The silk industry of Cambodia is in rapid decline due to limited domestic supply of silk yarn and high cost of imported raw materials. According to the latest data released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)-Cambodia, the ...
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Primitive, the well known Chicago gallery has opened an exhibition of rare, hand woven African ceremonial skirts known as “heirloom cloth.” Created by the Dida People in the Ivory Coast, the textiles are woven without the use of ...
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Rehabmart.com, an online e-commerce company that sells rehabilitation and medical supplies, has joined into a distribution agreement with Confortaire, Incorporated, to offer their Abduction Pillow to a wider consumer marketplace. ...
The talented American artist Inez Harwood has set a Guinness World record by creating the world’s longest tie-and-dye piece of cloth under her Liberty project, which strives to spread awareness about America’s dying textile ...
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The Curtain Exchange, a designer drapery retailer in Louisville, Kentucky will be hosting the Peacock Alley Bedding Trunk Show on Thursday, March 21 from 1-7 pm at The Vogue Center in St. Matthews. The trunk show offers guests the ...
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The imports of textiles and apparels by the US increased in January 2013, with Vietnam and Bangladesh turning out to be the fastest growing suppliers to the western nation. The overall textile and apparel imports by the US grew by 3.7 ...
The Cotton textile exports are expected to gain double digit growth this financial year. Our last year’s exports were US$ 8.42 billion and it is expected to be US $ 9.56 billion for the current financial year. The textile industry ...
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In a bid to promote US designers in China, which is rapidly-growing as an international luxury market, the Beijing-based high-end fashion web retailer Shangpin.com has entered into a partnership deal with the Council of Fashion Designers of ...
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Assam Petrochemicals hopes to start its new acetic acid plant towards the end of 2015. “The start-up of plant has been postponed due to some pending regulatory issues. It was originally scheduled to start towards end-2014,” ...
Rosink is looking forward to one of the most important trade shows in the industries of textiles. Two oppositional machines can be viewed by the attendee at the Rosink booth in Hall E1 in Shanghai. SZ1 A Twin / HA grinding center combines ...
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Methanex Corporation announced plans to increase operating capacity at its New Zealand operations by 700,000 tonnes to 2.2 million tonnes by the end of 2013. Methanex has secured a new natural gas supply agreement, which will enable the ...
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Gov. Bobby Jindal, South Louisiana Methanol CEO Barry Williamson and Todd Corp. Group CEO Jon Young announced that South Louisiana Methanol LP will invest $1.3 billion in a new methanol production facility on the banks of the Mississippi ...
Images Group recently held a road show in Ahmedabad to promote the 3rd edition of ‘InFashion' to be held from March 20-22 in Mumbai. Also present on the occasion was Mr Ramesh Poddar – Chairman of Siyaram Silk Mills Ltd and ...
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Cotton prices have increased significantly over the last eight months, a period when the harvesting is intensified and Brazilian cotton exports move up. The 2011/12 season (harvested in 2012) was the second highest in history, and ...
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Computer Generated Solutions (CGS), a leading global provider of technology solutions and services, announced that Creative Apparel Concepts has chosen the BlueCherry Enterprise Suite to streamline all of their operations under one ...
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