As part of the Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) "Out of Vietnam" project, 20 Vietnamese textile manufacturers have visited Australia to see first-hand how wool is grown, tested and traded, as well as assessing for themselves the quality of ...
Konstantinos V. Markou S.A. joins Cotton South Africa to become the second laboratory certified under the ICA Bremen ‘International Laboratory Certification Scheme’. Designed to raise the bar in the quality testing arena, ...
Although this week’s trading action may have felt like a victory for the bears, the chart reveals that the market has actually moved sideways in the last 15 sessions, with May closing in a tight range between 91 and 94 cents since ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, Mixed Trends, balance sheet
To start the Spring Summer season, French Connection plays with textures through traditional herringbone and Prince of Wales check while grindle yarns lend a thrifty vintage effect to shirting. Floral prints feature throughout the ...
Tags: French Connection, shirting, classic fabrics
Despite volatile trading, ICE Cotton futures settled only slightly higher this week at 93.74 c/lbs basis the K4, and not much change is seen in the overall open interest. The week opened down sharply on Monday, followed by a 350 pts gain on ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, Volatile Trading
The Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan is planning to harvest more than 1.05 million tons of cotton in 2014-15 by sowing seeds on 545,000 hectares of land, reports the State News Agency of Turkmenistan. At a meeting of the Cabinet ...
Tags: Cotton, Turkmenistan, cotton seeds
The new Chinese cotton policy has the potential to derail Indian raw cotton exports to the biggest cotton consuming country in the world. As per the new policy to be made applicable from April 1, the Chinese government has lowered cotton ...
Tags: Cotton Exports, Cotton Policy
Cotton arrival at ginneries in Pakistan increased by 4.08 percent year-on-year to 13.369 million bales as on March 15, 2014, according to the consolidated statement of cotton arrivals in factories of Pakistan, prepared by the Pakistan ...
Tags: Cotton, ginneries, textile mills
There is uneasiness that, following the release of China’s cotton policy, there will be pressure from Chinese buyers on Indian spinners to further reduce prices. In recent months, Chinese buyers have already lowered yarn buying ...
The exports of textiles and apparel from Pakistan increased by 8.28 percent year-on-year in the first eight months of the financial year 2013-14 that began on July 1, according to the data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics ...
Tags: Textile Exports, apparel, cotton
Epson announced the SureColor F2000 Series direct-to-garment (DTG) ink jet printers are now shipping. Poised to become the new benchmark in high-performance garment imaging, the SureColor F2000 White Edition and SureColor F2000 Color ...
Tags: Epson, Printers, DTG Printers
The market has remained undecided as to where it wants to go next, with the last eleven sessions closing in a narrow range of just 166 points. The structure is still more or less the same in current crop futures, with specs and index funds ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, crop futures, on-call sales
Keeping in mind the firm prices in New York, the demand for Upland cotton was quite restricted so that hardly any contracts could be closed. The interest was rather focused on long and extra-long staple cotton. Some inquiries ...
The light industry of Uzbekistan—which includes textile and garment sectors, is one of the fastest growing industries, and currently the country is exporting its textile products to over 40 nations, informed the Uzbek State Joint ...
Tags: light industry, textile, garment
During the current harvest season, the Latin American country of Paraguay is expected to produce around 1,800 to 2,000 kg of cotton per hectare, despite the drought, owing to use of transgenic cotton (Bt cotton) seeds, as per the Paraguayan ...
Tags: cotton, harvest season, transgenic cotton