Read
Explore ideas, evidence and developments across the textile value chain.
Explore the archive
23,367 articles · latest first · 18,673–18,696
News26 Nov 2014Piave Maitex hailed Designer of the Year 2015
Italian stretch fabrics company Piave Maitex has been voted designer of the year 2015 in the intimates category by Interfilière Paris. The company has been present at Interfilière since the show’s launch and will be celebrated at the 2015 edition from January 24-26.
Report on the flame retardant fabric market published
A market intelligence report looking at the global and Chinese flame retardant fabric industry, in 2014, has been released by Deep Research Reports, and is available online.
News26 Nov 2014Untreated yak’s wool sourced for apparel
Untreated yak's wool, sourced directly from nomadic herders in Tibet, has been used by apparel company Citizen Cashmere for their Lhasa Hoodie garment.
Intertextile Shanghai breaks records
October’s Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics – Autumn Edition broke all records in what doubled as a celebration of the fair’s 20th anniversary, say organisers Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd.
Two new Théophile Legrand textile innovation awards for 2015
For its sixth edition, the Théophile Legrand International Textile Innovation Award is amending its regulations, establishing two new categories with two different prizes for the same amount of €8,000.
News26 Nov 2014Bangladesh group celebrates dyeing and finishing partnership
Integrated knit-garments manufacturer DBL Group, of Bangladesh, has gone live with its latest dyeing-and-finishing investment, extending a partnership of nearly 15 years with Swiss machinery supplier Santex.
Review26 Nov 2014Itema stages open house technology show in Mexico
Itema, manufacturer of advanced weaving machines, is showcasing its innovations at a two-day Open House in Puebla, Mexico. The Itema Open House Mexico spotlights the Company’s latest weaving technology advancements with a focus on the rapier R9500 and airjet A9500 models.
QSAR for dyes
REACH&Colours Italia and Milano Chemometrics and QSAR Research Group (University of Milano-Bicocca) have partnered to produce new software designed to predict specific toxicological and environmental properties of dyes, on the basis of a Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) approach.
Kenya aims at textile industry expansion
Kenya is seeking a major expansion of its textile and apparel sector, according to a report by Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, which quotes the Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Industrialization and Enterprise Development, Dr Wilson Zonga, as stating that the Ministry is working to attract some of the largest textile industries to set up base there.
Work ‘N Wear winners unite fashion and function
Invista’s Cordura brand has announced the top three winners of the second phase of its Work ‘N Mode contest. The brand brought its Fashion X Function campaign to Paris with the Work ‘N Mode contest for the students of the L’Atelier Chardon Savard.
News25 Nov 2014New website promotes merino from farm to fashion
The Woolmark Company has launched an e-commerce marketplace on its consumer-facing website, merino.com, making merino wool products more accessible for consumers worldwide.
Executive Market Report - 24th November 2014
A detailed review of movements in fibre, yarn and fabric prices from the previous week, along with changes in production costs.
Student competition looks for ‘hot technology’ in textiles
Textiles students are being invited to produce a winter outerwear collection featuring technology, in the annual design competition run by the American Association of Textile Chemists & Colorists (AATCC).
African trade boost
Kenyan knitwear exporters may be the biggest knitting sector winners from a comprehensive trade deal struck between the European Union (EU) and the East African Community (EAC). It should boost trade between the two regions - including of yarns and knitted or crocheted clothing and fabrics. Trade between the EU and East Africa’s economic hub, Kenya may especially prosper, as its exporters currently pay significant duties on its knitwear exports to Europe, while poorer EAC countries - Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda - do not, under the EU’s ‘everything but arms’ arrangement for the world’s least developed countries.
NCC welcomes new chair of House Republican Committee on Agriculture
Rep Conaway (R-TX) has been selected by the House Republican Conference to chair the House Committee on Agriculture in the 114th Congress beginning in January 2015, the National Cotton Council has reported. The announcement of the chairman-elect was made this week following House organisational meetings and chairmen elections.
Freudenberg acquires MWV’s air purification business
Freudenberg Filtration Technologies has acquired MeadWestvaco (MWV) Corp’s industrial activated carbon corrosion protection business.
News24 Nov 2014Compensation agreement reached at Tazreen fire second anniversary
An agreement has been reached between IndustriALL Global Union, the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) and C&A on a system for delivering compensation to the victims of the Tazreen Fashions factory tragedy of November 24, 2012, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Workers became trapped in the clothing factory as a fire broke out which killed 120 of them and injuring a further 300.
News24 Nov 2014Dyneema leads the winners at ITMA Future Materials Awards
DSM Dyneema triumphed at the ITMA Future Materials Awards, scooping three gongs including the top prize of Launch of the Year for its Force Multiplier Technology; Best Innovation – Industrial Textiles; and Most Innovative Large Company.
Wool Market Report - 24th November 2014
A comprehensive weekly round-up and analysis of price developments at the major wool auctions around the world.
US wool market slow
US wool trading on a clean basis was slow with 131,500 lbs (59,648 kilos) of confirmed sales this week against good demand and trade activity moderate for this time of year.
Fine adult mohair prices up 10% at Port Elizabeth auction
The penultimate sale of the 2014 winter season took place in Port Elizabeth on Tuesday, November 18, with a total of 109,471 kilos on offer, of which 99% sold.
Insight24 Nov 2014Stronger rand weakens South Africa wool market
The market was slightly softer at this week’s sale with the Cape Wool’s Merino Indicator shedding 1.4% compared to the previous sale, to close at R111.62 per kilo clean. This is unchanged compared to the opening sale of this season and 2.9% down compared to the corresponding sale of the previous season. On the Australian market, the indicator gained a mere 0.5%.
