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Insight5 Feb 2018Professor Chao Wang from Tsinghua University, China, explains how a self-healing material he developed could one day be applied to textiles
Insight5 Feb 2018January saw the return of ISPO Munich, the international trade show for the global sports industry, following another year of exciting innovations.
The roll-to-roll digital textile printing market is now becoming one of the most well documented and studied markets, as the textile printing industry switches from analogue screen printing to digital.
Prices5 Feb 2018Chinese Anhui cotton yarn prices remained stable in yuan terms relative to the week before, but rose in dollar terms due to further devaluation of the dollar against the yuan. YTD profits in wearing apparel and clothing dropped marginally relative to the same period the year before, according to YTD profit figures provided by CEIC and China’s National Bureau of Statistics. YTD profits among textile manufacturers also dropped year-on-year as well. Provisional figures provided by The State Bank of Pakistan show Pakistan’s textile trade surplus dropped 1.9% year-on-year in 2017 up to December relative to the year before as imports rose at a faster pace than exports. Karachi cotton and global cotton prices dropped relative to the week before, signalling a correction in the market. India is expected to maintain higher cotton prices due to short cotton outputs in pest-infected states of Maharashtra and Telangana. USDA revised downwards India’s projected cotton production for the 2017/18 market year relative to projections made in the previous month, due to a downward revision in expected yields.
Insight5 Feb 2018SoftWear Automation, based in Atlanta, US has launched a new Sewbot production line. The Digital Footwear Upper Workline, which is available for global pre-order, expands the patented Sewbot Pick-Place-Sew automation for fully-automated shoe uppers.
