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News19 Oct 2015The traditional rectangular spin finish pump design has long since become uneconomic to market for large PET/PA6 filament projects. These designs contain many components that are time consuming and consequently expensive to manufacture, according to Slack & Parr.
Last week the Australian wool market followed a similar pattern as the previous week, as the Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX) Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) dipped in local currency terms, but remained stable in US dollar terms, as the Aussie dollar strengthened again.
Intelligence16 Oct 2015Italy continues to hold its own at the forefront of digital textile printing and did so through early 2015 despite experiencing a number of years of extremely high growth and being an already well-established industry. While the first half of the year saw the numbers of new installations slow compared to both previous years and global averages, 50 new machines where still installed over the half. This helped push the output volume to over 62million sqm for the half, producing a like for like growth rate of 5%. This increase, while small, helped Italy remain the second most important market for digital textile printing globally, behind China and ahead of competing local markets such as Turkey and Spain, which continue to see higher growth.
Insight16 Oct 2015The Indian technical textile industry is hoping it will increase exports and raise production quality as a result of a private sector-led cooperation agreement with the US. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) are driving the process which will involve the development and dissemination of standards for these products.
News16 Oct 2015Appleton based printed table cloth specialists, Harberson Ltd has enjoyed a long-standing relationship with the corporate linens industry, with the business transforming itself from simple supplier to now offering bespoke dye-sublimation printing of tablecloths and linen for the exhibition industry due to its investment in a Mimaki TS34-1800A.
