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News27 Sept 2013The Indonesian textile industry is being targeted by Italian machinery suppliers, who are aiming to further their sales growth to the country over the next few years noting that the south-east Asian nation's textile industry is set to update much of its plants.
News27 Sept 2013In order to improve transparency and accelerate improvements in the Cambodian garment industry, the International Labour Organization has stated that it will return to publicly disclosing individual factory information collected in its Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) assessment reports.
News27 Sept 2013New York futures have continued to edge higher during the past week. The nearby tightness of supply globally, ahead of the main harvest period in the Northern Hemisphere, may have been a supportive factor. However, in general, the momentum in the futures market has been built on very little fresh significant news and daily trading volumes remained thin.
Fitesa, Braskem and NatureWorks have developed a new performance nonwoven for the hygiene and personal care markets composed of two bio-based polymers in a sheath-core, bicomponent configuration. The sheath is made of Braskem’s I’m Green 100% biobased polyethylene while the core is made of NatureWorks’ 100% biobased Ingeo polylactide. The result is said to be a nonwoven that is soft thanks to its bioPE outer sheath yet strong and robust thanks to the Ingeo core.
News26 Sept 2013Applied DNA Sciences, a provider of DNA-based anti-counterfeiting technology and product authentication solutions, will discuss the intricacies of its innovative technology at the upcoming 72nd Plenary Session of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) in Cartagena, Colombia, on September 29, 2013.
Hopes are being raised on the domestic market that the need to replenish stocks in China and expectations of an improved textile business climate during the fourth quarter should stimulate sufficient demand to absorb the usual peak supply period, as spring shearing gathers momentum in Australia.
News26 Sept 2013It is widely known that synthetic fibres like polypropylene and polyester are inherently hydrophobic and non-hygroscopic, however, the textile sector has always tried to influence these respective properties through special treatments.
Huntsman Advanced Materials has expanded its long-standing distribution partnership with Antala to cover its entire formulated system range, including Araldite adhesives, tooling and composite materials as well as electrical insulation systems, in Iberia.
