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Ahlstrom is commencing negotiations with staff at its Kauttua production line in Finland as part of a previously announced plan to review production capacity and costs there.
News8 Oct 2014More than 600 delegates from the global cotton community joined the International Cotton Association (ICA) in Dubai last week at its ‘Dubai 2014’ trade event.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has posted additional data and added new functions to its ChemView online tool for information on chemicals regulated under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
The Russian government is considering imposing a ban on the imports of textile and nonwovens machinery after October 20, if the EU and the USA further tighten their economic and diplomatic sanctions against Russia as a result of the Ukraine conflict.
Profile7 Oct 2014Technical Fibre Products (TFP) has just announced plans to double its current production capacity through the installation of a third wet-laid nonwovens manufacturing line at its plant in Cumbria, UK. This significant financial investment comes in response to increasing demand for the company’s highly specialised niche market wet-laid nonwoven fabrics in a diverse range of applications.
Pakistan is gearing up to launch a vocational training programme to train 120,000 male and female workers over a period of five years to acquire skills required in the country’s economically important textile industry.
Throughout September, cashmere prices in China have slowly been coming down. The Schneider Group has attributed this to the European economy being quite slow. Additionally, the high stocks in the hands of several traders have made the prices at origin negotiable, Schneider added.
With a consistent and ongoing development agenda for creating and enhancing the basic infrastructure to make it more industry-friendly, the state of Gujarat has taken over the lead in textiles from competing states like Maharastra, Tamilnadu, MP and Punjab.
Insight6 Oct 2014The weaker rand supported the market at this week’s sale and the Cape Wools Merino indicator gained 0.5% to close at R115.26 per kilo clean. This is 3.3% higher compared to the opening sale of this season and 0.1% up compared to the corresponding sale of the previous season.
