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Insight24 Apr 2015The Adidas Group has announced a new partnership with Parley for the Oceans to tackle ocean pollution, while launching its new Sustainability Progress Report
Insight24 Apr 2015According to China Customs, cotton imports during March amounted to 127,900 tonnes, slumping 19.61% from February and 42.41% compared with the same month of 2014.
A string of industry moves and a highly profitable 2014 has strengthened PGI’s leading position in the nonwovens marketplace. Fiona Haran reports on the recent developments driving the company’s success
Kiian Digital has announced it will use FESPA 2015, in Cologne, as the platform for the launch of its new Digistar range of water based inks for soft signage and textile printing. The company, which will present its new range in Hall 7, Stand K5.
A focus on the converting sector and value addition is crucial for the contined growth of the technical textiles inustry in India, according to President and CEO of Technical Textiles Business at SRF Limited, Mr Sushil Kapoor.
Insight22 Apr 2015Italian company Savio has been working in the textile machinery sector since 1911, when Marcello Savio established a small workshop to repair textile machinery. Some 35 years later, the company developed its first product – the Assembly winder BS.
Insight22 Apr 2015Helped by the stronger feedstock market and the improved business sentiment during the traditional high-trading season, the main viscose producers raised their quotations for staple fibres (1.5den, 38mm) by 150 yuan to 12,350 yuan per tonne on Wednesday, the highest price since last May.
Insight22 Apr 2015Last week, WTiN attended China Interdye 2015 at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Centre, and learnt of the greater effects that China’s recent pollution focused policies are having on its textile dyeing, finishing and coating industry.
Insight21 Apr 2015Historically a domestic show, TPF’s purchase by global events giant UBM back in January signals a progressively international outlook for the show. Visiting TPF last week, WTiN spoke to Margaret Connolly, Managing Director of UBM Asia, to find out what the motivations were behind UBM’s investment and what plans the business has for the future of theshow.
Insight21 Apr 2015The cotton industry has been suffering of late with global overproduction leaving prices down in the dumps. A lot of the focus has been held by China as the main producer and consumer of the fibre, and a nation the policies of which have been seen to have global repercussions. Now, light is being shed on other cotton-producing areas including East and Central Africa, India, Pakistan and Central Asia, which are in need of help.
Insight21 Apr 2015The International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) recently released statistics showing that global yarn production had fallen in the last quarter of 2014 by 1.1% compared to the previous quarter. This decline was largely due to falls in Asian and North and South American production. In contrast to this, the European market was actually fairly strong, with stocks up 3.4% for the same period.
Insight21 Apr 2015Vietnam held its annual Vietnam Saigon Textile & Industry Expo in combination with the Vietnam Saigon Garment & Accessories Machinery Expo from April 9-12, the double event serving as a barometer for the sectors’ high expectations about the country joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. The Expo’s organisers attribute the high annual growth rate in exhibitor numbers and a shift to more sophisticated materials and machinery to expectations that Vietnam’s textile and garment manufacturers will benefit greatly once they gain tariff-free treatment in the US market under TPP.
Insight21 Apr 2015The global staples (polypropylene) PP nonwoven fabric market is expected to reach US$9.02 billion by 2020, according to a new study by Grand View Research. Growing demand for baby diapers, adult incontinence and feminine hygiene products is expected to drive global staples PP nonwoven fabric market over the next six years.
Insight20 Apr 2015In his speech during his stepping down as chairman of the British Wool Marketing Board (BWMB), Northumberland farmer Malcolm Corbett discussed the successes of BWMB, not least of which were its shearing training courses which he believes are responsible for making UK shearers some of the best in the world.
Insight20 Apr 2015Nonwovens and science go hand-in-hand, continually breaking boundaries and exploring new areas of possibility. From nonwoven chemical binders to fabrics shaped by nanotechnology, there aren’t many sectors that nonwovens can’t be applied to in some way. And now, just when we thought we’d seen it all, these dynamic materials show their strength in electrical resistance.
