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News28 Aug 2013Representatives from the Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF) and Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) have signed a long-term cooperation agreement in Paris, France, to underscore their goal to continue to improve the living conditions of smallholder farmers in developing regions through sustainable cotton production.
News28 Aug 2013Indian domestic cotton yarn prices continued to strengthen last week. Spinners generally raised their offering rates in an attempt to pass recent rises in local cotton prices on to their customers. However, rises in yarn quotations were typically not commensurate with movements in the cotton market up to August 21.
News28 Aug 2013Following the signing of a collective labour agreement between the Textile, Knitting and Clothing Industry Workers 'Union of Turkey (TEKSIF) and the Turkish Textile Industry Employers' Association the strike of over 12,000 textile workers in Turkey has come to an end.
Insight28 Aug 2013Veterinarian Dr Jim Watts believes that genetic selection can play a large and potentially lucrative role in producing wools of rare and unparalled quality. Watts argues that this development can offer significant textile market opportunities, particularly in the face of increased awareness from retailers and consumers of animal welfare issues and ethical production.
In China, bamboo has been a rich natural resource, used in agriculture, the paper-industry, furniture industry, architecture and handicrafts for thousands of years. It has also been known as green gold ore. Only in the last decade, however, has bamboo been used for the production of textile fibres.
News28 Aug 2013Rieter, a leading supplier of textile machinery and components used in short staple fibre spinning, has developed the new R 35 semi-automated rotor spinning machine – which is said to be a smart and economical solution created to increase productivity.
News27 Aug 2013The Teijin Group, one of the world's leading high-performance fibre suppliers, has said it will provide uniforms made from its recycled polyester ECO CIRCLE FIBERS for staff at the athletes’ village of the 12th National Games of the People's Republic of China, the largest national sporting event in the country.
Technical27 Aug 2013In recent years we have been exploring the deposition of silicon (photovoltaic) cells directly onto standard polyester fabrics. This quest has been instigated through the realisation that amorphous/nanocrystalline films of silicon can be successfully deposited at a temperature as low as 200°C (Shirai et al, 1999, Löffler et al, 2006), a temperature well below the melt temperature of polyester fabrics (250-260°C), whereas the deposition of most other types of solar cell requires temperatures of at least 400°C.
Insight27 Aug 2013Recent strength in polyester feedstock prices in China ebbed last week in sympathy with developments on the crude oil market. The change in direction was readily reflected in polyester staple fibre prices, but filament values were better maintained.
