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Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics – Autumn Edition 2014 (October 20-23) is to again feature Salon Europe, alongside six regional and country pavilions from Asia.
News4 Jul 2014Dominated by tepid demand, surging costs and a labour shortage, China’s cotton fabric sector struggled during the first five months of this year.
Karl Mayer has recently begun manufacturing in India, a market which it believes has great potential. India is currently the second most important sales region for its Warp Preparation Business Unit. In some sectors, such as direct beaming and sizing machines, Karl Mayer said it has a market share of more than 90%.
Weekly analysis of the Australian Wool Market by Chris Wilcox, Executive Director of the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers of Australia.
The Textile Institute’s collection of textile terms and definitions (TT&D) is now available digitally. The collection of industry terms is produced by a panel of experts, coordinated by a main Textile Terms and Definitions Committee and assured by The Textile Institute.
Insight3 Jul 2014In the textile industry more than 70% of all printed substrates are cellulosic fabrics. The most important printing method after pigment printing is that with reactive dyes and the consumption of reactive dyes continues to increase, since these dyes give brilliant prints of very good fastness on cellulosic fibres.
Technical3 Jul 2014Wet-processing engineering is one of the major streams in textile engineering and refers to textile-chemical processing, engineering and applied science. The other three streams in textile engineering are yarn-manufacturing engineering, fabric-manufacturing engineering and garment-manufacturing engineering.
Freudenberg & Co’s chair of the Board of Partners, Dr Wolfram Freudenberg, has retired at the age of 73. The announcement came at the Kommanditgesellschaft's General Meeting, where Martrin Wentzler (61) was elected as his successor. Mr Wentzler will be both the new chair of Freudenberg Kommanditgesellschaft's Board of Partners and of the Supervisory Board of Freudenberg SE.
Two days ahead of the Tour de France’s Grand Départ, the UK Fashion and Textile Association (UKFT) has teamed up with UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) and the Campaign for Wool (CFW) to host a showcase illustrating the diversity and creativity of contemporary Yorkshire textiles.
ITMA ASIA + CITME, now in its fourth edition, saw in excess of 100,000 visitors, a 7% increase on the 2012 event. Exhibitors commented that attendance from outside of China appeared to be growing, confirming that, while China remains the dominant textile industry force, there is also interest in the latest textile technology from a growing number of other countries, particularly in Asia.
Huntsman Textile Effects has extended its Lanaset range of dyes to include additional shades for woven and knitted polyamide (PA) fabrics. The new dyes will help textile mills meet rising demand for cost-effective PA fabrics with high light-fastness and wetfastness in a broad range of shades, according to Huntsman.
News3 Jul 2014According to China Customs, viscose staple fibre exports during May increased by 6.2% on previous month, to 29,216 tonnes. The figure soared 104.71% from the comparable statistic last year, registering a y-o-y growth for the third consecutive month.
Pakistan’s minister for the textile industry, Abbas Khan Afridi, has said his government’s proposed textile policy for 2014-2019 is designed to generate additional textile and clothing exports worth $3bn during the next two years.
World ending cotton stocks are expected to rise by 6% to 21.4 million tons in 2014/15, making the stock-to-use ratio 89%, due to higher ending stocks outside China and lower imports into the country, according to the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC). This would be the fifth consecutive season of increase in ending stocks after a 27% fall in 2009/10.
Global nonwovens associations EDANA and INDA announced today that the Renaissance Sao Paulo Hotel in Brazil will be the OUTLOOK Plus Latin America conference location. The conference will cover market, product and technology intelligence for hygiene, personal care and durable applications, and will take place from March 3-5, 2015.
NDC Infrared Engineering and Beta LaserMike, have joined to form NDC Technologies. The companies specialise in near infrared (NIR), nucleonic, optical, x-ray, laser, microwave, ultrasonic and process control technologies for non contacting measurement and control.
