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Prices22 Sept 2017Weekly analysis of the Australian Wool Market by Chris Wilcox, Executive Director of the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers of Australia.
Insight21 Sept 2017After last’s week’s CAMX (Composites and Advanced Materials Expo) was postponed in the wake of Hurricane Irma, event organisers have announced it will be rescheduled for winter 2017.
Insight21 Sept 2017Dover Corporation, an American conglomerate manufacturer of industrial products, has employed Joseph Dawson as its new vice president, sales & marketing for soft signage solutions.
Next week will see the return of Outlook, the premiere event for discussion on the hottest trends in the world of nonwovens for hygiene and personal care.
Intelligence18 Sept 2017There is an increasing demand for smart textiles in both the consumer and research spaces, from industries such as medical, healthcare, sport, fashion, entertainment, military and protection. Electrically conductive fibres are key components in smart and interactive textiles. This report focuses on conductive textile materials and will discuss various approaches to produce electrically conductive textiles for smart textiles needs, including metallised textiles, conductive polymer-based textiles and nanocarbon based conductive textiles. Moreover, some recent smart textiles developments using the above mentioned technologies, in applications from healthcare and safety to sport and fitness together with some of the commercial manufacturers of conductive textiles are introduced.
Prices18 Sept 2017The value of the yuan dropped 1.12% week-on-week against the dollar. Despite this, Chinese staple fibre and yarn prices moved positively this Friday relative to the week before. Due to the positive year-on-year production figures for yarn and cloth in China, the outlook looks positive this year relative to the year before. The USDA’s forecasts in August for 2017/18 show expected total supply of cotton in India increased relative to expectations made in July, due to higher initial reserves than previously estimated. This is while expected demand for cotton dropped due to underperformance in India’s domestic market.
