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Jeanologia a global developer of sustainable technologies for garment finishing will be showcasing a range of new developments in denim at the oncoming Kingpins Show. Jeanologia has developed a line of indigo knits and yoga pants using sustainable technologies like the new laser flexi HS 3D system of nano bubbles e-flow and eco-washing G2 ozone. Beautiful designs have been efficiently achieved by the use of the Jeanologia laser, ozone and sustainable technologies. These developments will be presented by Jeanologia at the Kingpins Show, which will be held on July 29 and 30 in the US.
The sustainable technologies laser, ozone and e-flow developed by Jeanologia have transformed the textile industry, offering endless possibilities of design and finishes on garments while providing energy efficiency, reducing water consumption and eliminating damaging emissions and waste. Further, these techniques enable automation of processes and the development of sustainable production that reduce costs and increase productivity in the textile industry.
Jeanologia was incepted with the purpose of changing the way the denim industry relates to the earth and its inhabitants. Jeanologia started to work on developing more efficient and sustainable finishing technologies. The objective was to reduce water consumption, to reduce chemicals and to save energy from textile processing. Today, a worldwide technological movement in textiles is determined to transform the industry into a cleaner one, while being also more efficient.
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View Premium Selection Munich held recently has finalized its preview on the trends for fabrics and accessories for the winter season. Many new collections were exhibited including Cotonificio Albini, Deveaux, Taroni, Lyria, Progetto Uno, Blue Royal, Bonotto, Lisa, Ermenegildo Zegna, Agnona, Mahlia Kent, Brunello, Takisada, Liberty and Fauck. Especially for the denim business, View proposes an additional possibility to present new developments in the continuous process of new inventions. Denim weavers like ITV-Denim, Tavex, Bossa Denim, Italdenim, Pordenone-Olimpias and Tejidos Royo were present.
About 300 selected collections were presented, twice as many as at the previous event. The number of visitors increased 83 per cent with design teams from brands like Hugo Boss, Talbot Runhof, Marc O’Polo and Laurèl visiting the event. In trends, the tendencies in the premium segment were still about richness like fury haptic, strong 3-D-structures, jacquards and metallic looks. In the denim segment, softness of denim got even more comfortable, and new authentic leather or snake finishes gave denim an unknown new face. Also the trend to include aesthetics and fabrics from active wear into fashion was represented in numerous stretch fabrics.
Knitwear also remained important for trousers and jackets, with inspiration coming again from athletic wear.
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The 2014 International Apparel Sourcing Expo in New York City wrapped up yesterday. This is the largest textile sourcing event in North America. It attracts top designers, manufacturers and buyers. Organized by the China National Textile and Apparel Council and Messe Frankfurt USA this was the 15th edition of the show.
Exhibitors were categorized among apparel, home, and textiles, with professionals showcasing embroidery, denim, lace, linen, silk, wool, and more. More than 700 companies from 21 countries - including some 300 from China – exhibited at the fair. Chinese fabric and textile companies showcased the strong ties they have with New York City's fashion and garment industries. China's textile and fabric industries significantly contribute to US-China bilateral relations. It was 35 years back the US and China reestablished diplomatic ties. Trade between the two nations has increased 200 times since then.
New York City is a premier fashion capital. The fashion industry is critical to New York City's cultural and economic success, employing 1,80,000 New Yorkers and generating more than $10 billion in wages each year.
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Cambodia's garment and footwear exports rose by 16 per cent in the first six months of 2014. The products are mainly exported to European countries and the United States.
The garment and textile industry in Cambodia was established in 1993 when foreign investors set up manufacturing there. Over the past 20 years, the industry has grown tremendously and is now the largest foreign exchange earner in Cambodia and a significant contributor to its economy. The country rebounded strongly from the global economic downturn, with garment and textile exports in 2010 increasing 25 per cent year-on-year and in 2011 increasing 34 per cent.
Since 2001, Cambodia has been a beneficiary of the Everything But Arms (EBA) initiative, which is part of the EU’s generalized system of preferences and which grants virtually all products excepts arms and ammunition duty-free and quota-free access into the EU market. However, the industry lacks a strong textile manufacturing base, and operates largely in the final phases of garment production — mainly cut, sew and trim — and imports almost all of its fabric, which is supplied mostly by China as well as other Asian countries.
Cambodia benefits from duty-free and quota-free access to the EU and the United States as well as to many other major world markets though the country may receive less preferential economic treatment from Europe in the coming years as it becomes more developed.
China's Xinjiang region has planned a fund of 20 billion yuan to support its textile and clothing industry. The fund will be part of a package to increase employment and incomes and maintain social stability. The central government will contribute part of the fund and Xinjiang will raise the rest.
Apart from funding textile industrial parks and clothing factories, Xinjiang will subsidize local cotton and electricity in qualified textile industrial parks. The region will adopt strict environmental protection standards and control energy consumption during the process. The abundant energy resources in Xinjiang are expected to help enterprises integrate their industrial chain and tap new markets. More textile companies are expected to open production lines there and use more local cotton to reduce costs. Xinjiang will give special support to projects related to cotton textiles, printing, dyeing and finishing, hand-crafted carpets and knitting.
According to a 10-year textile development plan, 4,20,000 jobs will be created with an industrial output of about 86 billion yuan by 2018 and one million jobs and 212.5 billion yuan of output by 2023. The fund will favor southern areas of Xinjiang. Clothing and tapestry factories there will enjoy free or low rents for a designated period. In northwest China, Xinjiang now produces about 60 per cent of China’s raw cotton.
The Autumn edition of Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles will be held from August 27 to 29. This is China’s leading home textiles fair, where one can find the latest textile and accessory products. It will feature over 1,400 exhibitors from more than 30 countries.
The China Home Textile Trend Forum will present four themes for the 2015 trends. The International Lifestyle Trend Forum is led by an international committee of trendsetters and designers to understand the cultural differences in the Chinese market. The China Intangible Cultural Heritage of Home Textile and Handicraft display area will also illustrate to buyers the popularity of traditional products in the domestic market.
New to this year’s fair is the Home Decoration Trend Area. This is a practical display area which illustrates international trend themes in detail using the complete range of home textile products. Expanding on this concept, and targeted towards interior and soft decoration designers, is the Interior Design and Soft Decoration Forum. A number of seminars will also take place related to the Chinese market under the topics of design and trends and market information.
As the number of high wealth consumers in China continues to grow, home textile suppliers are launching custom-made product lines. Textile products are being thought of as fashion elements in the home. Curtains, for example, now feature 3D embroidery, organza and burnout fabrics.
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Pakistan’s textile exports to the European Union increased by 18 per cent this fiscal year but exports to the rest of the world registered negative growth of 3.5 per cent. Acute energy shortage has badly hindered Pakistan’s exports growth. A large number of textile units have shut operations due to energy constraints. Textile exporters say they will not be able to get complete benefit from duty-free access to the European Union unless the government takes serious measures to ensure a regular supply of gas and electricity to run the manufacturing units and resolve the energy shortage.
The government has been urged to redesign and bring consistency in policies on taxes, reverse the declining trend of investment in the textile sector, bring interest rates down and release the liquidity on drawbacks and refunds. With better access to the EU market, Pakistan is expected to add at least a $1 billion in textile exports every year and reach the $25 billion mark in five years.
Pakistan is due to come out with a textile policy. Manufacturers say it should encapsulate the entire textile spectrum, providing directions for financial and industrial facilities as well as removing hurdles and providing the necessary incentives to the value-added sector to enhance textile exports.
Weavers in Faisalabad, Pakistan, have threatened to close units after Id due to prolonged hours of power outages that have adversely affected their business. In Faisalabad, there are 2,50,000 power looms installed in 3,000 factories and 75,000 auto shuttle-less looms are installed in almost 1,000 factories. Thousands of families are linked with the weaving sector.
For a large part of the day, power looms in Faisalabad remain unproductive due to severe load shedding, which lasts up to 12 hours. Every day at least two or three units shut down to prevent heavy losses due to load shedding. Owners have to pay salary to their staff at a time when there is no production.
The electricity is available only six to eight hours a day, but the bill comes up to the cost of running the looms for 24 hours. As a result, several weavers have been forced to close their units. So industrialists are unable to use the exportable surplus for gaining the benefits of access to European markets under the GSP Plus facility.
Alternate sources of energy are very expensive and the use of generators pushes the input cost to Rs 35 per unit against the normal Rs 16 per unit.
Karl Mayer has opened a warp knitting factory in Ahmedabad. The factory will assemble creels, used most frequently for warp preparation in India. When successful, the capacity will gradually be expanded. The aim is to build other types of creel step-by-step for India and to obtain the necessary components, as far as possible, from domestic suppliers. To ensure the highest quality assembly work, experienced local service technicians were trained and are responsible for quality assurance, a strategy that has already proven to be successful in China.
If successful, the company can offer customers all the advantages of local production, meaning delivery times, customer specific solutions and favorable acquisition costs, without any of the tax disadvantages associated with imports. By the end of December 2014, the Karl Mayer Academy India will move from Surat to Ahmedabad. By concentrating service activities the company hopes to achieve synergies. In April 2015, and on a smaller scale, an open house event for Karl Mayer customers will follow. The company plans to present a warping machine, a wider MJ model, as well as some tricot machines.
India enjoyed a share of roughly 4 per cent of Karl Mayer’s proceeds in 2013. Roughly 80 per cent of all installed tricot and raschel machines in India derive from Karl Mayer.
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Pakistan has a plan to revive its sick textile units. Debt-restructuring facility will be offered to them. It’s estimated that if these closed units are made operational an additional one lakh workers will get jobs of which about 30,000 will be women. Pakistan hopes this will also help regain international customers who over the years have been importing from rival markets.
Moody’s International has upgraded Pakistan’s credit rating from negative to stable. It’s hoped this improvement in grading will persuade international importers to buy their products from Pakistan.
Revival of sick units is the top priority of the government in order to fully harvest the benefit of GSP Plus and to provide jobs to the unemployed. Revival of textile units in Faisalabad alone can help fetch a $1 billion in foreign exchange in addition to creating about 80,000 jobs. These units have spent billions of rupees on their infrastructure and machinery and are in a position to start operation as soon as the running finance is made available.
There is a plan to add value to Pakistani textile products. Activation of idle capacity in the value added textile sector is a major challenge for Pakistan. Right now Pakistan is only extracting about $5 dollars from one kg of cotton but the government is planning to get more than $15 dollars from a kg through value addition.
