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S&V Footwear & Leather Goods Magazine Vol81 No2 Feb 2018

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IN THIS ISSUE:

Industry Barometer: Mixed Messages
- EVA Industries: Mixed bag, with exports potentially a game changer.
- FQ Manufacturers: Quicker deliveries, smaller quantities are what market wants.
- Elahi Footwear: Waiting for component prices to come down.
- Fiona Spolander Promotions: After a dismal 2017, a sense of hope - and good export sampling.
- Le Coq Sportif: Shaping up to be out best year ever.
- Amagents: Sluggish start, but improvement is possible now.

Zimbabwe
- Comesa sets aside US$2.6 million for leather and clothing sectors.

Conventions & fairs
- Global interest as UITIC attracts 95 potential papers.

Company News
- Eco Rubber: PVC capacity boosted.
- Enda: Kenyan designed and assembled running shoes to be exported to US.
- Willow: Footwear 'without boundaries'.

Training
- VUT offers footwear training.

AGOA - US importers want Africa to succeed
- AAFA: Why Africa must be developed as major source of apparel.
- FDRA: Ethiopia has grabbed its opportunity to export footwear to the US.
- DTI: USA is SA's third biggest trading partner for imports and exports.

Technology
- Making a shoe trim using 3D CAD, by Russell Addinall, Studio Eclectica.
- Main Group Technologies to emphasis energy saving at Simac.
- Flex outlines 'the top 5 trends shaping manufacturing's future'.
- SoftWear Automation launches first sewbots for shoes.

Counterfeits
- SARS claims victories in fight against illegal clothing and textile imports.
- Army patrols seize illegal imports on Mozambique border.



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  • Op Corona patrol seizes a thousand plus pairs of counterfeit trainers
    Written by defenceWeb, Monday, 05 February 2018Combining training with hands-on patrol work saw two SA Army units score a notable success in the fight against contraband and counterfeit goods in the early hours of Friday last week.A company from 14 SA Infantry Battalion is currently deployed on the South Africa/Mozambique border as part o ...more
  • SARS scores victories in fight against illegal clothing and textiles imports
    Pretoria, 18 December 2017 - The local clothing and textile industry has suffered tremendously as a result of the illegal import of counterfeit goods. More recently the industry has also borne the brunt of the import of second-hand clothing that becomes available for resale in the market.Over the past two days (17 and 18 December 2017), C ...more
  • DTI: USA is SA's third biggest trading partner - for imports and exports
    Post-hearing statement by the Department of Trade and Industry on behalf of the Government of the Republic of South Africa on the occasion of the US International Trade Commission’s investigation on US trade and investment with Sub-Saharan Africa ...more
  • Main Group Technologies to emphasise energy saving at Simac 2018
    Santa Maria di Sala, Italy, January 16 - Main Group Technologies,  which now belongs to the Atom group, will show innovations aimed at energy saving at Simac. "We look to the future in full awareness of the fact that the footwear production will be increasingly oriented towards automated processes and interconnected machines,&rd ...more
  • Flex says these will be the top 5 trends shaping manufacturing’s future
    Vamp Footwear, January 3, 2018If your manufacturing isn’t optimized for today’s digital ways, it might as well be in the Dark Ages.Whether it’s Industry 4.0, Sourcing 4.0, the factory of the future—it’s clear that companies are shifting their means of production to cater to current demand. Flex, now known in ...more
  • SoftWear Automation launches first sewbots for shoes
    Sourcing Journal, February 1, 2018The robots are coming—and SoftWear Automation’s latest innovation is enabling the footwear sector to automate the production process for shoe uppers. The Atlanta-based tech company launched the Digital Footwear Upper Workline, an expansion of the patented Sewbot Pick-Place-Sew automation for s ...more
  • FDRA: Ethiopia has grabbed its opportunity to export footwear to the US
    Written comments from the Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America to the U.S. International Trade Commission by Matt Priest, President & CEO, Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America (FDRA), on February 6. ...more
  • AAFA: Why Africa must be developed as a major source of apparel
    A presentation to the United States International Trade Commission by Nate Herman, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain, American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA), on January 29Thank you for providing us this opportunity to testify today regarding U.S. Trade with Sub‐Saharan Africa. Representing more than 1,000 world famous name ...more
  • US importers want Africa to succeed as a footwear, clothing source
    US importers see Africa as an important upcoming source of footwear and clothing. Mark Bennett, a consultant most recently to the Lesotho Government, has been watching presentations by US trade organisations, and the SA Department of Trade & Industry (DTI), to the US International Trade Commission (USITC), which has been requested by ...more

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Leather Industry Articles

  • Sam Setter's 'Pills': A different perspective
    One reader, Marc, commented on my March Pill: ‘Sam, the real frustration isn’t the criticism itself. It’s that we haven't been able to get our message outside our own echo chamber. I'm interested. How would you see the leather industry actually breaking through that barrier? In 2026, trust rarely comes from industry stat ...more
  • ‘ESG is a global requirement’
    Deborah Taylor, Sustainable Leather FoundationShe spoke about the SLF’s role in supporting harmonisation and minimising duplication of effort across the leather value chain, its education and training, development of robust and credible standards, and advocacy of the leather industry.She quoted the first definition of sustainability ...more
  • Kenya announces $39 million investment to strengthen livestock production
    Kenya plans to launch a 5 billion-shilling ($38.6 million) investment program to modernize its livestock sector and strengthen one of the country's most important rural industries.President William Ruto announced the initiative on June 1 during a visit to Wajir County in northern Kenya.According to the Ministry of Agriculture, the program ...more
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PPE Industry Articles

  • Biodegradable disposable gloves ‘a growing trend’ in PPE
    The poster is available to download in English in both PNG and PDF formats hereCompostable and biodegradable PPE are said to be rapidly growing trends internationally, lead by brands like Showa and HaPPE Earth.The nova-Institut für politische und ökologische Innovation GmbH in Hürth, Germany, has published an updated versio ...more
  • China-made firefighting equipment now needs verification of conformity with SANS standards
    Pretoria, Gauteng, SA – Firefighting equipment is among the 25 product categories published on 01 April by the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition for a mandatory Pre-Export Verification of Conformity (PVoC) Programme.The system will require certain goods shipped from China to be tested and certified before they enter the ...more
  • JCB Footwear steps into a new era
    JCB Footwear has announced the relaunch of its product range in South Africa, marking a new chapter for the brand in partnership with newly appointed distributor, Kaliber Safety Footwear, which is no stranger to the industry with its own successful range of safety and security footwear products.The relaunch introduces an entirel ...more
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