Leather upholstery resource Leather Italia USA has moved its High Point Market showroom to space 101 of the Market on Green building at 212 E. Green Drive. The showroom building is across the street from the company's former location in ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Leather
Last week, the Rupp Report wrote about the initiative against rip-off artists, as it is called in Switzerland, or against Fats Cats, as called misleadingly in some other countries (See " The Rupp Report: Is Enough Now Enough?" ...
Spartanburg-based textile machinery supplier Zimmer America Corp. is now the exclusive agent in North America for ARTEC (Advanced Recycling Technology) Machinery GmbH — an Austria-based developer and builder of high-performance ...
The Association of Industries of Haiti has become the 31st trade group to join the Textile and Apparel Alliance for TPP (TAAT), which comprises trade associations advocating strong and fair textile rules in the Trans-Pacific Partnership ...
Tags: Textile
Aquafil, ECNC Land & Sea Group and Star Sock have together established the "Healthy Seas, a Journey from Waste to Wear" Initiative. The main objective of this Healthy Seas Initiative is to remove waste, in particular fishing nets, and ...
Tags: Textile
A comprehensive new report, "Latin American Nonwoven Markets: Trends, Forecasts, and Analysis 2012-2017" is now available from INDA, Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry. Written by industry consultant, Rick Jezzi, A.D. Jezzi and ...
The 25th edition of Colombiatex de las Américas — produced and organized by the Institute for Export and Fashion (Inexmoda), Medellín, Colombia — was held recently at Plaza Mayor in Medellín. The exhibition ...
Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Denim has launched the Cone? 3D initiative for bringing denim innovations to the marketplace. Cone 3D — which refers to denim, design and development — will focus on technologies offering ...
Twice a year, international apparel textile trade shows open in New York City with news of what's ahead in fashion. According to Jacques Brunel, managing director, Première Vision S.A., Paris, "the market wants to see something new" ...
Arkema launched the Genesis program in 2008, backed by OSEO, designed to bring together major industrial groups, SMEs and academic laboratories within a partnership for the development of new performance materials with a nanometric ...
Tags: nanostructured materials, nanometric structure, nanometric
The 11th Five Year Plan growth targets for textiles sector were (a) cloth production to grow at the rate of 12 percent in volume terms; (b) clothing and apparel to grow at the rate of 16 percent in volume terms and 21 percent in value ...
Tags: fabric output, fabric, textiles sector
Bangladesh, the second largest readymade garment (RMG) manufacturer in the world after China, is witnessing a dip in new investments in the field of textile in last two years. Bangladesh apparel makers are worried about the shortage in ...
Tags: textile, RMG makers, textile industry
The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and the United College Employees of the Fashion Institute of Technology (UCE-FIT), along with four other groups, have underwritten an international competition to create the design for a permanent ...
Tags: Fashion Institute, Garment Industry, Garment
The Woolmark Company anticipates its Out of Vietnam project will generate growth in the Vietnam wool processing industry, resulting in increased demand for Australian Merino wool. The Out of Vietnam project is working towards developing a ...
Tags: wool, wool processing industry, Merino Wool
Synthetic Yarn and Fiber Association’s Textiles: Get Smart conference will be held from April 18-19, 2013 at Charlotte, North Carolina - USA. Friday's keynote address will be presented by Dr. Mike Fralix. Dr. Fralix's key message ...