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News17 Jul 2014Boosted by feedstock replacement costs, polyamide values inched up in China on Wednesday. The prices of the key product, polyamide 6 (FDY 70den/24f), rose by 150 yuan per tonne, to 22,400 a tonne on July 16.
The organisers of the 6th World Conference on 3D Fabrics and their applications have issued a call for papers. The event is set to take place from May 26-29, 2015, at North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, USA, coordinated with TEXCOMP-12 at the same location.
News17 Jul 2014Europa, Tuscan textile manufacturer of stretch and super-stretch cotton fabrics, has revealed its Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 collection. The company caters for the casual, sport and denim clothing sectors, and boasts a fully traceable supply chain and a ‘100% Made in Italy’ production.
Global textile and garment technology suppliers have snapped up space at next year’s ITMA exhibition in Milan. ITMA 2015, the world’s most established textile and garment machinery exhibition, had attracted more than 1,300 applicants from 43 countries by the application deadline of 4 July.
Wacker Polymers is raising the prices for vinyl acetate-ethylene and ethylene-vinyl chloride-based copolymer dispersions of the Vinnapas and Vinnol brand in the Americas and Greater China. Effective from August 1, prices will increase by $0.03 per pound in the Americas and by CNY300 per ton in China.
News16 Jul 2014FESPA Digital 2014 in Munich, Germany, attracted over 100 Chinese printers, double the number that attended FESPA Digital 2011 in Hamburg. The increased attendance from China suggests that the direct presence of FESPA in China since 2013 is driving interest among Chinese specialist printers, organisers said.
The European Union (EU) and Japanese nonwovens industries are backing a successful conclusion of negotiations between the EU and Japan on a free trade agreement (FTA). The talks, which began in March 2013, have entered a scheduled review phase after what seems to have been a testing first year though “work and consultation with the EU member states is ongoing and the talks have not broken down, that’s clear,” said John Clancy, the Commission’s trade spokesman. The EU had warned from the start that it would stop the talks after a year if there had been no commitment from the Japanese to remove non-tariff barriers to trade. But that has not happened. Nonwovens industry associations are now awaiting with considerable interest the imminent publication of a report from the European Commission on the state of the talks.
Novozymes engaged an independent research company to take to the streets in both France and Germany and randomly recruit 310 survey participants. With the survey results demonstrating that 86% of the participants purchased cotton garments at least every six months and one-third at least once a month, it was a topic they could all relate to.
News16 Jul 2014Miller Weldmaster has added the Automated Edge Seamer 1900 (AES1900) to its line of high-performance, production-enhancing automated machine models. The new AES is designed for banner manufacturing, aiming to make it timely, efficient and hassle-free.
RevoLaze has announced plans to expand its ‘Laser Technology Center’ in Cleaveland, Ohio, US, this year. The centre will house RevoLaze’s Linear Processing machine with 5,000 watts of total laser power, as well as a new delivery system for finished garments.
