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News2 Dec 2014The Australian wool industry’s R&D and marketing entity, Australian Wool Innovation (AWI), owner of The Woolmark Company, has signed a Marketing Collaboration Agreement with China’s leading purveyor of luxury menswear, The Eve Group.
As a part of implementing its core strategies, Rieter will be putting an emphasis on innovation and profitability as well as the development of after-sales business over the next three years.
The ability to deliver any carpet colour a customer asks for and total control over a fully integrated manufacturing process are allowing one West Yorkshire UK-based firm to produce high quality carpets with short lead times. Marianne Curtis reports
News1 Dec 2014PrimaLoft, high-performance insulations and fabrics company, has been awarded ‘Best Innovation’ for its PrimaLoft Gold Insulation Down Blend at the annual TGO (The Great Outdoors) Awards, which celebrates the achievements of individuals and organisations from across the outdoor sector.
News1 Dec 2014UK textile mill Hainsworth has launched a striking new Scarlet & Argent collection. The new Scarlet & Argent range includes The Heritage Collection, tributes to the UK’s history with throws inspired by the Battle of Waterloo, Winston Churchill, the Suffragette Movement and more.
While no longer currently experiencing double digit growth, China is still the most reliable engine for new investments by European industrialists in fields such as fibres and textile manufacturing, according to Friedrich Weninger, chief operating officer of cellulosic fibres leader Lenzing, who will leave the company after 25 years’ service at the end of 2014.
Insight1 Dec 2014The wool market came under pressure at this week’s sale on Wednesday, November 26, with the Cape Wools Merino Indicator shedding 1.9% to close at R109.48 per kilo clean. This is a 1.9% decrease on the opening sale and is down 1.8% on the corresponding sale of the previous season. The Australian market indicator gained 0.3%.
Insight1 Dec 2014Australia saw an upturn of the market this week, with the Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX) Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) lifting by 9 cents to close at 1,056 cents per kilo clean on Thursday, November 27, a season high so far. In US terms, the market still had a strong week, gaining 8 US cents over the three days of auctions, to close at 907 cents per kilo.
An initiative led by Europe-South East Asia trade-promotion group EVAlliance aims to transform Cambodia’s low-value-added, largely subcontract-based and textile-import dependent garment-making business into a sector making high-end goods with locally manufactured textile input.
News30 Nov 2014According to data from the China National Bureau of Statistics, fixed asset investments in the textile industry during October reached 54.10 billion yuan, down just 0.37% on the previous month, and 10.42% up on the same month last year.
