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A comprehensive weekly round-up and analysis of price developments at the major wool auctions around the world.
Insight26 Jan 2015The market was slightly dearer at the sale on January 21, as market conditions remain tough. The Cape Wools Merino indicator gained 3.2% compared with last week, to close at R111.43 per kilo clean.
Insight26 Jan 2015The North Island sale saw prices lift on the back of a weaker New Zealand dollar and steady off-shore interest. Of the 10,077 bales on offer, 97% sold. The weighted indicator for the main trading currencies compared to the last sale on January 15 was down 1.63%.
The Australian wool market eased somewhat this week with the Australian Wool Exchange’s (AWEX) Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) dropping by 3 Australian cents for the week ending Thursday, January 22, closing at 1,051 cents per kilo clean. In US dollars, the EMI fell more significantly by 18 US cents, to close the week at 847 cents per kilo.
Pakistan’s minister for the textile industry, Abbas Khan Afridi, has said the country’s delayed, but still upcoming, five-year textile policy will cater to the needs of the nonwoven textile sector, as it has the potential to grow.
Insight26 Jan 2015News that one of the largest hosiery knitting facilities in the world, based in the US, is to reshore its finishing and packaging operations, increasing its workforce by more than a quarter demonstrates the new confidence permeating US-based manufacturing.
International nonwovens association EDANA has announced the winner of its first ever photo competition. Ms Amparo Belda, who works for Suominen in Alicante, Spain, won EDANA’s ‘A life with nonwovens and related products’ photo contest, with a picture showing personal care wet wipes in use, with a young girl imitating her aunt as she removes her make-up. Ms Belda wins the new iPad mini 3.
High performance fibre manufacturer Teijin Limited will exhibit a range of nanotech materials and products incorporating advanced Teijin technologies during the International Nanotechnology Exhibition and Conference (Nanotech 2015), the world’s largest nanotechnology show, taking place in Japan from 28-30 January 28.
News23 Jan 2015As part of its commitment to responsibly designed products, The North Face, an outdoor clothing brand, has incorporated Unifi, Inc.'s Repreve in its Denali line of fleece jackets. Repreve is a sustainable initiative whereby recyclable plastic bottles are cleaned, chopped and melted to make small plastic chips. These chips are then manufactured into recycled fibre, which is then made into fabric. By using fleece produced from Repreve, more than 30 million bottles are saved from landfills and turned into Denali jackets each year.
News23 Jan 2015Arioli has announced the sale of its first ArioPrint digital textile printer, to a customer in the Como printing district, Italy. The customer has not yet been named but Arioli told wtin.com that it is a large printer that already has seven competitor machines.
According to a study by Grand View Research, Inc., a US based market research and consulting company, the global technical textile chemicals market will reach US$4.96 billion by 2020. The study reports that this growth prediction stems from an increasing penetration of technical textiles across various end-use industries including: medical, military, transportation, agriculture, geotextiles.
News23 Jan 2015Danish flexo technology provider TRESU Group has introduced a printing solution to be integrated in-line with converting machines for disposable sanitary napkins. The unit, custom-developed following long-term collaboration with leading global sanitary napkin brand owners, applies patterns on the inside of the napkin.
