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A detailed review of movements in fibre, yarn and fabric prices from the previous week, along with changes in production costs.
Insight6 Jul 2015The geotextiles market is predicted to reach US$8,632.83 million by 2019, growing with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.59% from 2014 to 2019, concludes a report from Research and Markets.
Insight6 Jul 2015The International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) has called the 2015/16 season another one of uncertainty. Cotton production has been exceeding consumption for five seasons now and according to ICAC 2015/16 could be the first in many years to buck this trend. However, this is dependent on many factors, not least of which is China’s plans for releasing its huge volume of reserves onto the market.
The Indian textile and clothing sector has gone through a roller coaster ride over the last year and despite a bumper cotton crop for the 2014-15 season, India has been losing export volume to its key competitors, China and Pakistan in the textile segment and Vietnam and Bangladesh in the clothing segment.
Insight6 Jul 2015Back in September 2014, Turkmenistan appointed a new Minister for its textile industry, Tachmammet Gurbanmammedov. The appointment came with the acknowledgement that in recent years, the industry’s development has become stagnant, with little investment in equipment and education, despite a push for investment in 2012.
Insight6 Jul 2015Vietnam’s textile industry now anticipates that an agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal will be struck this year, after US President Barack Obama, on June 29, finally signed a bill giving him fast-track powers to conduct and conclude trade legislation.
Insight6 Jul 2015The Australian wool market weakened again this week, with the Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX) Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) losing 32 cents to close the week on 1,231 cents per kilo clean on Thursday, July 2. In US dollar terms, the EMI dropped by 37 US cents to close at 941 cents per kilo clean.
Insight2 Jul 2015News recently hit the presses highlighting Kraig Biocraft Laboratories’ memorandum of understanding with Vietnam, which represents the foundations of the two collaborating to use transgenic silk worms to finally mass-produce in a cost-effective way spider silk – a remarkable fibre with numerous performance qualities.
Insight2 Jul 2015The organisers of this year’s Brazilian Fashion Show (Salão Moda Brasil), from June 21-23, had both good and bad news to deliver for the country’s knitwear market and industry. The positive side is that the segment is trending up despite the government’s expectation that the overall economy will shrink 1% in 2015. The negative one is that the levels of trade conducted at the show were still much below the figures of two years ago, even given that the sharp depreciation of the Brazilian real (BRL) against the US dollar might be expected to encourage foreign sales.
SALTEX, a brand new fair for smart textiles and fibre composites, will make its debut in Dornbirn, Austria, from 5-6 October, 2016. Organised by Messe Dornbirn, the fair will present innovative solutions for intelligent textiles and fibre composite materials in lightweight construction, as well as bond know-how in the fields of textiles, plastics, mechatronics, electronics, sensors and actuators.
