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Insight6 Oct 2014The North Island sale on October 2 saw wool prices continue their upward trend. With interest still continuing from China and pressure for exporters to meet shipping requirements mounting, wool prices climbed higher than expected.
Insight6 Oct 2014The Australian wool market lifted strongly this week, with the Australian Wool Exchange’s (AWEX) Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) climbing up 15 cents to close at 1,038 cents per kilo clean on October 2.
Weaving technology manufacturer, Picanol is organising an open house in Daegu, Korea, from Monday 6 October until Wednesday 8 October 2014. This event, which is aimed at Korean weavers, will see Picanol demonstrating its latest rapier technology and offerings for technical textiles, with a specific focus on its OptiMax machine.
Up until 2006, HanesBrands and DBApparel (DBA) were sister companies under the ownership of the Sara Lee Corporation. Their origins lay in the International Laytex Corporation, which was the first company ever to advertise a bra on television, with Playtex back in 1955 – having first entered the intimate apparel market with the introduction of the ‘Living Girdle’ during World War II.
News3 Oct 2014Clariant’s oligomeric phosphonate polyol (OPP) flame retardant has been identified by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a safer alternative to pentabromo diphenylether (pentaBDE), traditionally used for giving fire protection to foam.
News2 Oct 2014The Oeko-Tex Association has launched the ‘Made in Green by Oeko-Tex’ label as a new level of certification for textiles that are proven to be both safe in terms of human ecology and produced in a sustainable and socially responsible manner.
Euratex, as the main voice of the European textile and clothing industry, is deeply involved in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations and sees them as an opportunity for facilitating trade to the mutual benefit of European and American companies, in particular SMEs.
A Textile Technology Business Centre (TTBC) was launched in Bangladesh this week. The centre was set up by the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) with support from the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands (EKN) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and is part of the Partnership for Cleaner Textiles (PaCT) programme.
News2 Oct 2014At the end of 2013/14, international cotton prices were around 80 cents/lb and have continued falling in the first two months of the new season. Given the predicted 1.8 million tons of surplus cotton production and changes in China’s cotton policy, prices are unlikely to rise to the levels seen in the last two seasons.
