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Review21 Feb 2018January saw the return of the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference for its 28th edition to once again showcase the latest developments in an area tipped to revolutionise many consumer and industrial markets
Profile21 Feb 2018UK cloth merchant Dugdale Bros & Co is building on its proud heritage as it evolves its fabric collections and looks to boost its sales in China
The past 15 years have been good times indeed for the denim manufacturing sector of the Indian textile industry, now proliferating to almost 46 existing units and 10-12 more still in the pipeline
Prices19 Feb 2018China is currently enjoying its own New Year holiday, welcoming in the Year of the Dog. Recorded fibre and yarn prices remained stable relative to the week before in terms of yuan but dropped in terms of dollar due to the appreciation of the US dollar against the yuan week-on-week. In China, latest figures provided by China’s National Bureau of Statistics show YTD chemical fibre production dropped marginally by 0.5% year-on-year in 2017 up to December, while yarn production increased marginally by 0.3% year-on-year. Figures provided by the United States Department of Agriculture show Brazil’s projected cotton exports were revised upwards for this market year in January.Total supply and domestic production remained stable relative to projections made in the previous month. Figures provided by the USDA in January also show that African cotton production is expected to obtain an expanding surplus this market year, thanks to a larger increase in production relative to the increase in cotton consumption driven mostly by production activities in Egypt.
