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News25 Sept 2013NatureWorks has awarded Jacobs Engineering the front-end engineering design contract for the company’s next world-scale Ingeo production plant in Southeast Asia.
Toray Advanced Materials Korea has reportedly won the bidding war to acquire Woongjin Chemical, beating rivals including LG Group and GS Energy. The company, which is a subsidiary of Japan’s Toray Group, proposed 430 billion won (US$397m), according to the Korea Economic Daily.
CECEP Costin New Materials Group said it will refine its marketing strategy for its thermal resistant filtration materials during the second half of 2013 to take advantage of the increased market demand in China, aided by favourable policies.
The price outlook for Indian woven cotton fabric over the next couple of months would appear steady to slightly easier. A record cotton crop should start to come available to the market in November and December, influencing a drop in raw material replacement costs. Some WTiN sources also suggest that a slower demand for cotton yarn from China could also keep local yarn prices down.
News24 Sept 2013A recovery in the rupee’s standing against the US dollar during the past couple of weeks, along with a (not unrelated) fall in local cotton and cotton yarn values, influenced a steady to slightly softer trend in woven cotton fabric prices during September.
Insight24 Sept 2013Knitwear manufacturing is a complex as well as international business, so the development of detailed global, regional and national standards covering its production processes can be immensely helpful. They act as a transparent blueprint for good practice, having been developed by industry, regulatory and academic experts.
According to the results of a survey conducted around the middle of September by the China National Cotton Reserves Corporation (CNCRC) the country’s cotton production during the 2013/14 season will total 7.09 million tonnes (down 6.9% from last season), a figure that closely mirrors estimates put forward by many international traders and western forecasting agencies.
News24 Sept 2013The chairman of the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO), Bill Jasper, has urged the US Senate to pass the bipartisan H.R. 2708 – US Job Creation and Manufacturing Competitiveness Act, or the Miscellaneous Tariff bill (MTB), which was introduced by the House Ways and Means Committee in July this year.
News24 Sept 2013Dürkopp Adler, the industrial sewing machine and conveyor systems manufacturer, is to highlight its award-winning sleeve setting workstation 650, with patented software for self-learning grading, at CISMA (China International Sewing Machinery & Accessories Show) 2013 in Shanghai from September 25-28, 2013.
News24 Sept 2013The European Commission has adopted a report based on the results of three assessment studies carried out to investigate the possible need for new labelling requirements for textile and leather products, as well as allergenic substances in textile finished products.
