The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates for 2013/14 project world cotton stocks to reach a new record at 93.8 million bales, 7.4 million bales above the previous season. Stocks this season are expected to rise for the ...
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The Siam Society will hold a Textile talk by Dale Carolyn Gluckman on Thursday, 29 August 2013. Ms. Dale Carolyn Gluckman, a former head of the Department of Costume and Textiles at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is an independent ...
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The DyStar Group recently released its third Annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions Assessment Report, otherwise known as Carbon Footprint Report, which is based on its global operations in the reporting year of 2012. In 2012, DyStar implemented ...
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IAF’s 29th World Fashion Convention has managed to create a well balanced mix of speakers covering subjects from different and crucial areas of the supply chain. Its speakers are a mix of Chinese apparel tycoons, European and US ...
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Expenditures on insect control in cotton are essentially unchanged at about 16 or 17 cents per kilogram of cotton over the last decade, despite inflation in chemical prices. However, as a percent of total production costs, insecticides are ...
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Zimbabwe is likely to miss its cotton production target of 250 million kg set for the ongoing selling season, which is expected to close by the end of August. For the current season, Agritex and farmers’ unions had set ...
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Philippines’ Department of Science and Technology (DOST), through its Provincial Science and Technology Center (PSTC) recently conducted training on advance bleaching and dyeing of abaca fibre. Members of Tanikala ng Pagkakaisa ...
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Panamanian market is the ideal destination for the development of Peru's non-traditional exports, including textiles and garments, Peru’s Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Magali Silva Velarde-Alvarez, has said. Speaking at ...
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Visual 2000 International Inc. announces that branded and private label accessories leader Aquarius Ltd. has selected its Visual End-2-End fashion business software solution. The designer, manufacturer, and marketer of belts, wallets, and ...
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A recent study on shopping behaviors confirmed what most know instinctively: it’s no fun to wait in line at check out, and three out of four shoppers say this is what they hate most about shopping (SYNQERA May 2013). Honeywell ...
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ICE cotton futures shot up again this week with the spot December contract advancing 439 points to close at 93.32, highest since March this year. Monday’s supply & demand report by USDA projected a tight supply situation with the US ...
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Exports of textile and clothing from Portugal increased by 1 percent to €2.1 billion during the first half of 2013 compared to the same period in 2012, according to the data released by Association of Textiles and Clothing Industries ...
The capital of gambling, partying and glamour is also celebrating fashion from 19-21 August, in Magic Market Week. Ten Portuguese companies will be taking part in this year’s show - Dielmar - Dom Colletto by Fortiustex - Fame On You - ...
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India’s exports of handicrafts grew by 10 percent year-on-year to US$ 205 million in July 2013 due to the rising demand from markets like US, China and Latin America. According to the data provided by Export Promotion Council ...
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SEL Manufacturing Company Limited, a Ludhiana based integrated textile conglomerate, has registered a turnover of Rs. 1381.58 crore during the quarter ended 30th June, 2013 as against Rs. 634.76 crore in the corresponding quarter last year, ...
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