Exports of knitwear from Pakistan increased by 10.19 per cent from $1.306 billion last year to $1.44 billion for the first 7 months (July-January) of the current financial year. Meanwhile, The International Labour Organisation (ILO) and Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) have signed an agreement to promote decent work in the garment and textile industry in Faisalabad.
Year: 2015
In January 2015, Claudia Wagner has been appointed Head of Operations / COO at SSM Schärer Schweiter Mettler AG in Horgen. She is in charge for SSM´s global production and supply network.
The latest ´Textile Pipeline´ from PCI Fibres offers in 11 pages a highly focused review in the form of text, charts and tables of the Indian textiles economy; an economy which has been experiencing relatively disappointing growth among its local consumers; that is, until 2014. Following a bounce-back in per capita fibre demand of nearly 10 per cent in 2009, growth then slowed year by year down to just 2 per cent in 2013, coming back strongly in 2014 by nearly 8 per cent.
In January 2015, China´s export of textiles and garment dropped 10.71 per cent year-on-year to US$ 25.54 billion. The export of textiles dropped 7.7 per cent to near US$ 9.72 billion, and the export of garment dropped 12.5 per cent to about US$ 15.83 billion.
Rabatex Industries, Ahmedabad, which is the largest manufacturer of weaving preparatory machinery, offers single-end sample warper VMI 601, suitable for any modern weaving unit. It can produce sample warps with short lengths, less than 100 m warps.
Groz-Beckert and Bekaert signed an agreement regarding the acquisition of Bekaert´s Carding Solutions activities by Groz-Beckert. The division has around 350 employees. Owing to the acquisition Groz-Beckert expands his existing service programme for card clothing by a corresponding product portfolio.
IRO AB of Sweden has presented the Star G2, which incorporates many of the latest feeder developments into one neat package.