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News28 May 2014Global fashion brands and retailers agreed this week to accommodate a minimum wage increase for Cambodian workers. Cambodian garment unions are fighting to increase the minimum wage from US$100 to US$160 per month.
News28 May 2014Ahlstrom has today inaugurated a new wallcovering substrates production line in Binzhou, China. The €40m investment is intended to supply high-end wallcovering products for the growing Chinese market.
Continued strong demand, combined with a limited quantity of mohair forced buyers to compete strongly for the fibre on offer.
According to China Customs, polyester filament yarn exports during April reached 146,986 tonnes, 8.69% higher than the previous month. The figure surged 31.62% on the same period in 2013, the eighth consecutive month to register a y-o-y growth of above 28%.
Rieter held a five-day forum in Taiwan for spinning industry entrepreneurs. The forum attracted nearly 40 participants from the China Cotton Textile Association, top Chinese spinning mills, the Taiwan Textile Federation, the Taiwan Spinners’ Association and Taiwanese spinning mills.
News27 May 2014According to China Customs, wool imports during April increased 14.93% on March, rising to 30,204 tonnes. However, the figure was still 25.78% lower than the same month last year, displaying a contraction for the sixth consecutive month since November 2013.
Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) held its 2014 National Merino Challenge (NMC) this weekend in Melbourne, Australia, attracting more than 80 students from 13 schools, colleges, universities and Technical and Further Education institutions (TAFEs).
News27 May 2014The new Textile Technology Business Center (TTBC) in Bangladesh has been officially inaugurated by Lilianne Ploumen, Honorable Minister for Trade and Development Cooperation of the Netherlands yesterday, during a ceremony at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Dhaka. The centre is the first of its kind in Bangladesh and aims to assist the textile industry in adopting resource efficiency measures including waste water and ground water management systems.
A project that will carry out the first clothing physiology experiments in a weightless environment will start tomorrow. The German ESA astronaut Dr Alexander Gerst will take off from the cosmodrome in Baikonur in Kazakhstan, bound for the International Space Station.
