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Intelligence18 Sept 2017There is an increasing demand for smart textiles in both the consumer and research spaces, from industries such as medical, healthcare, sport, fashion, entertainment, military and protection. Electrically conductive fibres are key components in smart and interactive textiles. This report focuses on conductive textile materials and will discuss various approaches to produce electrically conductive textiles for smart textiles needs, including metallised textiles, conductive polymer-based textiles and nanocarbon based conductive textiles. Moreover, some recent smart textiles developments using the above mentioned technologies, in applications from healthcare and safety to sport and fitness together with some of the commercial manufacturers of conductive textiles are introduced.
The value of the yuan dropped 1.12% week-on-week against the dollar. Despite this, Chinese staple fibre and yarn prices moved positively this Friday relative to the week before. Due to the positive year-on-year production figures for yarn and cloth in China, the outlook looks positive this year relative to the year before. The USDA’s forecasts in August for 2017/18 show expected total supply of cotton in India increased relative to expectations made in July, due to higher initial reserves than previously estimated. This is while expected demand for cotton dropped due to underperformance in India’s domestic market.
Insight18 Sept 2017According to figures provided by the USDA, expected cotton supply in India went up 0.6% month-on-month to 42.89 million 480lb bales, from 40.64 million 480lb bales the year before, due to an upward revision of initial reserves offsetting a drop in expected imports.
Insight14 Sept 2017Following several significant M&R announcements in 2017, the traditional screen printing machine manufacturer has confirmed the introduction of the Novus Textura 1800 digital printer to its expanding range of products – a result of M&R Companies’ acquisition of the digital printing equipment business, Novus Imaging, earlier in the year.
