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Insight1 Jun 2015The Australian wool market took a sharp upturn again this week. The Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX) Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) rose with 70 cents to close at a new season high of 1,312 cents per kilo clean on Thursday, May 28. In US dollar terms, the indicator climbed by 28 US cents to close once again above the 1,000 cent mark, at 1,009 cents per kilo.
Insight1 Jun 2015In Mongolia, following the new clip from the eastern regions, where better quality cashmere is produced, the western regions (Govi-Altay) are now supplying the fibre, the Schneider Group has reported. This cashmere is comparatively coarser – 17 microns and above – and of lower quality, due in part to the genetics of the animals in that area, but also to the warmest winter in decades, Schneider explained. Despite an 8% rise in volumes compared to last season, the market remained stable.
Insight29 May 2015A consultant on the Asia textile and clothing industry has argued that a recent weak performance in Pakistan’s textile export segment should not be a concern for the country’s government, as long as ready-made-garment sales hold up. Indeed, industry expert and partner at Sydney-based Apparel & Textiles Industry (ATI) Group, Paula Rogers, told WTiN that Pakistan has made a strategic oversight by its past focus on textile processing. This, she said, has made the industry ignore its huge potential for exporting finished textile-based goods.
Wide-format printer manufacturer EFI has pulled out of the forthcoming ITMA textile-machinery show in Milan, WTiN has learned. To date EFI has been only a marginal player in textile applications, which it has addressed through the limited soft-signage capabilities of its VUTEk printers. But this global company has been generally understood to have ambitions for the mainstream textile market and a major ‘pre-ITMA’ announcement was expected at last week’s FESPA exhibition in Germany. The omission of any such announcement and the subsequent cancellation of EFI’s ITMA space must be taken as an indication that the company’s plans have not progressed as rapidly as it had hoped. EFI has yet to comment.
Insight28 May 2015The Indonesian textile industry is being put under pressure to boost its environmental performance by international non-governmental organisation (NGO) Greenpeace, which has accused the sector of poisoning a major river in West Java.
Insight28 May 2015As applications and demand for carbon fibre grow, an acquisition, announced today promises to ramp up production of the material in Spain. Praedium, which owns premium nylon manufacturer Nylstar, has bought Montefibre Hispania, manufacturer of acrylic with its own technology for producing carbon fibre from the latter.
Insight27 May 2015News of the new Indian government coming under pressure from the textile industry in the country’s Tamil Nadu district, has identified the market’s desire to streamline its man-made fibres sector, a growing part of the Indian textile industry.
