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Review12 Feb 2015ESMA has announced that the next installation of the Printed Interior Decoration (PID) conference will be held in November 2016, looking to build on the success of the first edition held in November last year. The 2016 event hopes to further explore the potential of the interior decoration market and feature a broader approach with designers, creative developers, printers and suppliers, with digitally printed textiles being a key focus.
Insight11 Feb 2015Increasingly over the last few years, sustainable materials have become one of the most fashionable parts of the fabrics and garments presented at design and trend forums. Additionally, this movement has been equally instigated by consumers, who have largely united against the likes of real fur and angora, as by manufacturers, who see a lot of benefit to reducing their water and energy consumption, as well as their chemical use for the processing of fibres, yarns and fabrics.
Insight11 Feb 2015The pressing problems of our age are environmental ones. The environment underpins all of our lives. If environmental conditions change rapidly then all our efforts are reduced to nothing. One of the major ideas to emerge from the environmental movement is sustainable design. In essence this is an attempt to create consumerism that does not alter the overall quantity of resources available to us. Sustainability is to create a system that can be supported indefinitely in terms of environmentalism and social responsibility. Sustainable fashion is part of the larger trend of sustainable design where a product is created and produced with consideration to the environmental and social impact it may have throughout its total life span. The goal is to integrate local ecology into design and construction, to reduce natural resource impacts, minimize non-renewable energy consumption, use environmentally preferable products, protect and conserve water resources, enhance indoor environmental air quality, and improve operation and maintenance practices. However, perhaps the simplest way to differentiate the terms is to say that sustainability is the destination while sustainable development, or more specifically, ecologically sustainable development, is the path we need to take to get there. Sustainability simply means the property of being sustainable.
SpecialChem has announced that it will host an exclusive webinar that will focus on how to ‘Optimize Digital Print Quality on Textiles with Advanced Chemistry’. The webinar will feature: the benefits of digital printing, the parameters affecting digital printing quality and how ink receptive pretreatment technology can solve printing challenges.
News10 Feb 2015Datacolor, a specialist in colour management solutions, today announced the launch of the CHECK 3 portable spectrophotometer. A complete redesign on Datacolor’s previous spectrophotometers, CHECK 3 aims to address formulation and quality control needs of colour professionals in the paint, coatings, plastic and textile industries.
Through the third quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2015, from April 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014, the business environment for the Toyobo Group was characterised by continuing recovery trends against a background of monetary easing in the US through the third quarter, the company reported.
The first company to bring organic cotton bedding to the United States, Coyuchi, has announced today that the brand's classic Air Weight Towel Collection has achieved Fair Trade Certification under the strict requirements set by Fair Trade USA.
Life sciences specialist LifeThreads is partnering with PureTex Solutions, a Florida-based medical laundry and uniform rental firm, to offer the company’s recently introduced antimicrobial, medical apparel product line on a rental basis to the healthcare industry.
Arthur Pottash loves going into work every day and putting in a full day. At 79, an age when most people are long retired, Mr Pottash still helps guide the fortunes of Artex Knitting Mills, a small, but fast-growing manufacturer of knit headwear located in Westfield, New Jersey. Artex is the largest producer of knit hats in the US and has become a big success story over the past few years.
Cashmere prices have remained firm in China, prior to Chinese New Year, The Schneider Group has reported. There are small drops in the 30-32mm types’ prices, but the prices for the best 38mm types remain firm with limited availability. Overall, no price changes have been registered, the group said.
Insight9 Feb 2015India’s textile industry, while a significant global player, continues to struggle in a stop start way, never quite steaming ahead. As the world’s largest cotton producer (est 6.7 million tonnes for 2014/15 season compared with 6.22 million tonnes for China) – India’s textile industry has, in common with China, the advantage of producing one of its key raw materials.
