The OEKO-TEX Secretariat was established 20 years ago in Switzerland and for this reason, this year's meeting of the OEKO-TEX General Managers on November 14th and 15th took place in Lucerne - at the heart of Europe and Switzerland. With ...
One of the main factors affecting the Spanish cotton sector is the difficulty of access to credit and financing for cotton production in the country, and the lack of measures to support the industry in general, especially in terms of ...
Tags: Lack of Credit, Cotton Sector
Pointcarre has announced a partnership with Yunique Solutions, a Gerber Technology company, integrating Pointcarre's CAD and YuniquePLM. "The textile industry has never before seen a partnership with this much integration between a ...
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The four partners BRAIN, the Hohenstein Institute, Kelheim Fibres and rkona, announce the formation of a new research alliance for the biotechnical production and modification of specialty alginates. The aim of the alliance is to establish ...
Tags: alliance, Microbial, production, application, biopolymer
Greenville-based textile machinery distributor Lang Ligon & Co. Inc. has added weaving preparation, sectional warping and related equipment from Spain-based COMSAT to the product lines it offers its customers in the United States and ...
Tags: Lang Ligon, COMSAT Warper, Norfab, Twitchell
Durham, N.C.-based antimicrobial textile technology provider PurThread Technologies Inc. and Rochester, N.Y.-based Eastman Kodak Co. have signed a globally exclusive agreement with under which PurThread will embed Kodak's antimicrobial ...
Tags: PurThread, Kodak, antimicrobial, technology, Textile
The textile and apparel industry of the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep is a major contributor towards the country’s economy, as well as its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), said Gaziantep Chamber of Industry (GSO) chairman Adil ...
Tags: Textiles Sector, Textile
Identifying best practices and environmental strategies to promote sustainable development of apparel and textile sector was the main theme of the recently held Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) congress, at the University of Coruna, in ...
The National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) praises the reintroduction of the Textile Enforcement and Security Act (TESA) in the 113th Congress. Congressmen Tom Graves (R-GA-14) and Mike McIntyre (D-NC-7) reintroduced the bill in ...
Tags: Textile Enforcement, Security Act
March 2014 sees the return of two prominent home textile shows held during China’s peak spring sourcing period. Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles – Spring Edition will take place from 3 – 5 March 2014 at the Shanghai ...
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INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, had a busy Fall in China advancing its global partnerships to enhance member access to new markets. INDA was a sponsor of the Asia-Pacific Nonwovens Symposium held October 22 in ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories, Textile
Today, more than ever, briquetting press machine makes good business sense to recover energy from production ravage and becomes popular source of fuel. The people are well aware of this fact from their long experience in wood business, ...
The United Arab Emirates is now becoming the world's leading centre for textile industry automation with the presence of about 150 apparel manufacturing companies in satellite cities around Sharjah and Dubai, according to an article on ...
Tags: textile industry, apparel
On 28 October 2013, the Hohenstein Institute had two reasons to celebrate: In addition to the official opening of the new “Otto Mecheels building” with around 2,580 m² floor area, Willy Bogner, the owner of the sports ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Willy Bogner
The 2nd Euratex Convention – the European exchange & meeting platform for the textile industry – took place on 4 and 5 November 2013 at Deutsche Bank (DB) in Berlin. Gesamtverband textil+mode hosted the event and geared the ...
Tags: T&C Industry, Textile