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Insight27 Jul 2015Adding value is often talked about in the Indian textiles industry. Failure to add value often means that Indian textile manufacturers don’t get decent returns. But a new initiative of the South India Imported Machine Knitters Association (SIIMKA) is set to change all that. The Tirupur knitwear cluster will get Rs 15.5 crore ($2.4m) worth of facilities for adding value to knitted fabrics, testing and training.
Sawgrass Industrial is to join JK Group, the company which includes the brands Kiian Digital and J-Teck3, to extend the group’s technology capabilities. As a division of the Sawgrass group, Sawgrass Industrial competitor in the high-end market of digital sublimation and water-based pigment inks with a wide portfolio of brands, including SubliM and M-Inks.
Insight24 Jul 2015Russia’s textile industry is bracing itself for another wave of competitive imports, following an agreement between the Russian and Indian governments to forge a free trade deal. This follows the agreement of a trade deal between Vietnam and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), of which Russia is the dominant member.
The Schneider group reported no major changes on the cashmere market, with prices remaining stable. This time of year is usually quiet for sales, as summer holidays are approaching and most European mills will stop or reduce production, the group said.
Insight23 Jul 2015Delegates at the WTiN South America Digital Textile Conference yesterday were among the first to hear of a new line of digital textile pigment inks from DuPont, for high-productivity roll-to-roll applications. The inks come under a new ‘DuPont Xite’ brand, complementing the company’s long established DuPont Artistri ranges.
Insight23 Jul 2015In an interview with Duncan Ferguson, director for professional graphics, Epson, at FESPA 2015, WTiN Insight learnt that there was more to come from the Epson team in the area of dye sublimation solutions in 2015. Now, Epson has announced not one but two new dye sublimation printers, the SC-F7200 and SC-F6200.
Insight23 Jul 2015Schoeller’s range for summer 2017, labelled Lifestyle Collection, has been developed with nature in mind. Natural fibres and the company's award-winning corkshell technology are the main themes, while the interplay of matte and wet-look sheen, voluminous lightweights and functional fabrics influenced by fashions in equestrian sports set further focal points.
Insight22 Jul 2015Pakistan textile manufacturers have expressed disappointment with the third budget of the centre-right Pakistan Muslim League (N) government, branding it “unfair, regressive and routine” when the industry needed confidence boosting, fair, innovative and a progressive reforms.
Insight22 Jul 2015The textile industry is on the long road to cleaning up its act after being revealed as one of the biggest polluting industries, especially of water, due to its reliance on chemicals and resource-costly processes. Movements like Greenpeace’s Detox, as well as the Oeko-Tex 100 Standard and REACH regulations are working to enforce sustainability within every step of the textile production process and the whole industry – from associations to fibre producers and textile manufacturers – seems to be rallying behind this initiative.
