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Pricesfree17 Dec 2018Mono ethylene glycol prices declined in Asia on weak market sentiment, despite an uptick in polyester sales and gains in crude oil prices
Pricesfree17 Dec 2018According to the latest WASDE report, global forecasts for cotton in 2018-19 were lower production and consumption, higher trade, and slightly higher ending stocks compared with its previous month’s estimation.
Autoneum, a leader in acoustic and thermal management for vehicles, has recently announced changes to it Group Executive Board.
Insightfree14 Dec 2018With their carpet companies Infloor and Girloon, Stefanie Ritterbach and Ulrich Dresing have successfully established digital carpet printing production. They expect that the many advantages of digital technology will boost the sales of textile floor coverings, according to Zimmer Austria.
Insightfree13 Dec 2018It was expected that 2018 would be a quiet year for the digital textile printing sector, as innovation remains behind closed doors and investments are put on hold until ITMA 2019. But there have been some interesting developments in the market, as Tansy Fall reports
Intelligence12 Dec 2018Shifting global economics and consumer practices are having a profound impact on offshore manufacturing models, feeding into the resurging concepts of reshoring and nearshoring. These latter business strategies bring not only benefits to companies and their consumers – with a cost-benefit analysis that favours manufacturing in the domestic market – but they also offer environmental benefits.
Insightfree11 Dec 2018European Union (EU) textile finishers and their suppliers will, from January 2020, have to check whether the chemicals they use contain nanoparticles, and if they do, assess their safety and report the results to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).
