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News11 Dec 2013Liberty London and Topman Oxford Circus, in collaboration with print specialists Yr Store, have opened pop-ups within their flagship UK stores offering customers the chance to create and print their own bespoke T-shirts using Epson SureColor dye-sub printers.
News11 Dec 2013Offers of polyester staple fibre and filament yarn into Turkey have continued to rule steady to slightly weaker during the past week. Although polyester intermediate replacement costs have increased during the past 10 days or so, extruders have been unable to reflect those increases in their CIF offering rates, owing to the depressed business climate.
The Volvo Car Group, Borgstena Group Sweden and Swerea IVF are working together on a new project called Lotex, which will develop more environmentally-sustainable processes to improve the lifespan and performance of textiles for car interiors.
News11 Dec 2013A slightly improved yarn business climate has been evident in Pakistan during the past week, with demand on the domestic market picking up modestly. Local weavers and knitters have tended to cover their yarn requirements more readily, perhaps perceiving that the scope for prices to fall much further may be limited in the short term. Most yarn buyers have been wedded to a hand-to-mouth purchasing strategy and have run raw material inventories down to very lean levels.
News11 Dec 2013Scientists from the Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim have, for the first time, developed a textile finish with both an antiviral and an antibacterial function, as part of a German Federation of Industrial Research Associations (AiF) project.
Traditionally, shoes for sports and recreation have been made from numerous different materials and individual components, all of them glued, heated or sewn. The top layer of knitted shoes, in contrast, consists of a single component, manufactured in fully-fashion for a perfect fit. Economically efficient manufacture and minimal wastage make this production method very attractive, according to Groz-Beckert.
News11 Dec 2013Yarn trading activity in India has continued in the same steady to sluggish vein witnessed for a number of weeks. Prices on the domestic market, expressed in rupees, have been maintained at the levels prevailing a week earlier. However, the rupee has continued to appreciate against the US dollar, again moving below Rs. 61 = US$1.00.
News11 Dec 2013The main alterations to the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) global supply and demand figures in December involve historical reductions to Indian consumption figures, reflecting adjustments made by official sources in that country. As a consequence, Washington’s beginning stock figures for both 2012/13 and 2013/14 were raised.
News10 Dec 2013Back as far as 2003, four African Franc Zone cotton producing nations (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali), introduced proposals to the Doha Round of trade negotiations aimed at tackling perceived inequities created by both domestic and export cotton subsidies in parts of the developed world. Complaints at the time focused on the 3-step competitiveness programme in the United States, which, it was claimed, was artificially depressing global cotton prices, by supporting cotton production in the US (back then, the largest cotton exporter in the world) and lowering its export prices.
