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News19 Oct 2015Textile inspection equipment company Fibrescan Ltd, is presenting two of its latest camera systems for the online inspection of fabrics at ITMA.
News19 Oct 2015The last time ITMA was held in Milan in 1995, Shima Seiki launched the world’s first WholeGarment knitting machine. Capable of producing a complete garment with no seams, it was revolutionary technology proclaimed ‘The Magic of the Orient’ by the industry press.
The space-dyeing process for carpet yarn is a growing trend in the manufacturing of tufted or woven carpets. With long experience in this area, Superba (now part of Van de Wiele Group), exhibiting at ITMA in Hall 4 at Stand B102, is showing its latest dyeing machine, MCD/3.
News19 Oct 2015Constant development and product improvement to promote environmental protection, occupational safety and user-friendliness, is the goal of Albert Rose Chemicals (ARC), which manufactures chemical products for textile printing screen production and commission engravers worldwide.
News19 Oct 2015c-tex is launching c-tex colour, its online colour monitoring technology at ITMA. Step changes in price and performance of sensing technology, coupled with constant evolution in computing performance has enabled c-tex to offer c-tex colour at an attractive price and capability.
News19 Oct 2015Will your apparel and design fabrics fade prematurely due to sunlight? Are your industrial fabrics durable enough to last outdoors? Do your customers require your products to meet lightfastness standards, and will they pass? Q-Lab urges manufacturers not to guess when they can test.
Global cotton prices still failed to establish a clear direction last week. Polyester values showed signs of recovery in China despite the weakened feedstock markets. Nylon and acrylic were under renewed pressure although raw material prices nudged up. Viscose continued to rise amid robust demand and low inventories. China cotton yarn price quotations dropped in face of fierce competition from imported products. Fabric sales were flat in the traditional high trading season.
News19 Oct 2015Kimberly-Clark Corporation has been honoured for the sixth time with a SmartWay Excellence Award from the US Environmental Protection Agency for working with transportation providers to move goods in the cleanest, most energy-efficient way possible, while reducing the impact of carbon pollution.
