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ApparelSourcing Paris is gearing up for its 7th show, from September 15 to 18 2014 with an optimistic outlook. There has been an increase in the number of registrations compared with last September, also from returning exhibitors. The European rendezvous for sourcing expects to welcome more than 200 international exhibitors, a rise of 10 per cent compared to last year.
In view of the exhibition's growth and to improve overall clarity of the offer, the organisers plan to introduce a new classification of products, under three categories: essential, specific and expert. Major manufacturing countries like China, Bangladesh, India, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Turkey and Vietnam have already confirmed their attendance to show their new products and solutions to European buyers.
Buyers will have a wide variety of collections and a whole range of services to choose from. Starting with the standard CMT to development of bespoke products for knits, dresses and blouses, casual wear, sportswear, denim, shirting, suiting, outerwear, evening wear, lounge wear, business wear, formal wear, swim wear, corporate wear and accessories. Made-to-measure, bespoke finishing on a single-piece basis, will be exclusive feature to existing ranges offered at the exhibition.
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Vietnam's Ministry of Industry and Trade has ratified a textile and garment industry development plan for 2020, including a vision for 2030. The plan is aimed at boosting the growth of the textile industry. It lays out a series of milestones to be reached. With respect to localization rate within the industry, the government has set the goals of 55 per cent by 2015, 65 per cent by 2020 and 70 per cent by 2030.
The development plan also pushes for an annual production growth rate of 12 to 13 per cent during 2013 to 2020. The annual export goal is 10 to 11 per cent from 2013-2015 and 19 to 21 per cent annual growth for the 2016-2020 period; with 25 to 28 per cent annual growth for the 2021-2030 period. The export turnover is predicted to reach $40 billion during the 2020 to 2025 period. This will require 12 billion sq. mt. of fabric and five million workers.
The domestic market is estimated to see a growth rate of 9 to 10 per cent during the 2013-2015 period and 10 to 12 per cent during the 2016-2020 period. Vietnam’s textile industry is playing an increasingly large role in the country’s economy. The products are exported to over 50 countries around the world, with the US as the largest importer.
Textile World, the leading trade magazine for the US textile industry, has awarded the 2014 Innovation Award to TenCate Protective Fabrics. TenCate is a manufacturer of high-performance fabric solutions that are used to make a variety of protective garments used by military personnel, firefighters, and other emergency response personnel. The company was selected to receive the award because of its long-standing commitment to innovation in the textile industry and its development of fabrics that are truly life-saving.
TenCate is a 90-year-old multinational company based in Georgia. It combines textile technology with related chemical processes. It develops and produces specialist materials with specific properties like protective materials for fire-fighting clothing, strong, lightweight materials in aircraft and materials that block UV radiation.
TenCate Protective Fabrics protect people on the job from the harmful effects of heat, flame and other related risks. The primary applications in which the products are used include structural firefighting, wild land fire fighting and many industrial areas such as chemical, petrochemical, electrical and molten processing. Textile World magazine and TextileWorld.com are leading resources for textile news and information - from textile fiber to fabric formation and finishing.
Coats and UK-based GSD (General Sewing Data) have entered a strategic alliance. GSD, supplies expert management solutions that analyse time, cost and production capability in the sewn products sector with a focus on maximising productivity and controlling costs. Coats is the world’s leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts business. One in five garments on the planet is held together using Coats’ thread. Coats produces enough yarn to knit 70 million scarves a year. It is the second largest and fastest growing global zip manufacturer.
Coats and GSD will collaborate on offering their respective management solutions to maximise productivity and drive down costs in the manufacturing sector, with GSD providing time-cost benchmarking and Coats offering consulting and technical production expertise, for retailers, brands and their supply chain vendors.
A key element in this process will be to analyse working methods and manufacturing procedures, including machinery and associated equipment requirements, to provide internationally accepted and globally recognised GSD based Standard Minute Values (SMV). The SMV is invaluable to brands and manufacturers worldwide as it facilitates fact based decisions on multiple aspects of production, including unit cost, production targets, operator performance, factory efficiency, wage levels, location and ethical sourcing, as well as identifying thread demand and highlighting potential improvements in productivity.
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The European Union has funded a project aimed at supporting the textile industry in Egypt. The Ted Med Cluster project will attract investments, transfer technologies and modern management methods and increase exports. It will work toward environmental sustainability at the basic level and better conditions and modalities of persons, goods and capital.
The EU is Egypt’s the first trade partner and the source of more than 60 per cent of direct foreign investments to the country. The countries participating in the program are: Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Palestinian Authority, Portugal, Spain, Syria and Tunisia.
European partners in the project include the Italian Industries Federation, Spanish Textile Association and the Technical Centre for Textiles, which will cooperate with the Sustainable Textile Mediterranean Network to provide the technical assistance.
The Egyptian textile industry is known for its fine long fiber cotton. Egypt and the US are the only producers of long and extra long staple cotton. The textile industry is one of the most important sources of foreign exchange in Egypt. The industry accounts for 30 per cent of Egypt's industrial production, 15 per cent of its non petroleum exports and 30 per cent of local employment. Egypt has a number of competitive advantages, competitive labor costs and locally available raw materials.
Over the years, Thermore, the thermal insulation experts, has continued to dedicate a large share of its investments towards R&D of new technologies in apparel insulation. This year Thermore has unveiled a revolutionary EVOdown concept that delivers a compelling and effective down effect.
Over the years, the escalating cost of duck and goose down, issues of animal welfare and lack of quality control have forced the apparel industry to find alternatives. Commonly, blown-in fibers and fiber balls initially deliver similar softness and high-loft down like appearance. These fibers are blown inside the garment in a similar manner as down feathers are applied. However, this often comes with stability limitations, fiber clumping issues, heavy fiber migration and the development of cold spots, often after a relatively short care time.
EVOdowns inspired by the soft hand and lofty nature of natural blown-in down or fiber ball production techniques matches all this without compromising durability. Two external higher density layers encapsulate the free fibers in the middle. The result of this composite is to reduce clumping and fiber migration, ensuring a very consistent, high thermal performance throughout the entire garment. Thermore EVOdown maintains its structure over time and can be machine washed and dried.
EVOdown is offered in three weights to best suit every design requirement from ultra-light jackets to high-puff parkas. Best finish and performance results recommend EVOdown be quilted with test approved down-proof, ultra-light fabrics (<30 gr) in a pattern of 5cm or smaller for the 80g and 115g weights, and 10cm or smaller for the 170g weight.
Thermore was founded in 1972 in Milan and is a worldwide leader in the research, production and marketing of thermal insulation for apparel with operations in Europe, USA and Asia including production facilities in Thailand and offices in Hong Kong.
Thermore.com
Spanish company Jeanologia would be showcasing its new technology ‘Dynamic Laser & Eco’ that uses laser and ozone during first stages of production, at the Denim by PV Barcelona to be held from May 21, 2014. The laser dynamic and G2 dynamic machines transfers sustainable technologies to continuous fabric, saving water, energy and chemicals.
Over 20 years of experience and the prestigious WGSN Global Fashion Award for best sustainable design team in the world, Jeanologia has positioned itself as a world leader in the development of sustainable technologies for garments finishing. Currently, the company is working on applying its know-how in garment finishing to the previous stages of the manufacturing process.
The new technology is designed to treat all types of fabrics, from heavy to light, with any structure. It, allows laser engraved on the continuous fabric garments besides aging effects by using ozone. The technology replaces the printing technique, to laser engraving, thus ensuring three-dimensionality.
The company will also display the G2 Dynamic technology that allows aging onto continuous fabric simply through the use of air, featuring different wear and tear on the fabric base with time passed by effect, which would not be reproducible by applying chemicals on conventional processes.
Denim by PV Barcelona, in its first edition, has chosen Jeanologia to create the vintage space area trends with its exhibition ‘Truth & Light’, illustrating the major advances that have been made with laser technology. The exhibition uses art, history and fashion to illustrate the major strides made in laser technology in recent years.
www.jeanologia.com
A new report titled, 'The Fibre Year 2014' states that worldwide fibre demand in 2013 exceeded 90 million tons or 4.4 per cent more than 2012. The per capita use of textile materials for clothing, home textiles, carpets, and technical textiles was earmarked at 12.7 kg. Continuing its growth, chemical fibres increased 5.7 per cent to 54.4 million tons on the back of strong growth of polyester and polyamide, whereas the volume growth of cellulosic fibres amounted to 10.4 per cent or about 6 million tons.
On the other hand, cotton demand increased marginally by 0.9 per cent to 23.6 million
tons. For the first time, worldwide stocks went over the 20 million ton mark, covering 85 per cent of demand. Wool continued its growth in the fourth year with a growth of 1.2 per cent.
The annual textile survey points out that massive investment is creating overcapacities and enormous challenges which will have to be met by non-integrated enterprises, in China and elsewhere. Those hit in the first line will be interim products for Polyester (PES), Paraxylene (PX) and Terephtalasid (PTA). The overcapacities, according to the survey, will lead to uneconomical capacity ratios putting pressure on prices and influencing other fibre segments.
As per latest WTO figures the Chinese industry has been consolidating its lead in fiber capacity investments. Total Chinese fiber exports increased 11.4 per cent to $284 billion, resulting in a trade surplus of $257 billion in 2013. Turkey and Bangladesh too saw aggressive growth. Vietnam saw good growth rate of better than 18 per cent to $20 billion. The Vietnamese industry will be in the textile sector through the TTP Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations led by the US.
The Fibre Year 2014, a world survey on textiles and nonwovens reports actual development of all important natural and chemical fibres as well as raw materials and nonwovens and with projections up to 2017. In addition there are 20 country profiles of leading producing and consuming nations, giving a true worldwide picture of the latest development in the textile industry, along with a chapter with an outlook and projections beyond 2020.
The American version of Techtextil took place May 13 to 15, 2014, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta. It was held in conjunction with the second edition of Texprocess Americas and the composites show JEC Americas. The combined events brought together raw material, equipment and technology suppliers, and niche start-ups in a collaborative atmosphere benefitting the technical textiles, sewn products, and composites industries. The international show included pavilions from Belgium, Germany, Italy, Portugal, China, and France. The Supply Chain USA, area of Texprocess saw a 50 per cent increase in number of exhibitors.
The Techtextil, Texprocess, and JEC exhibitions provided an eye-opening look at the innovative ideas being generated by the textile and sewn products industries to meet the challenges of rapidly-changing consumer demands and business conditions. Industry-transforming technologies were on display at the Cool Zone pavilion. Robotic sewing machines, 3D body scanners, and cloud-based technologies are changing the way the industry manufactures, communicates, and interfaces with consumers.
While US government cutbacks have adversely affected military programs, US textile mills are finding additional business in technically-oriented markets such as active wear, team sports, uniforms, health and medical, safety apparel, and the growing area of energy and petrochemicals.
The next Techtextil North America will be held in Houston, Texas, June 2 to 4, 2015.
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The American version of Techtextil took place May 13 to 15, 2014, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta. It was held in conjunction with the second edition of Texprocess Americas and the composites show JEC Americas. The combined events brought together raw material, equipment and technology suppliers, and niche start-ups in a collaborative atmosphere benefitting the technical textiles, sewn products, and composites industries. The international show included pavilions from Belgium, Germany, Italy, Portugal, China, and France. The Supply Chain USA, area of Texprocess saw a 50 per cent increase in number of exhibitors.
The Techtextil, Texprocess, and JEC exhibitions provided an eye-opening look at the innovative ideas being generated by the textile and sewn products industries to meet the challenges of rapidly-changing consumer demands and business conditions. Industry-transforming technologies were on display at the Cool Zone pavilion. Robotic sewing machines, 3D body scanners, and cloud-based technologies are changing the way the industry manufactures, communicates, and interfaces with consumers.
While US government cutbacks have adversely affected military programs, US textile mills are finding additional business in technically-oriented markets such as active wear, team sports, uniforms, health and medical, safety apparel, and the growing area of energy and petrochemicals.
The next Techtextil North America will be held in Houston, Texas, June 2 to 4, 2015.
https://techtextil-northamerica-us.messefrankfurt.com/atlanta/.../about_te
