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The impact of contaminated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) on the health of firefighters was one of the topics for discussion at a recent European conference dedicated to the PPE market.
News21 Nov 2014China’s yarn market failed to establish a clear direction this week as feedstock values were mixed.
The Turkish textile and garment manufacturer Ayka Tekstil has told WTiN.com that construction of its new textile and garment industrial zone in Ethiopia, which it is developing in partnership with the Ethiopian government, is likely to begin within the next two or three months.
As part of an IGF research project, scientists at the Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim and the Leibnitz Institute for Interactive Materials (DWI) in Aachen have developed an antimicrobial treatment for wool and other textiles containing wool.
The non-profit organisation, Textile Exchange, which is committed to a sustainable textile industry, has released the result of a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) that it said demonstrates the tangible benefits of organic cotton cultivation.
News21 Nov 2014The Woolmark Company has announced its judging panel for the International Woolmark Prize 2015. The judges include designer Paul Smith; Dylan Jones, Editor-in-Chief of GQ UK; Tim Blanks, Editor-at-Large of Style.com; and Nick Wooster.
Developing partnerships between industry and universities is beneficial, according to a recent study looking at the impact on teaching and learning pedagogy and the knowledge transfer between the tripartite relationship of industrial partner, academic partner and graduate.
News20 Nov 2014A new ink from Pigment.inc is to be compatible with DTG Digital M Series machines, which the companies claim means they have created a direct to garment printer which could print directly onto mixed fibre shirts as well as 100% cotton.
The Russian government is planning to nationalise the textile sector of Crimea, the former Ukraine region it annexed in March, helping spark a series of sanctions against Moscow by the European Union (EU), the USA and others. These restrictions include a ban on western companies trading with Crimea, intensifying economic problems that have worsened since the Russian takeover. Russia has now dubbed Crimea one of its nine federal districts, unless goods and services are routed through Ukraine customs.
The yarn spinning sector has traditionally been a risk-free and stable segment of the Indian textile industry. Large Indian textile corporates such as Vardhman, Nahar, Trident Group and many others in the south leveraged their success in spinning to become the billion dollar textile conglomerates they are today.
