A new wool and rice straw blended upholstery fabric, which has been developed by a Wellington company, goes into commercial production next year with the potential to create significant demand for New Zealand crossbred wool, while helping ...
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A new wool and rice straw blended upholstery fabric, which has been developed by a Wellington company, goes into commercial production next year with the potential to create significant demand for New Zealand crossbred wool, while helping ...
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Mannington Commercial has been awarded Gold and Silver honors for product design in the 2013 Nightingale Awards. Sponsored by Contract Magazine, The Center for Health Design and Healthcare Design 2013, the awards showcase the best in ...
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Honduras-based Grupo Karim's — a vertical manufacturer of private-label products with yarn spinning, chemicals and apparel manufacturing operations in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean — has acquired Cone Denim Mills ...
Tags: Textile, cotton, synthetic sportswear, jeans, twill bottoms
The exports of textiles and apparel from Portugal increased by 1.8 percent year-on-year to €2.839 billion during the first eight months of the current year, according to figures released by the Textile and Clothing Association of ...
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The exports of textiles, excluding apparel, from Turkey increased by 7.9 percent year-on-year during the first seven months of 2013, according to the data compiled by the Istanbul Textile and Apparel Exporters' Association (ITKIB). ...
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Austria-based Andritz Group recently opened a plastic film production competence center at its Andritz Biax location in Foshan, China. At a recent customer day to mark the opening of the center, guests were offered tours of the ...
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Few decades ago, African countries, including Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa, were listed in the list of world’s largest textile industries and currently the textile sector in the region is faced with several challenges. ...
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A sweater by definition is a knitted top, and knitted garments have been around a very long time. So the real answer to who invented the sweater is the same answer to "who invented knitting?" Knitting by definition is the process of ...
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Sweater coats old and new have a long fashion history. Whether retro or modern you can find them online or knit your own. Knitted garments have been around for a long time. Knitting is such an ancient craft that no one knows who first ...
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The term "sweater" is a catch-all for a variety of knit garments. Although the term often refers to a pullover, it can also refer to a cardigan, a garment that opens and fastens down the front. Within either group, there is a great variety ...
Hi-Tech Printing & Labeling, Inc. offers woven labels, adhesive labels, organic clothing tags, and more to garment makers and manufacturers this wedding season, but in a multicultural area like Southern California, wedding garments mean ...
The best collegiate lacrosse teams will take the field in highly innovative Nike uniform systems, with select uniforms featuring inspirational designs that pay homage to the sport’s ancient roots. From its indigenous North American ...
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Precision Fabrics Group (PFG), maker of value-added, woven and non-woven technical textiles for performance applications, has selected OEKO-TEX? Standard 100, a comprehensive textile product safety certification program that ensures ...
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Energy efficient membranes, silicone-coated textile fibres, a new master batch for tintable polypropylene or technologies for integrating systems into apparel – these are just some of the inventions of the ten winners of the ...
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