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The South India Textile Research Association (SITRA), which is the Centre of Excellence for Medical Textiles, is to host Meditex 2014, an exhibition and conference for medical textiles at SITRA CEO Expo Hall, Coimbatore, from February 28 – March 2.
SCA announced it was launching its Tena brand of adult incontinence products and its Libero brand of baby diapers in India last year.
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has started its first assessment of the biocide dinotefuran under new EU regulations.
News2 Jan 2014According to China Customs, cotton imports during November totalled 173,100 tonnes, increasing 22.59% from the previous month. This is the first time since August that imports have risen. However, this figure is still down 42.98% compared to the same month of last year.
Shri Puneet Kumar has been appointed Secretary General of India’s Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC). He is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering and postgraduate in Thermal Engineering from IIT, Delhi. After joining the Indian Administrative Service, he has worked in number of capacities in the Revenue Department, Co-operation Department (as MD of K.S. CARD Branch and Kerala Marketfed etc.), Technical Education Department, Excise Department and Department of Agriculture; all divisions of the Government of Kerala.
News23 Dec 2013The European Man-made Fibres Association (CIRFS) has lodged a complaint with the European Commission alleging that imports of polyester staple fibres (PSF) originating in the People’s Republic of China, India and Vietnam are being subsidised and are thereby ‘causing material injury to the European Union’s industry.’
News23 Dec 2013Carey Hobbs, owner of Hobbs Bonded Fibers the US-based manufacturer of natural and synthetic insulations since 1962, has partnered with Doug Hoschek, the thought-leader of synthetic fibrefill and the co-inventor of Polarfleece, to develop and produce a patent pending, 100% wool, nonwoven.
News23 Dec 2013Following a three-year collaboration between The Lincoln Motor Company; sustainable solutions pioneer Weyerhaeuser; and auto parts supplier Johnson Controls; the 2014 Lincoln MKX model will feature new tree-based innovations.
Insight23 Dec 2013Each quarter, WTiN attempts to compare industrial electricity rates across a range of Asian textile producing nations, the results of which are displayed in the accompanying table. Where multiple tariffs apply within an individual country, we have selected rates from a key textile producing region. Where necessary, we have converted the rates into US dollar terms for sake of comparison. As a consequence, some of the month-to-month fluctuations may be attributable to exchange rate movements, rather than a change in the underlying tariff. Moreover, it should be borne in mind that where load-shedding is prevalent, the rates will not reflect precisely the cost of electricity to mills relying on on-site power generation for at least a portion of the day.
News23 Dec 2013In northern China, cotton yarn producers struggled to maintain cash flow, as more and more fabric producers idled capacity in an attempt to control a build up of unsold inventories. Reports were again forthcoming of bankruptcies within the domestic cotton textile supply chain, prompting many sellers of yarn to demand payment in cash, rather than by Letter of Credit.
As we noted last week, the limited volume remaining uncommitted from this season’s US crop has emerged as the dominant influence on price sentiment during the past few weeks. The New York futures market is still used as a global pricing benchmark, but at times is dominated by US issues, with only US crop deliverable against that contract. Discussions continue about the possibility of introducing a “world contract”, against which a wider range of growths would be deliverable.
News23 Dec 2013New York futures continued to trade at the firmer levels witnessed the previous week, influenced primarily by the tight US supply and demand situation that has emerged following active export sales (from a relatively small crop) during the past couple of months. US farmers hedging recent new crop sales lent some strength to the market. Renewed speculative buying was also in evidence.
