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Texprocess is offering international universities, institutes and fashion academies the chance to present their courses and programmes of study free of charge at the event in 2015. The organisations should apply to Texprocess Campus by December 5, 2014.
A detailed review of movements in fibre, yarn and fabric prices from the previous week, along with changes in production costs.
Beaver Paper and Graphic Media, manufacturer of engineered paper and textiles for the dye sublimation digital printing process, has appointed a number of members to its sales team.
The Harris Tweed Authority – the statutory body safeguarding the Harris Tweed name – has secured a monetary settlement from US retailer Euromarket Designs for using the Harris Tweed name in a new collection of chairs, which have been found not to contain the material.
The cashmere market in China is quite slow and without sales, so prices remained stable this week. It is still possible to buy good quantities from the new clip, the Schneider Group explained. Despite it not being of the best quality, it is expected that after the summer holidays in Europe, the demand will increase, Schneider added.
Insight8 Sept 2014The wool market was firm at this week’s sale and the Cape Wools’ Merino indicator gained 1.5% compared with the previous sale a fortnight ago, to close at R 113.32 per kilo clean. Although this is an increase of 1.5% on the opening sale, prices declined 2.3% compared to the corresponding sale of the previous season.
Insight8 Sept 2014The Australian wool market has seen a strong upturn this week, with the Australian Wool Exchange’s (AWEX) Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) rising by 23 Australian cents on the previous week’s sale (August 28). The EMI closed at 1,025 cents per kilo clean on Thursday September 4. In US dollar terms, the EMI increased by 21 US cents to 958 cents per kilo.
News5 Sept 2014VDMA Textile Machinery has invited seven young engineers on a zeppelin flight over the lake Constance region in recognition of their outstanding dissertations, Masters theses and project studies. The organisation is working with the Walter Reiners-Stifung foundation of the German textile machinery industry to promote junior engineers.
Polymer Group Inc (PGI) has added a new Spinlace line to its facility in Benson, North Carolina, which increases capacity by 300 million square metres. The line is the second of this kind in the Benson plant and will be commercial during this quarter.
