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News14 Oct 2013The fourth year of The Campaign for Wool’s UK Wool Week (October 14-20) has kicked off in style with the second edition of the Wool School initiative. UK university fashion students have once again teamed up with retailers and designers to create 15 jumper designs inspired by the knitwear traditions of the British Isles.
Profile14 Oct 2013Craig Whyte, the founder of Cape Town-based ArtLab, can look back on a long career in digital imaging. He introduced the industry to the South Africa way back in 1983 – with Ciba-copy camera processors, the precursors of today's digital copying machines.
News14 Oct 2013Prices for many types of polyester and viscose spun yarn presented a softer appearance in China last week. Reports from the Qianqing Raw Materials Market indicated that trading volumes remained low.
News14 Oct 2013Polyester filament yarn producers in Shengze (a polyester production and trading hub in Jiangsu province) tended to maintain their offering prices last week, despite the rather depressed business climate. Many remained hopeful that a seasonal upturn in trading was still imminent. Nonetheless, some discounting of prices from list rates was evident against serious enquiries.
France’s top prize for textile innovation – the Prix International Théophile Legrand de l’Innovation Textile – has gone to science entrepreneur Coralie Marchand, a doctor of textile mechanics at Laboratoire de Physique et Mécanique Textiles (LPMT), Université de Haute Alsace in Mulhouse, and at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Sud-Alsace (ENSISA).
News11 Oct 2013Undesirable electrostatic discharges on garments can be a nuisance and in some cases may be hazardous, but there are ways to evaluate and reduce these effects, says SGS Global Softlines, a leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company.
News11 Oct 2013The International Cotton Advisory Committee revised downward its world consumption estimate for 2013/14, in its October review of its global supply and demand figures. The Committee expects that mill use will be about on a par with last season, with declines in China offset by increases in countries like India, Pakistan and Turkey.
News11 Oct 2013Having moved into the upper band of their long-established range, a sharp sell-off of New York cotton futures was witnessed on October 7, with the market declining in heavy trading by around 300 cent points in one session. However, as we suggested might prove the case, a drop in December 2013 futures below 85.00 US cents per lb has seemed to stimulate mill purchasing and downward momentum in futures has since dissipated.
News11 Oct 2013During the 2013/14 season, world cotton production is projected at 25.5 million tonnes, the lowest in four seasons, but world cotton mill use is expected to remain around 23.5 million tonnes with consumption shifting from China to other countries, notably India, Pakistan and Turkey.
