The decline in cotton price and slowing demand for apparel and other textile products in key North American and European markets have put tremendous pressure on synthetic pricing in the past several months. The global synthetic fiber price ...
Tags: Synthetic Fiber, Cotton
Armstrong will initiate a price increase in the U.S. and Canada on commercial vinyl composition tile and BioBased tile by 4%, commercial wall base by 4% and select residential tile products including Units, Afton and Classic tile by 5%, ...
Tags: Armstrong, Residential Tile
With thousands of shoes on display, the fashion capital’s footwear presentations offered many memorable moments. Here, FN pinpoints a selection of like-worthy outliers. Fresh Loaf:Designers modified the menswear loafer with kilties, ...
Swiss-headquartered resources company Ferrexpo, whose main interests are in Ukrainian iron ore assets, has announced that in the third quarter of the current year its overall iron ore pellet production increased by 13.2 percent year on year ...
Do you like the green plants? Most people are very fond of green plants! Now to introduce you the first successful synthesis of artificial biological green leaves. The materials of artificial green leaves are extracted from silk fiber. ...
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Germany based, The Hohenstein Institute now offers allergen-resistance testing of mattress and bed covers using real dust mite excrement as an accredited service. In the test, all components of the encasing or what is called the textile ...
Tags: Certification, Textile, Mattress
The Asian price spread between high density polyethylene and ethylene feedstock turned negative Thursday, September 25, falling to minus $5/mt from parity a day before, due to the bearish PE market amid continued firm ethylene, Platts data ...
Tags: HDPE-Ethylene, PE
Airlight Energy of Biasca, Switzerland, which supplies proprietary technology for large-scale production of electricity using solar power and for energy storage, has partnered with IBM Research, aiming to bring affordable solar technology ...
Tags: CPV IBM, Electrical, Electronics
The future looks bright for the Chilean economy which in recent years has benefited from rising exports and foreign investments. This new optimism has had a positive effect on the country's packaging market, reveals new report from ...
Thoratec Corp. has replaced CEO Gary Burbach with the man who previously led the company for a decade. New president and CEO Keith Grossman served in those roles at the Pleasanton, CA–based company from 1996 to 2006, when Burbach ...
KidsPlayTest will test products on students at a UK primary school once every two months. Kids Brand Insight has launched a new toy testing service for toy companies called c. Clients that sign up will see their products taken into a UK ...
The fire performance of Palusol fire protection panels has recently been given the top A1 rating for construction products under European DIN EN 13501-1, which means that Palusol is now classified as a “non-combustible” ...
Luxury chocolate retailer Pure Madness Chocolate has joined forces with lifestyle brandcto offer their products on Frontgate.com. "We are thrilled to establish this partnership with Frontgate," explains Lynn Gonsior, President of Pure ...
Tags: Pure Madness Chocolate, Frontgate, Food
The Thailand Textile Institute (THTI) has joined hands with Rajamangala University of Technology (RMUT) to promote the local Muslim fashion industry in Thailand. The Ministry of Industry, Thailand, has successfully started using local ...