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Insight15 Aug 2016At the first week of sales following the three-week midyear recess, the Australian wool market fell due to a stronger local currency.
Insight15 Aug 2016An increasingly diverse range of brands are using 37.5 – a fibre technology created using volcanic sand and coconut shells, designed to enhance the properties of natural fibres such as wool, cotton and silk.
Cotton values continued to fall on Friday as buying interest from traders and yarn mills ebbed, leaving the China Cotton Index at 14,746 yuan a tonne.
Insight10 Aug 2016Munish Tyagi discusses the strong case for India’s home textiles industry to be treated equally to the country’s much-favoured apparel sector by the government to further boost its growth.
Insight8 Aug 2016The United States Fashion Industry Association (USFIA) has predicted that Vietnam’s position as a key supplier of clothing, and hence a buyer of textiles, will remain strong, even if the USA fails to ratify the TPP trade deal.
Insight5 Aug 2016Three years on from the Rana Plaza disaster, in which the collapse of a building housing a garment factory killed well over 1,000 workers, Bangladesh is still not meeting internationally accepted labour conditions.
