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News17 Jul 2014China cotton imports slump again
Struggling on a sluggish market, China’s cotton yarn mills lost their appetite for imported raw cotton during the first half of 2014.
News17 Jul 2014Nylon quotations climb in China
Boosted by feedstock replacement costs, polyamide values inched up in China on Wednesday. The prices of the key product, polyamide 6 (FDY 70den/24f), rose by 150 yuan per tonne, to 22,400 a tonne on July 16.
Call for papers for 3D Fabrics conference
The organisers of the 6th World Conference on 3D Fabrics and their applications have issued a call for papers. The event is set to take place from May 26-29, 2015, at North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, USA, coordinated with TEXCOMP-12 at the same location.
Italian machinery builders eye Mongolian cashmere opportunities
Italian textile-machinery companies are gearing up to help improve the quantity and quality of cashmere processing in Mongolia.
News17 Jul 2014First FESPA Africa deemed a success
The inaugural FESPA Africa, formerly Sign Africa, attracted 5,460 visitors from the continent, with an 11% increase of attendees from outside South Africa compared to Sign Africa 2013.
News17 Jul 2014Europa presents new super-stretch denim collection
Europa, Tuscan textile manufacturer of stretch and super-stretch cotton fabrics, has revealed its Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 collection. The company caters for the casual, sport and denim clothing sectors, and boasts a fully traceable supply chain and a ‘100% Made in Italy’ production.
Digitech patent deemed invalid by US Court of Appeals
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has confirmed that a device profile patent asserted by a subsidiary of the non-practicing entity Acacia Research Corporation against EFI and 31 other companies is invalid.
Nonwovens in the fast lane
The significant growth potential linked to the car market was the topic of discussion at the recent Nonwovens for High Performance Applications conference
News17 Jul 2014REVIEW: Fatex Closer to Selling conference
The Closer to Selling conference, hosted by Fatex, saw a lower attendance than 2013, with an overall turnaround of 968 visitors. However, the atmosphere at the show was calm yet industrious, the organiser said.
ITMA 2015 space more than 95% sold
Global textile and garment technology suppliers have snapped up space at next year’s ITMA exhibition in Milan. ITMA 2015, the world’s most established textile and garment machinery exhibition, had attracted more than 1,300 applicants from 43 countries by the application deadline of 4 July.
News16 Jul 2014Zegna buys Aussie Merino wool farm
Zegna Group, luxury menswear brand, has acquired the Achill wool farm in Australia, where Merino sheep are reared.
Shaw outlines annual sustainability achievements
Shaw Industries Group, carpet and flooring manufacturer, has recycled more than 700 million pounds of carpet since 2006, according to its sixth annual sustainability report.
Wacker jacks up polymer prices
Wacker Polymers is raising the prices for vinyl acetate-ethylene and ethylene-vinyl chloride-based copolymer dispersions of the Vinnapas and Vinnol brand in the Americas and Greater China. Effective from August 1, prices will increase by $0.03 per pound in the Americas and by CNY300 per ton in China.
iFormulate hopes for repeat success with second ink jet workshop
iFormulate is organising the Intermediate Ink Jet Formulation workshop, to be held on September 25 in Runcorn, UK.
News16 Jul 2014Rising Chinese presence at FESPA
FESPA Digital 2014 in Munich, Germany, attracted over 100 Chinese printers, double the number that attended FESPA Digital 2011 in Hamburg. The increased attendance from China suggests that the direct presence of FESPA in China since 2013 is driving interest among Chinese specialist printers, organisers said.
Nonwovens industry backs the conclusion of EU-Japan Free Trade talks
The European Union (EU) and Japanese nonwovens industries are backing a successful conclusion of negotiations between the EU and Japan on a free trade agreement (FTA). The talks, which began in March 2013, have entered a scheduled review phase after what seems to have been a testing first year though “work and consultation with the EU member states is ongoing and the talks have not broken down, that’s clear,” said John Clancy, the Commission’s trade spokesman. The EU had warned from the start that it would stop the talks after a year if there had been no commitment from the Japanese to remove non-tariff barriers to trade. But that has not happened. Nonwovens industry associations are now awaiting with considerable interest the imminent publication of a report from the European Commission on the state of the talks.
Traceable socks
After 20 years of working at some of North Carolina’s major hosiery companies, Marty Nester realised he had the skills and knowledge needed to open his own company. So, he founded Nester Hosiery in Surry County, North Carolina, US, in 1993.
Sales in Aussie jeans expected to rise
According to new consumer goods research from Euromonitor International, the Australian jeans category is expected to see an improvement in sales between 2013 and 2018.
Consumer survey favours biopolishing to extend T-shirt life
Novozymes engaged an independent research company to take to the streets in both France and Germany and randomly recruit 310 survey participants. With the survey results demonstrating that 86% of the participants purchased cotton garments at least every six months and one-third at least once a month, it was a topic they could all relate to.
News16 Jul 2014Miller Weldmaster presents automated banner machine
Miller Weldmaster has added the Automated Edge Seamer 1900 (AES1900) to its line of high-performance, production-enhancing automated machine models. The new AES is designed for banner manufacturing, aiming to make it timely, efficient and hassle-free.
Researchers develop car seats which detect when drivers fall asleep
Car seats which can alert drivers if they start to nod off at the wheel are being developed as part of a study by the UK’s Nottingham Trent University researchers.
RevoLaze expands Cleaveland Laser Technology Center
RevoLaze has announced plans to expand its ‘Laser Technology Center’ in Cleaveland, Ohio, US, this year. The centre will house RevoLaze’s Linear Processing machine with 5,000 watts of total laser power, as well as a new delivery system for finished garments.
