Browsing: Industry Update

The demand for wool is continuing to grow in major international markets for imported clothing like the EU and the US. The demand is forecast to grow more strongly in China—the world’s largest producer and exporter of woollen clothing and textiles.

TEXAURA is a GOTS-certified 100 per cent organic cotton bedding range, which is luxurious and sustainable. Texaura is derived from two words- ‘Tex’ from Textiles and ‘Aura’, the combination of which is ‘Texaura’.

Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics–Spring Edition 2017, one of the world’s leading exhibitions for apparel fabrics and accessories, is set to take place from March 28-31, 2017 at Shanghai New International Expo Center.

Arab Carpet and Flooring Expo, along with Yarn and Fiber Expo in 2017, will run for the second time at the award-winning Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC), Abu Dhabi.

Mimaki, a leading manufacturer of wide-format inkjet printers and cutting systems, has announced that its Tx300P-1800 and Tx300P-1800B direct-to-textile printers have been updated to simultaneously load both textile pigment and sublimation dye inks.

Wacker Chemie AG is expanding its existing production plants for polymeric binders in Germany. The Munich-based chemical group is currently building another dispersion reactor with an annual capacity of 60,000 metric tonne at its Burghausen site. Some €25 million have been earmarked for production and local-infrastructure expansion.

SPGPrints announced that Tekboy Tekstil, of Istanbul, Turkey, has installed a JAVELIN® digital printer to supplement production capacity, and meet increased demand for shorter-runs, rapid turnarounds and on-demand sample production.