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Insight1 Apr 2016Molly Hayward, founder of US-based start-up company Cora, talks to WTiN about the launch of its 100% organic tampons which support young women in developing countries.
Insight1 Apr 2016The South African wool market traded 1.3% lower this week and the Cape Wools Merino Indicator decreased by 198 points to close at a value of R155.70 (Clean).
Insight1 Apr 2016The New Zealand wool market's North Island offering of 8,600 bales on March 31 saw an 86% clearance with most types easing in local terms mainly due to a significantly stronger New Zealand dollar.
Sports gear, geo textiles, flags, souvenir clothes, you name it. Every part of Brazil’s textile industry is waiting to see if they will win or not with the Rio de Janeiro summer Olympic Games from August 5 to 21 – but concern is growing that the event will not deliver a much needed boost in sales.
Insight31 Mar 2016Bureaucratic red tape in Ethiopia has stymied Turkish firms’ once ambitious plans to set up shop in the country’s low costs textiles sector. “When you involve the government, this bureaucracy starts,” warned Kemal Oznoyan, a coordinator with Turkish textiles company Ayka Textile, whose Ethiopian subsidiary Ayka Addis has operated a US$140 million textile factory at Alemgena, west of the capital Addis Ababa. “In countries like this, these things [official permissions] take such a long time,” he told WTiN.
Insight30 Mar 2016A leader of Indonesia’s important sarong manufacturing industry has told WTiN.com that he expects sales in this sector to rise by 20% this year compared to 2015. Anies Soengkar, chairman of the Indonesian Textile Association (API - Asosiasi Pertekstilan Indonesia) branch in the key sarong producing centre of Pekalongan, central Java, said domestic and export sales were healthy. The sarong sector had prospered by commercially exploiting the country’s wide variety of traditional motifs and its solid domestic fabric production.
Insight30 Mar 2016Pakistan’s ministry of textile industry wants cabinet support for an action plan to ensure the country’s textile manufacturers receive enough cotton supplies following a slump in local production during the 2015 growing season.
Insight29 Mar 2016Pigments are, as Angelo Marelli, of For.Tex, puts it in a recent article, the hottest topic in digital textile printing. Setting aside their established role in direct-to-garment (DTG) printing, they have been the focus of attention in the roll-to-roll sector ever since the conjunction of faster machines and lower ink prices sparked interest in reactive-dye printing from the home-textile community and persuaded the technology strategists that it was worth pitching for the much bigger prize of high-volume pigment printing – even if there we voices that predicted that the economics would never stack up.
Insight29 Mar 2016In the traditional textile print market, there are more pigment-based inks used than dye-based systems. This is particularly true in the home-furnishings sector, where only pigments can deliver the required light fastness cost effectively.
