ACME Mills, USA has joined forces with Quantum Materials, LLC to launch the newest level of fabric innovation designed for aircraft seating applications – Comfort Zone powered by QUANTUM™ ZXT technology.
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How will purchasing look in the future? It’s obvious that the purchasing behavior of customers has changed in recent years. In online retailing, a wide range of selections and permanent availability are scoring strongly, while street store customers appreciate the personal advice – and the immediate availability of merchandise.
Stretchy athletic wear has dominated fashion for several years. Between 2011 and 2016, the market for athletic wear grew to be 30 per cent of the total clothing and footwear industry, increasing an impressive 7 per cent a year compared to the 1 per cent growth of the apparel sector in general, according to Wells Fargo analysts.
Gap Inc unveiled an ambitious new sustainable manufacturing goal to conserve a total of 10 billion liters of water by the end of 2020; those water savings would be the equivalent volume of the daily drinking water need for 5 billion people.
ITMA 2019 will feature a number of industry-leading knowledge-sharing events to facilitate sharing and collaboration among global textile and garment industry members. Hot button issues such as sustainable innovation, Industry 4.0 and automation will be on many agendas during the show.
The Albstadt-based circular knitting machine manufacturer Mayer & Cie. has received an IKU award. The SME won a Climate and Environment Innovation Prize (IKU) for its spinitsystems spinning and knitting technology.
Rieter’s growth in order intake in the Asian countries (excluding China, India and Turkey) was pleasing.
The Rieter Group achieved an order intake of CHF 1 051.5 million in the 2017 financial year. This represents an increase of 16 per cent compared to the previous year (+ CHF 146.3 million). Thus, the upturn seen in the first half of 2017 continued. Sales totaled CHF 965.6 million, up 2 per cent on the previous year (2016: CHF 945.0 million). The full annual financial statements and the 2017 Annual Report will be published by Rieter on March 13, 2018.