The most important factor in the area of blowroom and cards is the raw material. A saving of 1% good fibres shows considerable effects, writes Simon Urrutia. At a customer in southern India, the rare opportunity presented itself to carry out a direct comparison of the blowroom and card waste. Running parallel there are a Rieter blowroom and carding section as well as a preparation line from another manufacturer, each with practically the same year of construction and almost the same production rate.
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The new combing set achieves the greatest productivity worldwide. The technology advantage of Rieter combing is based on the optimal interaction between machine and technology components, avers Yvan Schwartz. Confirmation of this strength, not only in the laboratory but especially under real production conditions with different cotton types, is Rieter’s guarantee for the customers success. The technological resp. qualitative and economical benefits are illustrated as follows.
Spinners are increasingly seeking to take control of the level of contamination in yarn. They need to meet customers’ quality demands exactly, using foolproof but flexible methods which also take account of mill efficiency, minimising waste and optimising productivity. This case study focuses on an Indian yarn manufacturer which originally invested in early-stage fibre cleaning in 2009, and has since upgraded to Total Contamination Control, combining the USTER® JOSSI VISION SHIELD and USTER® QUANTUM 3.
The cricketer hopes his new brand would be worth Rs 100 crore in the next three years. “It would be an athletic fashion clothing line for men, women and children. While 70 per cent would be men’s fashion the rest would be women’s. The brand foresees to close somewhere around Rs 25-30 crore in topline in the current financial year and we see it becoming a Rs 100 crore brand in three years,†said Singh.
EU clothing imports from China dropped by a considerable volume of 9.9 per cent in the first three months of this year compared to that of last year, reveals Textiles Intelligence in a recent report. This drop follows a 12.5 per cent decline in the whole of 2015, which dragged imports down to the lowest level since 2006. The decline in both periods represented the steepest falls among EU’s 10 largest clothing suppliers. As a result, China’s share of EU clothing imports from all sources declined in both periods from 43.3 per cent in 2014 to just 35.1 per cent in the first three months of 2016.
China will account for the fastest growing and second-largest share of demand through 2020 and beyond as its medical delivery system is expanded and upgraded to better serve its massive population. These and other trends are presented in World Medical Disposables, a new study from The Freedonia Group, a Cleveland-based industry research firm. Western Europe will remain the third-largest major market for medical disposables, reflecting the operation of a universal health insurance plan and an advanced medical delivery system in most countries. On the downside, growth prospects for medical disposables in the region will slow due to tight cost controls such as budgeting and fixed reimbursement rates.
China is now the second largest jeans market in the world, valued at $12 billion in 2015, while consumers’ affinity for denim jumped from 39 per cent to 63 per cent from 2003 to 2016, according to the Cotton Council International (CCI) and Cotton Incorporated’s 2016 Global Lifestyle Monitor Survey. This favourable market has attracted an increasing number of industry-leading denim suppliers to partake in the Beyond Denim hall at Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics – Autumn Edition 2016. From October 11-13, over 170 domestic and overseas exhibitors will showcase their newest denim collections in this hall alongside the debut INVISTA Pavilion in hall 7.2 of the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai).