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News22 Sept 2014Outlast Technologies, manufacturer of proactive heat management technology, has partnered with lifestyle brand New Era Cap to develop temperature-regulating hats for players during the 2014 PGA Ryder Cup from September 26-28, at Gleneagles in Perthshire, Scotland.
News22 Sept 2014Cotton futures fell sharply last week, with the most active December cotton contract on ICE Futures US down 3.61 cents, or 5.3%, to 64.39 cents per lb.
According to the China National Bureau of Statistics, fixed assets investment in the textile industry climbed 6.28% to 48.38 billion yuan in August, up 17.47% on the same month last year.
The wool market receded slightly at this week’s sale and the Cape Wools’ Merino indicator shed 1.3% to close the day at R113.97 per kilo clean. This is still 2.1% above the opening sale and is up 4.0% on the corresponding sale of the previous season.
Insight22 Sept 2014The wool sale held in Napier on September 18 was firm to slightly easier in comparison to the previous North Island sale held on September 4. The comparison has been made with the last North Island sale, largely due to the similarities of selection – a predominantly crossbred early shorn and second shear offering.
After a significant climb two weeks ago, the Australian wool market has held on this week, with the Australian Wool Exchange’s (AWEX) Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) coming up 1 Australian cent on the previous week’s sale on September 11. The EMI closed at 1,023 Australian cents per kilo clean on Thursday, September 18. In US dollar terms, the EMI lost 22 US cents, to close at 917 cents per kilo.
The centre of Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia, Gaziantep is preparing to host the OTM Middle East Textile Machinery Exhibition, organised by Tuyap and Teknik in collaboration with TEMSAD Textile Machinery and Accessories Industrialists Association.
Profile19 Sept 2014Today, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) Minister of Science, Ms Svenja Schulza, opened the 80th anniversary of the Instutut für Textiltechnik (ITA) of RWTH Aachen University. Addressing over 350 guests, Minister Schulze explained the importance of the €7m that the state of NRW had given in support of the ITA’s work.
Texworld and Apparelsourcing Paris closed its doors on Thursday evening after four days of trends, designer catwalk shows, the Sustainability Days and an important talk on the responsibility of the textile industry by Jason Kibbey on behalf of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition.
Although outgoing European Commission president José Manuel Barroso, on his late-August visit to Vietnam, presented the planned EU-Vietnam free-trade agreement (FTA) as a nearly finalised deal – and Vietnamese state media predict the signing will happen in October – the Vietnamese textile industry is still unsure about the FTA’s potential impact.
News19 Sept 2014The final SESEC project conference took place this week in Brussels, Belgium, bringing together entrepreneurs, industry representatives, researchers, consultants and policy makers to discuss the most profitable energy efficiency measures.
News19 Sept 2014Lectra has appointed Edwin Ingelaere as director of Lectra Northern Europe. Based in Destelbergen, Belgium, Edwin Ingelaere is responsible for a team of 35 people spread across nine countries: Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands), Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden) and the Baltics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania).
