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Insight9 Aug 2017Cut and slash protection tops US shopping list.
Insight9 Aug 2017According to the VDMA, more than 100 Colombian textile manufacturers used the symposia in Bogotá und Medellín as an opportunity to get first-hand experience regarding German textile machinery technology.
Insight9 Aug 2017The nature of textiles has transformed dramatically over the past twenty years, so much so its very definition has expanded to include materials treated in a flexible manner.
With Asia-Pacific continuing to be the hub of global industrial growth and technological innovation, the region’s nonwovens sector has been making the most of these benefits, increasing both output and quality.
Prices7 Aug 2017The inability of China’s Central Bank to net inject cash into its market has created a cautious sentiment, which could have contributed to the falling price of staple fibres and yarns. The tightened monetary policy may limit funding that may have fueled demand. Staple fibre and yarn prices dropped in terms of yuan week-on-week. Last week, China announced that it reduced the cost of energy by 100 billion yuan through reforms and fee cancellations. The reforms give the private sector a greater role in determining the price and thus allocation of energy. Previous arrangements have caused energy costs to be high as a result of state-run firms using their monopoly power to maximize their profits. By introducing private-sector competition into the industry, power could be allocated to consumers more efficiently, benefiting the textile industry as it gains access to cheaper energy. In Karachi, strong demand pushes up cotton prices week-on-week, despite negative sentiment coming from the export industry, due to fears of a continuous fall in exports. In India, the flooding in Gujarat’s key cotton-producing areas and the moisture of cotton have led to higher price levels, due to disruption of supply in the short-term, as well as expectations of pest attacks in the long-term.
Prices7 Aug 2017After the impact of flash floods in Gujarat, India’s cotton prices have inched up to INR42,300 per candy, a 0.5% increase week-on-week by 2 August relative to the week before, due to a considerable loss of sown cotton in the floods.
Insight4 Aug 2017The announcement of the relaunch Google’s Glass EE gets the company back in the augmented reality game it kick-started, for all intents and purposes, back in 2013. This time though, the AR headset finds itself in a battle of the (enterprise) niches. Major upgrades between the explorer and the enterprise edition of Google’s augmented reality glasses include a modular structure, a better camera (from 5 megapixels to 8), extended battery life, faster Wi-Fi and processor, and a new red light that turns on when recording video. Arguably, there’s not that many differences between the first iteration of Glass some 4 years ago and the new headset. In reality, and most critically, it’s not so much that Glass EE is a new device, it’s that the rules of the augmented reality game are new.
