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Insight19 Oct 2015‘Master the art of sustainable innovation’ is the invitation from the organisers of ITMA 2015, and this key will theme will be threaded throughout the week-long show.
News19 Oct 2015Attracting new talent to the textile machinery industry remains difficult, agreed textile machinery manufacturers and educators at a recent debate at the Swissmem Press Conference, held in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland.
A comprehensive weekly round-up and analysis of price developments at the major wool auctions around the world.
The market was slightly lower at last week’s South African wool sale with the Cape Wools Merino Indicator declining 0.9% compared to the previous sale to close the day at a value of R121.63 (Clean).
Last week the Australian wool market followed a similar pattern as the previous week, as the Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX) Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) dipped in local currency terms, but remained stable in US dollar terms, as the Aussie dollar strengthened again.
Intelligence16 Oct 2015Italy continues to hold its own at the forefront of digital textile printing and did so through early 2015 despite experiencing a number of years of extremely high growth and being an already well-established industry. While the first half of the year saw the numbers of new installations slow compared to both previous years and global averages, 50 new machines where still installed over the half. This helped push the output volume to over 62million sqm for the half, producing a like for like growth rate of 5%. This increase, while small, helped Italy remain the second most important market for digital textile printing globally, behind China and ahead of competing local markets such as Turkey and Spain, which continue to see higher growth.
Insight16 Oct 2015The Indian technical textile industry is hoping it will increase exports and raise production quality as a result of a private sector-led cooperation agreement with the US. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) are driving the process which will involve the development and dissemination of standards for these products.
News16 Oct 2015Appleton based printed table cloth specialists, Harberson Ltd has enjoyed a long-standing relationship with the corporate linens industry, with the business transforming itself from simple supplier to now offering bespoke dye-sublimation printing of tablecloths and linen for the exhibition industry due to its investment in a Mimaki TS34-1800A.
Insight15 Oct 2015The Indonesian textile industry hopes new protective import tariffs on textile products, set by the government last July, will help boost revenues in local companies, creating more profits and jobs.
Insight15 Oct 2015Turkey’s textile and clothing sector is keen to revise the country’s 1996 customs-union agreement with the European Union, especially to enable reciprocal market access for Turkish exporters in respect of countries forging trade deals with the EU.
