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Insight21 Feb 2018Germany’s textile industry with its hybrid and highly fragmented value chain is seen as both a future key supplier and an adopter of digital operations technologies and Industry 4.0 solutions
Insight21 Feb 2018Millennials are more aware of the textile industry’s environmental and social shortcomings than older generations, according to a new study from Oeko-Tex Association
Berry Global, Inc has announced that it is investing in a proprietary Spinlace asset to provide an incremental 17,000 metric tons of annual capacity serving the North American market.
Prices19 Feb 2018China is currently enjoying its own New Year holiday, welcoming in the Year of the Dog. Recorded fibre and yarn prices remained stable relative to the week before in terms of yuan but dropped in terms of dollar due to the appreciation of the US dollar against the yuan week-on-week. In China, latest figures provided by China’s National Bureau of Statistics show YTD chemical fibre production dropped marginally by 0.5% year-on-year in 2017 up to December, while yarn production increased marginally by 0.3% year-on-year. Figures provided by the United States Department of Agriculture show Brazil’s projected cotton exports were revised upwards for this market year in January.Total supply and domestic production remained stable relative to projections made in the previous month. Figures provided by the USDA in January also show that African cotton production is expected to obtain an expanding surplus this market year, thanks to a larger increase in production relative to the increase in cotton consumption driven mostly by production activities in Egypt.
