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News22 Jun 2014The viscose staple fibre market continued its weak trend this week in China, as new order placements were rare among the main producers. T
News22 Jun 2014Supported by raw material replacement costs, polyamide values in China renewed unchanged this week. The key product, FDY 70den/24F, was traded at 22,250 yuan per tonne.
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News20 Jun 2014Kimberly-Clark has entered the house wrap business with its new Block-It House Wrap. The product is designed to provide a tough liquid barrier and additional breathability to ensure a dry building structure. The patented technology is channels liquid away from the wall assembly and to the ground.
News20 Jun 2014PT Kao Indonesia, part of the Kao Corporation group, has completed construction of a second plant at Karawang International Industrial City (KIIC) in West Java. The new plant is the company’s first in Indonesia to produce Merries baby diapers.
Insight19 Jun 2014The Australian Wool Exchange’s (AWEX) Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) fell by 8 cents on the previous week’s sale (June 12), in another lacklustre market with the smallest offering so far this season. The EMI closed at 1,021 Australian cents per kilo clean on Thursday June 19. In US dollar terms, the EMI fell by 5 cents to 960 US cents per kilo.
INDA, the US-based nonwovens association, has announced a new date and location for its fifth annual Research, Innovation and Science for Engineered Fabrics (RISE) conference. The conference will be held from February 9-12, 2015, at Miami’s Downtown Hilton in Miami, Florida.
News19 Jun 2014Orders for Italian textile machinery from abroad were down by 10% at the start of this year, but domestic orders have increased by 10%, said Raffaella Carabelli, president of the Association of Textile Machinery Manufacturers, at the ACIMIT and ICE press conference.
Itema has sold 72 of its A9500 airjet weaving machines to Zhejiang Haoxin Textile Co Ltd of Zhejiang Province, China. The A9500 is a high performance machine aimed at the mass production of quality woven fabrics. The positioning of the first frame is closer to the reed, allowing for a shorter stroke at higher speeds. Longer weft insertion provides less tension on weft yarns, as a means of increasing efficiency.
