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Review31 Jul 2015Always a leader in terms of size and capacity of production, China continues to exert a huge influence across the whole textile industry, including nonwovens, where the country has long been the dominant manufacturer across the Asia Pacific region.
Insight30 Jul 2015Indonesia’s young and upcoming fabric designers are reviving centuries old traditional designs along with natural dyes – and have successfully carved out an export market for the products.
The Cotton market was exceptionally quiet this week in China, as spinners tightened their purse strings amid pessimistic sentiments.
Insight30 Jul 2015A recent improvement in relations with Iran following a deal earlier this month where it agreed to limit its nuclear industry in return for an easing of trade sanctions which had been in place for years is making the country once more an attractive destination for textile machinery exports.
News29 Jul 2015Kimberly-Clark has published its annual Sustainability Report, providing an overview of the company's sustainability efforts by focusing on case studies that highlight social and environmental progress throughout the company's global operations.
Insight29 Jul 2015M&R has announced the launch of the M-Link X direct-to-garment digital textile printer, an enhanced version of the M-Link printer launched in 2014. The main improvement, when compared to the original M-Link printer, is in the speed. The company said that the M-Link X is able to print white shirts in 30 to 45 seconds and dark shirts in less than a minute. The previous version of the printer had a similar capability printing on white shirts but took two to three minutes to print on dark shirts.
Insight28 Jul 2015If this year’s Techtextil trade show in Frankfurt is anything to go by, the marriage of technical textiles and nonwovens makes for a successful combination. And now the industry is set to welcome the return of Hightex, coming to Istanbul, Turkey, on 1-4 June, 2016.
Insight28 Jul 2015India’s knitted garment making hub, Tirupur is banking on two separate free trade deals with Canada and Australia to increase its exports by as much as 20% and 25%, respectively. A Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between Canada and India is likely to be finalised in September this year, boosting exports to Canada, according to Tirupur Exporters’ Association (TEA) president A Sakthivel.
Insight27 Jul 2015The global nonwovens market is currently worth around €26 billion and is forecast to grow roughly 5% per annum, thanks to several megatrends driving the demand. That’s according to the latest market research from nonwovens giant Suominen Corporation, which notes that the general economic situation and consumers’ confidence in the development of their personal finances is determining consumer demand for Suominen’s specialist areas of hygiene and medical products.
Insight27 Jul 2015Adding value is often talked about in the Indian textiles industry. Failure to add value often means that Indian textile manufacturers don’t get decent returns. But a new initiative of the South India Imported Machine Knitters Association (SIIMKA) is set to change all that. The Tirupur knitwear cluster will get Rs 15.5 crore ($2.4m) worth of facilities for adding value to knitted fabrics, testing and training.
