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Insight20 Oct 2014This week, the Australian wool market softened somewhat after two weeks of price hikes, with the Australian Wool Exchange’s (AWEX) Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) falling by 7 Australian cents to close at 1,044 cents per kilo clean on Thursday, October 16.
News18 Oct 2014According to China National Bureau of statistics, acetate filament yarn output during August fell 3.03% from the previous month, to 31,000 tonnes, which, however, was up 6.67% on the comparable figure of 2013.
News18 Oct 2014Polyester prices tumbled in China this week along with the collapse of the feedstock market.
According to China Customs, acrylic imports during August amounted to 11,943 tonnes, down 0.62% from the previous month and 36.47% y-o-y.
News17 Oct 2014Rhodia, a member of Solvay Group, will showcase Emana Denim, the first jeans produced with this bioactive-mineral-based polyamide yarn, which is said to aid in skin and body care at the upcoming Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics show in China.
More than 6,000 visitors from 41 countries and regions attended Interstoff Asia Essential. This edition also marked the end of an era, with the organisers deciding to cease holding the fair from next year. “Interstoff has facilitated the expansion of the fashion industry in Hong Kong over the past 27 years; however, textile manufacturing and buying offices have steadily relocated to Mainland China in recent years.
Pierre Wiertz, general manager of EDANA told attendees of the 2014 Techtextil Symposium (Mumbai, India, October 16-17) that the global growth rate of the overall production of nonwovens has outpaced that of many other industries’ since the beginning of the 21st Century, but in doing that, it had more often been following rather than outpacing the global economic growth.
News17 Oct 2014Lectra has won the 2014 International Company of the Year Award for France, as part of EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year awards programme. The programme started in the US in 1986, now spanning 58 countries, and aims to recognise the success of companies and businesses.
News17 Oct 2014According to China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Textile and Apparel (CCCT), cotton fabric exports during August were up 10.99% on the previous month, to 751 million metres, registering the second consecutive month-on-month growth.
