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Lenzing is to cut 600 jobs with the implementation of a ‘massive, far-reaching cost optimisation programme’ to save €120m per year until 2015. This expands on the ExcelLenz cost-saving programme which was started at the beginning of the year.
Adidas has launched its lightest ever football kits for the 2014 Fifa World Cup teams of Argentina, Colombia, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Russia and Spain.
China is to relax its one-child population policy, allowing couples to have two children if one of them is an only child, reported official state media today, citing a decision issued by the Communist Party of China (CPC).
A court has granted in part and denied in part a petition for review of a decision of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granting an application for conditional registration of two pesticides, AGS-20 and AGS-20 U, which HeiQ Materials sought to apply to manufactured textiles such as clothing, blankets, and carpet.
News8 Nov 2013Swiss embroidery specialist Forster Rohner Textile Innovation has developed an industrial production process to integrate active lighting into fabrics, without compromising textile properties like washability, drape and haptics.
Fitesa is investing $50m its existing facility in Greenville County, South Carolina, to significantly increase production capacity for its spunmelt nonwoven hygiene products. The expansion is expected to generate 32 new jobs and is scheduled for completion by November 2014.
News7 Nov 2013Lenzing is presenting its cellulose fibre Tencel for workwear applications that can be industrially laundered at the A+A show in Germany this week. The company says that in an industry generally dominated by polyester and cotton fibres, Tencel can provide a more sustainable alternative.
News7 Nov 2013Kang Na Hsuing Enterprise (KNH) is a Taiwan-based nonwoven producer with four factories in Taiwan, one in Shanghai and one in Chengdu, China, which was established last year. The company produces nonwovens using a range of technologies, “basically everything except spunbond,” said assistant vice president Kevin Chen, for hygiene, personal care, industrial filtration, wastewater treatment and medical applications.
DSM Dyneema, the producer of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fibre branded as Dyneema, has taken immediate corrective action against infringement of its intellectual property before and during the A+A show in Düsseldorf, Germany.
The textiles, nonwovens and technical textiles industries were highlighted at the annual assembly of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry (DG Enterprise) held earlier today. The organisation has a mission to promote a ‘growth-friendly framework for European enterprises’ and is central to the Europe 2020 agenda of ‘smart, sustainable and inclusive growth’.
