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News27 Jan 2014Hexcel is to showcase how innovations in resin matrix development and weaving technologies are transforming composite structures in a number of industrial markets at ISPO Munich 2014.
News27 Jan 2014Toray Industries is to enhance its production facility for carbon fibre Torayca prepreg at its US subsidiary Toray Composites America (TCA).
Pakistan’s textile industry is estimated to secure over $1 billion worth of orders from the recently concluded Heimtextil exhibition in Germany, the Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) has predicted.
News27 Jan 2014Prices for many types of yarn were again adjusted lower in China last week. However, the discounting of prices had little impact on the pace of sales, with most buyers already closed for the Spring Festival. Many mills are thought to view the business outlook with some trepidation, with large stocks and indebtedness expected to weigh heavily on the industry in the months ahead.
Messe Frankfurt’s Techtextil brand of technical textiles and nonwovens events made its first foray into the Middle Eastern market last week, with a pavilion and symposium at the Intersec trade fair in Dubai. Based on the success of the event, organisers said they will return next year.
Profile24 Jan 2014A massive expansion at DBL Group, in Bangladesh, will double textile-finishing capacity. The project will see the commissioning of three Monforts Montex 8000 stenters this year, to complement a Montex 6500 installed in 2012.
News24 Jan 2014International cotton prices have this week reached their highest levels since the beginning of the season in August 2013, before easing slightly. Renewed speculative interest in buying New York cotton futures, on the back of strong US export sales and diminished concern over the potential for Chinese stocks to weigh on the market in the near term, has pushed prices higher during the past couple of months. However, as the week progressed some speculators, reacting to technical signals that the futures market had moved into over-bought territory, began to liquidate ‘long’ positions and lock in profits. Dips in the market were fairly well supported by mills fixing prices against previous ‘on call’ purchases (a process we explained in more detail last week).
Profile23 Jan 2014The HAS Group, one of Turkey’s leading textile machinery manufacturers, has experienced turnover and capacity growth in the last 12 months and it has benefitted significantly from pursuing the need to develop greener, leaner technologies.
News23 Jan 2014Sinopec Yizheng Chemical Fibre Co Ltd, one of China's leading manufacturers of polyester, has said that it expects company losses to widen for its 2013 accounts as subdued global demand for polyester products pushed prices down sharply.
