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Insight11 Jun 2015The African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA), which allows sub Saharan African countries duty-free access to particular US markets is due to expire on 30 September 2015, but active steps are being taken to renew it and an extension act is currently before US law makers.
Cleantech Solutions International, Inc., manufacturer of dyeing and finishing machines, is showcasing its line of newly developed air-fluid, dual-use dyeing machines at ShanghaiTex, which use both air flow and fluid flow in the dyeing process.
Intelligence10 Jun 2015The Indian digital textile market has been moving at a fast pace in line with the overriding trend of the economy over the last 5 years. WTiN Market tracker data has highlighted this economy as not only having some of the highest growth rates in the digital textile market but also as being one of the largest, despite a relative slow start. India, with its huge textile industry, was an obvious opportunity for the quickly growing digital textile market but due to the sheer scale of its production needs digital textile had a less than auspicious start when compared to European markets. But more recently, the gradual increase in machine speeds and reducing costs of ink have certainly helped bring digital textile printing to the Indian market. The increasingly strict labour laws alongside stricter pollution and environmental controls in India have helped drive the market at a faster pace than would have been seen organically.
Insight9 Jun 2015Shipments in most textile machinery segments experienced declines in 2014. Deliveries of new short-staple spindles fell by 15% from 2013 to 2014. Shipped long-staple spindles and open-end rotors increased by 70% and 2.6% respectively while the number of shipped draw-texturing spindles grew by close to 12%.
Insight8 Jun 2015Following the Rana Plaza factory collapse in April 2013 in Bangladesh, the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) has made numerous calls for companies and retailers sourcing from this factory to pay into a fund intended to support the families of the workers who died during the incident and those who suffered injuries. The fund was intended to compensate for loss of income and medical care of those affected.
Spanish textile-chemical producer Polysistec has given WTiN.com more details of its recently announced ‘new complete process’ for polyamide preparation and dyeing, which it says can substantially reduce common problems such as unlevelness, differences of affinity, lack of fastness, a long dyeing process and high water consumption.
Insight8 Jun 2015Strong demand and a persistently weak rand drove wool prices to a record high and the Cape Wools Merino Indicator gained 4.7% to close at R140.00 per kilo clean. This is 25.4% higher compared to the opening sale of this season and up 27.9% compared to the corresponding sale of the previous season. On the Australian market, the indicator increased with 5.0%. The Cape Wools All-Wool Indicator gained 4.6%.
