Heimtextil (9 to 12 January 2013) is showing a significant increase in the number of fibre and yarn exhibitors. The range of products runs the gamut from traditional materials to high-tech fibres for highly specialised applications. More ...
Tags: Heimtextil, Gütermann, Trevira, textile
Samuel K. Gayi, Head Special Unit on Commodities (SUC) UNCTAD said it all started in Geneva in December 2008 as an UNCTAD Secretary-General's multi-stakeholder forum to discuss the problems afflicting Africa's cotton sector. It later ...
Expecting comparatively lower sales during the approaching holiday season, US retailers have imported lesser quantity of textiles during the month of September 2012. The overall US textile and garment imports declined by 1.3 percent ...
Tags: OTEXA, garment import, textile import
Victoria PLC announces that Alan Bullock, Chairman & Managing Director of its principal trading subsidiary, Victoria Carpets Limited has elected to retire from the business and leaves the business with effect from 13 November 2012. Alan ...
Tags: Victoria PLC, Alan Bullock, principal trading subsidiary
Bangladesh, counted among the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) of the world, has overtaken Pakistan in textile weaving capacity. During 2006-11, Bangladesh added 2.830 million spindles and 21,850 shuttleless looms in the textile ...
The wool market was softer at this week sale with the Cape Wools Merino indicator shedding 1.6% to close the day at R98.73/kg (clean). This is still 13% up on the opening sale but slightly lower than at the same sale last season. The ...
Tags: Cape Wools Merino, wool, wool indicator, Wool Prices
The Southern India Mills' Association (SIMA) recently held a meeting to update the textile mill owners of Tamil Nadu (TN) regarding the prospects of expanding in western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. SIMA Chairman S ...
Tags: SIMA, textile, cotton, Textile Policy
Wool organizations from around the world have united to research the environmental credentials of this natural fibre. The starting point is the publication of a scientific report assessing existing wool Life Cycle Analyses (LCA). The ...
Tags: Sustainable Premium Fibre, IWTO, AWI, Wool
Nine firms signed up for International Cotton Association Ltd (ICA) membership in November - including six agents. • Aklo Tarim AS, Turkey • Asian Cotton Traders Pte Ltd, Singapore • Elonbur ...
Tags: cotton, raw cotton, ICA, the International Cotton Association
The 6th BACSA international conference "Building Value Chains in Sericulture" - BISERICA" 2013 , Italy from 7 to 12 April 2013. The Council of Research and Experiments in Agriculture, Apiculture and Sericulture Unit of Bologna, Padua ...
At present, bearish trend seems to be continuing in the long-term international cotton prices. The demand for cotton from textile mills is appearing only when there is a decline in cotton prices. In addition, the Government policies ...
Tags: cotton, cotton price, textile, cotton trade
All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) top leadership met the Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf at the Governor House Lahore. Chairman APTMA Ahsan Bashir led the delegation, comprising of Group Leader APTMA Gohar Ejaz, Chairman ...
Tags: APTMA, Raja Pervez Ashraf, Governor House Lahore, Group Leader
At a formal ceremony, Rieter handed over the K 45 compact spinning machine to the EGE University in Izmir. The K 45 compact spinning machine concerned is a very special machine: Rieter presented this machine in 2011 at the ITMA in ...
Tags: compact spinning machine, core yarn, fancy yarn, slub yarn
Invista, a Wichita, Kan.-based fibers and polymers manufacturer, is introducing a line of Cordura® Naturalle™ fabrics for workwear applications. The fabrics are based on a full dull nylon 6,6 yarn construction and offer the look, ...
Tags: fibers and polymers, natural-fiber-based fabrics, ready-to-wear apparel
Everybody remembers only too well when the global financial system collapsed in 2008. The textile industry, and especially the textile machinery industry, was severely hit by these problems. Most of the machinery suppliers had deep ...
Tags: R9500 rapier weaving machine, ITMA, Free Positive Approach