3/14/2023 11:22:10 AM
Climatechange is undeniably progressing. CO2 neutral production is beingdiscussed and there are calls to pay even more attention to the recyclabilityof end products in the textile chain in the future. This has brought textileproducers, machine builders, fiber manufacturers and the chemical industry e…
3/6/2023 6:54:12 PM
Invisible Innovation | XLANCE?XLANCE?, the original EOL yarn It was 2003 when the DOW Chemical Company invented anew polyolefin yarn and launched it on the market, calling it XLA. The new-bornelastomeric fibre, called elastolefin, specifically designed to possesshigh elasticity performance, immedia…
2/23/2023 9:28:51 AM
At INDEX in Geneva from April 18-21, 2023, AUTEFA Solutions will showcase its latest technical developments in the field of nonwoven production technology. The focus is not only on classic mechanical engineering with its ambitions for higher-faster-further, but also on the protection of resources and…
2/20/2023 1:11:50 PM
Nowadays, with comfortable requirements more and more demanded by consumers, elastic clothing fabric is the basic for all kinds of clothing from sportswear to workwear. Meanwhile there is some newer innovative elastic fiber emerging in the market, it's flexible-designed to meet different textile pro…
2/15/2023 6:02:23 PM
Innovator Xchange to offer innovation insights from industry experts 14 February 2023 – The stage is set for ITMA 2023 to host a highly anticipated showcase of trendsetting textile and garment technologies when it opens in Milan on 8 June. Exhibition space grossing 220,000 square metres of the Fi…
2/14/2023 11:15:03 AM
The biggest Irishjersey producer O’NEILLS finishes their elastic high-quality sportswear on aBRüCKNER line. The 100 % Irish owned company was founded in 1918 byCharles O’Neill to produce Gaelic footballs. Today the family-run companyemploys more than 900 people acrossIreland, the UK, France, A…
2/8/2023 1:10:48 PM
Business situation: gloom – Expectations: boom The businesssituation is at a new low point since ITMF started the Global Textile IndustrySurvey in 2021. High inflation and rising interest rates are the main current driversof the global economy, but the core problem of the textile supply chain in 202…
2/7/2023 3:58:02 PM
The prosperity index of China’s cotton textile industry came in at 49.94 in December, up 2.79 from November, hitting the highest value of the whole year, which maintained a recovery trend.In December, the raw material purchasing index came in at 51.88, up 6.15 over November; the raw material invento…
2/7/2023 3:56:15 PM
The world is undergoing changes of a scale unseen in a century, and the international economic and trade environment was turbulent and unstable. In the face of the complex and severe international situation, China’s foreign trade showed strong resilience, which totaled more than CNY 42 trillion in 2…
2/7/2023 1:26:25 PM
“ITMF’s Cotton Contamination Survey2022 shows that the level of contamination of raw cotton by foreign matters andstickiness have decreased compared to 2019. At the same time the appearance ofseed-coat fragments remained the same. The survey also reveals significantdifferences between cotton variet…
