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China’s textile makers are said to be moving away from the recycled polyethylene terephthalate (R-PET) market, as their production margins continue to shrink despite falling raw material prices, indicated market insiders.
On November 3, 2015, prices of clear/white hot-washed R-PET flakes with polyvinyl chloride (PVC) content of 300-1,000 ppm (parts per million) flakes were assessed at $575/ton CFR (cost and freight) China, according to ICIS data. Prices have remained soft after hitting $560/ton CFR China – the lowest since ICIS started tracking the market three years ago – on September 1, 2015, the data showed.
According to a downstream Chinese textile manufacturer, the company has stopped production of recycled polyester due to weak margins after considering upstream and downstream conditions. The producer has also stopped making polyester from virgin PET fibre sighting sustainability issues and is focusing on nylon production.
China is a major import market for R-PET flakes with 300-1,000 ppm polyvinyl chloride (PVC) content, which is used mainly in the production of recycled polyester. In September, China’s total R-PET imports were down 8.6 per cent year on year at 173,818 tons, China Customs data showed.
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The Government of India held the annual conference of state textiles ministers November 4, 2015 to assess the existing position and formulate strategy for exploiting the potential of the textile sector. The Conference was chaired by Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State for textiles.
Ministers in charge of textiles from nine states including Bismita Gogoi (Assam), Chander Prakash (Jammu & Kashmir), H. Rohluna (Mizoram), Amenba Yaden (Nagaland), Snehangini Chhuria (Odisha), Gajendra Singh Khimsar (Rajasthan), S. Gokul Indira (Tamil Nadu), Brahma Sankar Tripathi (Uttar Pradesh), Jupally Krishna Rao (Telangana) and B.D. Chakma (Mizoram) attended the conference. Apart from ministers of these nine states, senior officials of 16 other states too participated in the conference.
Addressing the delegates, Gangwar said that since the last conference in September 2014, the government has intensified its focus on improving governance and service delivery to the common man in the textile sector. He said that to this end, the government has endeavoured to maintain close liaison with state governments for supporting the textile industry, with a view to promoting production and employment in various segments of the sector.
He also highlighted successful initiatives in the areas of textile parks, apparel and garment making centres in the North Eastern Region, handloom promotion, cotton procurement, skill development and turnaround of National Textiles Corporation, to name a few. He invited suggestions from the states in meeting national development goals the nation has set for itself.
The minister also launched the revamped website of the Ministry of Textiles: texmin.nic.in. The redesigned website is more user-friendly, allowing for easy navigation; it is disabled-friendly and has multi-language support as well. The website provides information on all aspects of the textile sector, such as sectoral developments, schemes, initiatives and has links to all attached offices, subordinate offices, PSUs, statutory bodies and export promotion councils under the ministry.
S. K. Panda, Secretary (Textiles) gave a brief presentation on various schemes, programmes and initiatives being undertaken by the ministry, for the promotion of Indian textile sector. He outlined the vision and strategy of the government for the textile sector, based on the philosophy of ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikaas’. He also highlighted achievements of the ministry.
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ITMACH India in association with Textile Excellence is organising ITMACH Bhiwandi 2015. The event has already proved its reach and reputation across the textile manufacturing hub in India following the success of its premiere edition in Ahmedabad.
With its motto 'To bring textile machinery manufacturers closer to their customers', ITMACH Bhiwandi in its 2nd edition aims at bringing together visitors and exhibitors from all sectors of the industry within India and neighbouring countries. The event aims to create conducive business environment, generate business ideas and create investment opportunities in the Indian market.
Scheduled to be held from December 17 to 19, 2015, it will showcase a wide range of latest textile machinery and technology at Indian Corporation premises in Bhiwandi, on the outskirts of Mumbai. The timing of the show is crucial as this is the first textile technology show in the country, after the much-awaited ITMA 2015.
Over 125 exhibitors, primarily, machinery and technology providers from the post-spinning, weaving preparatory, weaving, dyeing, printing and processing as well as garmenting sectors have booked the space at the show. With investment decisions expected to get finalised post-ITMA, ITMACH Bhiwandi 2015, will play the role of a catalyst. The show is expected to attract over 30,000 visitors from across the country.
The exhibition is supported by leading industry associations including PDEXCIL, SASMIRA, SDC, China Textile Machinery Association. The exhibition has garnered the support of leading textile industry media. In addition, local textile manufacturers associations of Bhiwandi and around have extended their cooperation and extensive support to make ITMACH 2015 a successful show.
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The Indian textile and apparel industry is cutting down on the number of jobs due to the global economic slowdown. Job creation in the apparel and textile industry dropped 70 per cent in the quarter ended March 2015 as compared to the December 2014 quarter. A lot of handloom and power loom units shut down or had their capacities slashed to half in the last few months because of policies like withdrawal of interest subvention and duty drawbacks.
Yarn and fabric verticals have trouble dealing with excess stock and inventory pile-up as China has reduced cotton yarn imports from India. This too has resulted in a decline in capacity by five to ten per cent and a fall in job creation.
The apparel sector has almost stopped expansion work. Slowdown in exports has damped outlook. And the domestic market, too, is not booming. There has been hardly a seven to eight per cent growth in recent times and this rate of growth does not require any expansion to be made. So there has been no expansion on the labor front as well. However, the apparel industry still hopes to bounce back after November with an increase in exports.
Tamil Nadu’s yarn manufacturers are making investments to go one notch up in fabrics and win better deals from Indian and foreign buyers. Nearly 25 mills have either installed knitting machines or moved towards complete garmenting. The mills have been encouraged by the Center's recent export incentive push.
Textile items such as fabrics and synthetic textiles, which are facing Chinese import onslaught in India, have been included in the export incentive list that includes pharmaceuticals, auto components, telecom and transport equipment. In Tamil Nadu, big garment makers are into reverse expansion to set up their own yarn units. But the reverse was not happening much, because there was a risk of holding inventory without knowing whether there would be a buyer. But now the central government incentive has brightened possibilities of forward integration.
Tamil Nadu boasts of a yarn manufacturing capacity of 2.25 crore spindles but only a handful have pumped in money to become fabric manufacturers. In terms of expenditure for a textile unit that wants to diversify, a knitting machine from Taiwan costs Rs 15 lakh while an European import will cost Rs 25 lakh. With additional costs into labor, power, marketing and so on, a bid to move up for an average textile mill will cost Rs 3 crores.
India, the world’s biggest cotton producer, is likely to export 6.8 million bales in the 2015-16 season, up 18 per cent from a year ago as demand from Asia is expected to improve. Higher exports will cap global prices but raise domestic prices and help bring down government purchases at the support price. India is expecting higher demand from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Vietnam. This will offset poor demand from China.
In 2014-15 season, Bangladesh surpassed China to become India’s top buyer of the fiber as the world’s biggest consumer began cutting import quotas to stimulate demand for domestic cotton after it halted a state stockpiling program. China has in recent years taken more than half of cotton exports, propping up prices despite a record output. In 2014-15 exports dropped 51 per cent from a year ago after China halved imports.
In 2015 India suffered its first back-to-back droughts in three decades, hitting yields of summer-sown crops like cotton, rice and soybeans. Higher exports amid a drop in production would bring down closing stocks for the 2015-16 season to 3.8 million bales, down 27 per cent from a year ago. Cotton consumption in the new season is expected to edge up 1.7 per cent to 32.3 million bales.
The 11th edition of Interfilière Shanghai was held from October 12 to 13, 2015. The two-day event successfully showcased latest, innovative information from intimates, swimwear and leisurewear industries.
Around 220 exhibitors from 15 countries including Austria, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States and Vietnam, introduced their products and business opportunities to the industry. Almost 76 per cent of the visitors came from Mainland China maintaining the same global proportion as last year. Vietnam marked its entry in the new top 10 visiting countries. Australia as well as Thailand boosted their ranking respectively. Most of the Chinese visitors came from Shanghai while the number of Guangdong visitors slightly dropped.
Exhibitors appreciate quality of visitors
This edition of Interfilière Shanghai was highly appreciated by Untitledsdexhibitors for the good quality of the visitors. “Interfilière Shanghai 2015 was a great success. A lot of buyers showed positive interests in our products and exchanged ideas. With good security arrangements and a convenient environment, the exhibition has given us a great opportunity to exhibit our products and a platform to show our potential,” said Chim, Director of Takefast.
Lin, Vice President of Fujian Donglong Knitting & Textile opined, during these two days, the company’s team members were very busy. “We will be exhibiting again next year, ” he added. “I am satisfied with the quantity of the visitors. Most of our old customers are from domestic market. This year, we have seen more of our old customers onsite than last year. We will attend the show next year,” reiterated Zheng, Vice General Manager of Fujian Changle Xinmei Knitting Textile Co.
Intriguing trends preview and Mouv’Innovation Forum
Interfilière Shanghai in collaboration with Concepts Paris once again introduced a preview of the 2017 Spring/Summer trends. The 270m2 trend forum has attracted wide attentions from visitors. It was a real feast of colours, textures and ideas illustrating the multitude of exciting development in the world of lingerie, beach and athleisure.
Fashion, sport and health are definitively the key words we need to keep in mind for the lingerie of tomorrow. In partnership with the Federation de la Maille et de la Lingerie, Interfilière Shanghai brought to visitors and exhibitors the ‘Mouv’Innovation Forum’ highlighting technical and innovative textiles and accessories for high performance application in the sports and medical fields. Following the great success of this new interactive forum on Interfilière Paris last July, the Mouv’Innovation Forum has been a great interest for visitors from Interfilière Shanghai. Visitors were quite curious about the technical aspect of some fabrics such as the microencapsulation process for cosmetotextiles.
The forum displayed fabrics of our exhibitors with different properties such as quick drying, thermoregulation, compression, bistretch, resistance to abrasion or UV, breathable, antibacterial, cosmetotextile… and were illustrated by finished products like sports bra with moisture management (quick drying), sports leggings with thermoregulation, knee pad with warming and anti-pain properties.
The aim of the forum and the Mouv’Innovation leaflet was to help visitors and exhibitors understand the market, the technicity and the innovations of the world of sports and medical lingerie.
Seven exhibiting companies honoured
For the second time, Interfilière Shanghai rewarded the know-how and collections of seven exhibiting companies. Interfeel’Award – Embroidery was given to Liberty Tex (Taiwan), the leading supplier of embroidered fabrics, trim and accessories. The company commercialises its products for interior design, lingerie and ready-to-wear industries. Awarded for its development on ready-to-wear and lingerie industries, Liberty Tex has an expert knowledge on various embroidery techniques.
Interfeel’Award – Lace was awarded to Gayoulace (China). Founded in 1998 in China, Gayoulace is known for the research, design, promotion, techniques, production and marketing of lace and lace fabrics. Interfeel’Award – Accessories was conferred to Takefast (Hong Kong). Founded in Hong Kong in 2007, Takefast is a large size company specialized in developing and manufacturing elastic bands. The company is focused on the international intimate apparel market.
Interfeel’Award – OEM-ODM went to Tengfei (China). Founded in 1997 in China, Tengfei manufactures innovative products (seamless underwear, cup mold development) for the lingerie industry. Focused on the process research, the company is recognized worldwide and enjoys a high reputation in overseas markets. Interfeel’Award – Fabrics went to K-Boxing Warp Knitting (China). Founded in 2001 in China, the company is specialised in the development, production and sales of high-end warp knitting fabrics. The company is an internationally renowned brand supplier in the lingerie, swimwear, casual wear industries and other fields.
Interfeel’Award – Fabrics/Prints was given to Suzhou Famous Textile (China). Founded in 2014 in China, Famous Textile is a new-founded autonomous brand, which comes into vogue with its own design team. The company is developed on the underwear and swimming suits industry. Awarded for the creativity of the prints, the company produces a variety of high quality fabrics and caters to different markets such as ready-to-wear, beachwear and lingerie.
Interfeel’Award – Coup de cœur Europe was awarded to Muehlmeier (Germany. Founded in 1945, it is a recognised brand in the development, production, innovation and sales of bra-cups for the lingerie and swimwear industry. The company is also specialised in shoulder pads and art deco body styling adornments.
Denim Premiere Vision will be held in Spain on November 18 and 19, 2015. This will showcase the best in premium denim and latest innovations. The event is aimed at the entire global chain of upscale and creative jeans wear. This edition will have 87 exhibitors weavers, manufacturers, launderers, finishers, accessory makers, fiber producers and spinners, technology developers and promotional organizations. They constitute the bulk of the value chain of worldwide denim production and manufacture.
Visitors will comprise premium and high end fashion and jeans wear brands, designers and major luxury names. The show will offer know-how and developments from leading jeans wear players in countries like Turkey, Italy, Spain, Morocco as well as Japan, France, Germany, Pakistan and Hong Kong.
Seminars will highlight seasonal influences and a preview of spring/summer ’17. There will be insights on product development, production, technological innovations, finishing, style and construction of collections including marketing and sales challenges.
This event will also present the strategies and actions put in place by Denim Première Vision to better respond to the new issues of responsibility in the sector. Denim Première Vision brings together an unique and rigorously selected offer reflecting the global premium denim market.
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At ITMA Milan, Spanish company, Jeanologia, specialist in sustainable technologies for garment finishing, is set to make an exclusive presentation. It will be presenting the Zero Discharge Production Center, the first Jeans finishing plant that guarantees zero contamination. This technology eliminates the need for water treatment and also the use of Pumice stone as it recycles 100 per cent of the water used.
For the first time ever, a denim treatment plant will achieve zero waste, all because of the efficient combination of Jeanologia’s three technologies, the light of the laser, wet and dry Ozone G2, and the nano bubbles of the reactor eFlow. Thus, the Zero Discharge Production Center will revolutionise the textile industry.
Jeanologia is able to present the first ever Jeans finishing plant that recycles water and avoids any use of pumice stone, optimising the complete process yet with zero concessions on the ‘final look’ after 20 years of research and development of technological solutions for the industry. The combination of the company’s laser, G2, and eFlow technologies reduces water consumption by 90 per cent, the use of chemicals by 90 per cent and energy consumption by 50 per cent.
With ZERO, Jeanologia is making advances in the optimisation of production processes, in the reduction of waiting times, and in the adaptation to large and smaller scale production. The company’s innovations have already made it a leader in sustainable and efficient solutions for the garment finishing sector.
The third denim expo will be held in Bangladesh from November 11 to 12. The theme this time is sustainable denim. The aim is to promote Bangladesh’s brands to the global market and share knowledge with international producers to get acquainted with the latest technologies. The primary purpose is to create a platform for denim stakeholders and to make Bangladesh a one stop sourcing platform for the denim industry.
The two-day event will feature a trend zone displaying new and future denim trends. In addition, there will be a unique range of seminars and a panel discussion to provide insights into topical issues of the industry.
In all, 41 companies are participating in the expo, an increase from 25 participants from the previous expo. Among them, 27 are international companies from China, India, Pakistan, US, Turkey, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Singapore and Germany. Bangladesh is currently the second largest denim exporter to Europe, after China and the third largest to the US, after China and Mexico. In addition to shipping to the US and Europe, Bangladeshi denim producers have found markets in countries like China, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan and Russia.
Denim exports from Bangladesh could reach $7 dollars by 2021, up from the current $3.5 billion, giving a huge boost to the country’s overall export earnings.
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