer is showcased at FESPA 2010, with the latest generation of aqueous-based disperse dye :AquaJet Pro inks, powered by DuPont™ Artistri® ink technology.

BELGIUM: EU Defends Shoe Levy After China WTO Complaint
The European Commission on Thursday defended its penalty taxes on Chinese shoe imports as "the right thing to do" after Beijing launched a complaint with the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

BELGIUM: The Challenges of 20% Growth for Belspeed Fashion Distribution
Belspeed International Fashion Transportation expands capacity in preparation of anticipated 20% volume increase in 2010.

BELGIUM: Belspeed European Fashion 3PL Increases Volume in 2009
2009 volumes have exceeded 2008 in first and second quarters for Belspeed, the European fashion transport and logistics pioneer, in spite of the economically challenged clothing industry.

BELGIUM: The Economic Report' Show Features Belspeed
Fashion designers and brands wanting global notoriety and expansion save time, money and resources by outsourcing their international logistics. Belspeed, the full service logistics and transportation company based in Belgium, has become a cornerstone in the business model that distributes and delivers fashion brands into European and international markets.

BELGIUM: Belspeed International Fashion Logistics is Declared a Gazelle
Belspeed NV/SA won the prestigious first prize for being the most important midsize Belgian transportation and logistics enterprise in 2008 at the annual Gazelles Transport & Logistics event.

BELGIUM: Public Workshop on Textile Biotechnology,
Public Workshop on Textile Biotechnology, 20 Nov. 2008, Brussels

BELGIUM: Van de Velde saw sales grow by 5.9%
Van de Velde NV, Belgium's lingerie maker saw sales grow by 5.9% and operating profit by 8.5% last year.

BELGIUM: Agreement to help boost textile exports
Kenya’s struggling textile industry has benefited tremendously from an interim trade deal that East African Community member states reached with the European Union in Brussels last week.

BELGIUM: EU discovers fraud in imports of textiles and shoes from China
The European Union's anti-fraud office has uncovered a large-scale fraud in imports of textiles and shoes from China. Following close cooperation between the Austrian Finance Ministry, the Customs investigation services

BELGIUM: China should open up more to foreign exporters
The EU executive has said that “The European Union may take a tougher stance towards China over its growing trade surplus with the bloc if Beijing continues to ignore calls to open up more to foreign exporters and investors.

BELGIUM: EU, China to set up joint textile import monitoring system
The European Union and China will set up a joint textile import monitoring system for 2008 to track the flow of 10 categories of Chinese textiles such as bras and bedclothes into the EU, in order to support European producers. The system is called joint import surveillance.

BELGIUM: EU finds new way to handle Chinese textile exports
According to trade officials, European Union and Chinese trade officials have agreed on a new way to handle Chinese textile exports to the bloc when quotas expire on Dec. 31. The plan is expected to improve cooperation between the EU and China over the

BELGIUM: Balta Group adds 4 new brands to Carpet Couture collection
Balta Broadloom, the wall-to-wall carpet division of the Balta Group, recently added 4 different ranges to its successful semi-worsted wool broadloom “Carpet Couture” collection. Balta Broadloom is the

BELGIUM: Clothing importers are against quota extension
The demand by some member states to extend quota restrictions beyond this year on cheap Chinese-made apparels is strongly opposed by clothing importers. They have asked European Union to reject such pleas.

BELGIUM: Louis Dreyfus takes back Qld cotton offer
Louis Dreyfus, the world’s biggest cotton trader, had offered $5.85 per share for Queensland Cotton Holdings Ltd has taken back its offer.

BELGIUM: Huntsman launches Araldite adhesives for RFID tags
The leading global supplier of synthetic and formulated polymer systems, Huntsman Advanced Materials has introduced smart Araldite® adhesives...

BELGIUM: Textile and garment workers abused
Many of the workers are working for half the wages, many children's are employed, are forced to do overtime, are instructed to lie about wages and working

BELGIUM: Belgian garment company withdraws offensive undergarment
A Belgian garment company has withdrawn an undergarment with the picture of Lakshmi, The Hindu goddess of wealth.

BELGIUM: Where are you buying the textiles from?
The Brussels based European Union which represents 27 nations,wants to make it obligatory for exporters to show the country oforigin for textile articles, clothing

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