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Kailas, supplier of mountain sports products in China, received the ISPO Award, designed to celebrate extraordinary sports products.
News9 Dec 2014Uster, manufacturer of quality measurement instruments for the textile industry, is offering two tools for double testing of the combing stage of yarn production, to help mills achieve an optimum balance between cost and quality.
Florian Girmond, Director of Hohenstein’s Consumer Tests Department, will host a webinar on Wednesday, 17 December at 12pm, presenting information on compression testing for manufacturers and brands which market medical, athletic, and wellness compression garments.
News8 Dec 2014Itema, weaving machines, spare parts and services provider, is exhibiting at ITMACH 2014, from December 10-13, and is sponsoring the “India – Opportunities for Global Investment in Textiles” international conference, which will be held alongside the trade fair in Gujarat’s capital, Gandhinagar, India.
The Society of Dyers and Colourists Education Charity (SDC EC, India) has announced that the theme of its 11th International Conference will be “Innovations for Sustainable Textile Production … Connecting the Dots.”
Insight8 Dec 2014Prices declined marginally at this week’s sale on December 3, despite the weaker currency. The Cape Wools Merino Indicator dropped 0.3% to close at R109.20 per kilo clean. This is a 2.2% decrease on the opening sale of the season and 6.3% down on the corresponding sale of last year. On the Australian market, the indicator gained 0.4%.
Insight8 Dec 2014At the penultimate sale before the Christmas break, the Australian wool market took a hit, with the Australian Wool Exchange’s (AWEX) Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) falling by 2 Australian cents to close at 1,054 cents per kilo clean on Thursday, December 4. The big fall was in US dollar terms, in which the EMI receded by 24 US cents, closing at 883 cents per kilo.
Peter Ackroyd, the International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO) president, told delegates at this year's IWTO Wool Round Table that the slowing economic growth in China has led to a fall in sales for several European weavers of wool cloth in this market.
