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PrimaLoft’s Insulation Eco fleet features three varieties of sustainable synthetic insulation—PrimaLoft Gold Insulation Eco, PrimaLoft Silver Insulation Eco and PrimaLoft Black Insulation Eco—that contain recycled fibers. With its range of Insulation Eco products, PrimaLoft aims to reduce outerwear’s carbon footprint and enable outdoor brands to take part in a more circular economy.
PrimaLoft historically has post-consumer recycled content within its insulation. Silver Insulation Eco and Black Insulation Eco have been in the product line for quite some time. Gold Insulation Eco is an update to PrimaLoft Gold Insulation that features 55 per cent post-consumer recycled content. PrimaLoft Gold Insulation Eco possesses the same high performance capabilities of PrimaLoft Gold Insulation—including breathability, compressibility, softness and superior warm-to-wet ratios, with a more circular markup. The insulation is designed to protect consumers in the most extreme weather conditions, possessing similar qualities to down without the negative environmental footprint.
PrimaLoft’s mission is to deliver high-performance and sustainable insulation solutions. PrimaLoft is making moves to continue incorporating more sustainable materials, including post-consumer recycled content, throughout its entire insulation product line. The company also has a host of other eco-friendly insulation products, including PrimaLoft Black Insulation Eco and PrimaLoft Silver Insulation Eco. Black Insulation Eco combines advanced fiber technology and 60 per cent post-consumer recycled material. Silver Insulation Eco is made using 70 per cent recycled fiber technology, a proprietary water repellent treatment and high-performance capabilities.
From next February, the Parisian textile and yarn trade shows run by Première Vision Paris, PV Fabrics and PV Yarns, will have a new exhibitor stand concept, designed to ‘urbanise the shows and their forums.’ The 811 exhibitors at the PV Fabrics show and their 44 counterparts at PV Yarns, both scheduled from February 13 to 15, will benefit from stands with rounded, matt wall panels designed to integrate monitor screens. Lighting will be through a system of ultra-streamlined lamp-stands. Designer Ora-Ïto, who was commissioned to create new exhibition spaces, explains, "The new stands are a unique combination of all of Première Vision's signature values: aesthetic research, use of new technology and environmental awareness."
Interiors make-over will synch with reorganisation of their forums and information areas. The central forum, PV Perspectives, will now be aligned with the main entrance of exhibition Hall 5. Each of the shows' other themed sections will have its own 'Selection' forum, with the addition of the Tech Focus and Jewel Focus areas in halls 6 and 4. Première Vision Paris will host 1,725 companies, of which 113 are new entries, from around fifty different countries.
Mimaki’s new UCJV series of print-and-cut machines offers a versatile solution to production. The range comprises the UCJV 150-160 and the UCJV 300-160 with the devices featuring a combined function of both printing and cutting mounted with UV-curable ink.
The UCJV 300-160 is the faster of the two new models, with the ability to print at speeds of up to 25.8 sq m/hr at a top resolution of 1200dpi. The machine can also offer four-layers print and can run with the new, environmentally-friendly UV inks LUS-170 and LUS-175. Features on the UCJV 300-160 include four-layer day/night printing, which enables designers to build layered graphics for backlit applications. This process gives print companies the opportunity to offer a unique product. It's possible to produce a dynamic graphic that morphs its image or color scheme depending on the light source.
Meanwhile the UCJV 150-160 can reach a top speed of 13.4sq m/hr and boasts many of the same features as its sister machine, including productive cutting functions such as the new option ID Cut, which helps improve the overall efficiency of work.
The integrated cutting functionality on the printers enables users to create applications including labels, decals, window clings, floor graphics, POP displays, vehicle markings, packaging and prototypes in a single unit.
Mexico will not be left out in the dark if the US decides to call it quits on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Mexico has been working to put its eggs in baskets other than the one belonging to the United States. The country could reach a framework for a trade deal with the European Union in the next two weeks provided both sides can reach accord on things like agriculture exports, investment dispute settlement and rules of origin.
NAFTA talks have been tied up largely over US demands to up the input of American raw materials in cars. Mexico and the EU already have an agreement that has cut tariffs on goods like cars and machinery since 2000, and both sides agreed in 2015 to deepen their trade relationship. If this deal goes forward, it would free up trade in sectors like e-commerce and agriculture. But mostly it would lessen Mexico’s dependence on the US.
Apart from cozying up to the EU, Mexico and Canada have vowed to keep NAFTA going even if the US bows out. Mexico has also been in discussions with China about a trade deal. The EU has also been expanding its trade relations and is in talks for a deal with Japan and Canada.
Advance Denim uses Invista fibre science to create international demand for its quality fabrics. Leading Asian, European and US brands source from this 30-year-old Chinese producer, because of its assured quality and fabric innovation. Advance Denim’s General Manager Wang Zongwen attributes the company’s success to their strategic partner INVISTA. She says, the market insights it shares and the innovative technologies in its portfolio have helped them to achieve one breakthrough after another on their way to becoming one of the world’s most innovative producers of high quality denim. The productive partnership between the two began in year 2000 following the development of fabrics incorporating the benefits of Lycra T400 fibre.
Advance Denim was first to market a generation of products that introduced Asian consumers to new standards of comfort, superior performance and wear characteristics. Continuous process improvements over the next two decades led to the 2016 launch of 360° bi-stretch fabrics that use Lycra dualFX technology. Advance Denim enabled its brand and retail customers to set new standards in Asian markets and its international reach had grown to help meet demand for better differentiated products worldwide.
Advance Denim is a 100 per cent specifier of Lycra elastane products and a member of Lycra Exchange, a strategic partnership program that enables close collaboration between Invista and a selected mills who share its commitment to creating consumer access to the benefits of state-of-the-art fabrics.
It began with cotton cultivation, over the years the Turkish textile segment has become an export industry. The export of Turkish yarn and fibre products has increased in recent years following huge investments made in the industry. Turkey is among the most important producers of cotton as well as yarn manufacturing and processing countries in the world. The yarn industry continues to increase its value of exports with value-added products such as customised, high-performance products and eco-friendly yarns.
Given this background, the 15th International Istanbul Yarn Fair is set to open its doors from April 14-17, 2018 at the Tüyap Fair Convention and Congress Centre where it will bring the yarn and fibre industries together. Participants who wish to export their goods to Europe and worldwide will get a chance to showcase their innovations and establish new partnerships as well as strengthen the image of their brand.
Visitors will have the opportunity to view cotton yarn, combed cotton yarn, polyester yarn, acrylic yarns, woollen yarn, fibres and many other kinds of yarn from different parts of the world as well as meet suppliers. To be held with the participation of the world’s leading manufacturers of textile machinery, ITM 2018 - International Textile Machinery Exhibition will take place on the same dates as the International Istanbul Yarn Fair between.
Zimbabwe’s clothing industry is being weighed down by an influx of cheap imports and shrinking markets. The industry employs just 7000 people.
A budget proposal to increase duty on cotton fabrics to 30 per cent is seen as a wrong move. The fear is that this would lead to an increase in the cost of production of a garment by about 50 per cent to 60 per cent rendering the local manufacturer as totally uncompetitive.
Textile companies in Zimbabwe don’t have the foreign currency for importing raw materials.
The country is facing a serious shortage of foreign currency. US dollars are being sold in the black market at exorbitant rates.
Textile production has been greatly affected. Units can’t access the foreign currency needed for importing vital raw materials such as yarn, dyes and chemicals.
The apparel sector in Zimbabwe currently operates at less than 30 per cent of its capacity. Zimbabwe is flooded with cheap textile and apparel imports from Asian countries, especially from China. These low-priced textile and apparel imports have had a negative impact on the manufacturing sector in Zimbabwe. Textile and apparel manufacturers want a ban on imports of cheap polyester knitted fabric and finished blankets.
Swedish clothing giant Hennes & Mauritz has said that their sales dropped below expectations in Q4 and correspondingly it would close more stores as customers preferences have moved towards shopping online. H&M CEO Karl-Johan Persson said in a statement that the company’s “online sales and sales of the group’s other brands continued to develop well” but that brick-and-mortar stores “were negatively affected by a continued challenging market situation with reduced footfall to stores due to the on-going shift in the industry.” Sales between September and November fell by four per cent as against the same period last year to 50.4 billion kronor (5.0 billion euros, $5.9 billion).
In local currency, sales dropped by two per cent. ”The numbers are really, really bad,” Joakim Bornold, an economist at the investment bank Nordnet, was reported to have said, “I can’t remember when H&M had a quarter in which the sales fell,” he added. In order to respond even quicker to customers’ fast-changing behaviour, the company’s on-going transformation journey is being accelerated,” Persson said. This includes continued integration of the physical and digital stores and intensifying the optimisation of the H&M brand’s store portfolio — leading to more store closure and fewer openings.
The textile chemical market in Europe is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 4.20 per cent between 2014 and 2020. Growing demand for hometech, mobiltech and clothtech chemicals will propel the market. The European textile chemical market is categorized into finishing agents, coating and sizing chemicals, colorants and auxiliaries, surfactants, bleaching agents, desizing agents, and yarn lubricants. Coating and sizing chemicals are the largest segment. However, the finishing agents segment is expected to display the fastest growth owing to the growing demand for high-quality fabrics.
On the basis of application, the market is segmented into indutech, sportech, mobiltech, buildtech, hometech, meditech, clothtech, protech, agrotech, packtech, and others including geotech and oekotech. Mobiltech accounts for a 25 per cent market share. The growth of the segment can be attributed to its extensive demand from industries such as railways, automotives, spacecraft, ships, and aircraft. Agrotech is expected to be the most rapidly developing application segment by 2020 owing to the extensive use of agrotech chemicals in horticulture, forestry, landscape gardening, floriculture, and agriculture. A rapid increase in the number of organic farms in Europe will further fuel the demand for agrotech chemicals.
However, growing environmental concerns will restrain the overall market. Some textile chemicals are also known to be carcinogenic. This has led to the emergence of bio-based alternatives that will hinder the growth of the market.
The digital printing market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 4.48 per cent between 2017 and 2023. Growing demand for sustainable printing, development of packaging and textile industries worldwide, and reduction in per unit cost of printing with digital printers are expected to drive the growth of the digital printing market worldwide.
The ink market for digital printing is expected to hold the largest share of the digital printing market between 2017 and 2023. The overall digital printing market includes the digital printer market, ink market for digital printing, and print head market. The ink market for digital printing has the largest share of the overall market owing to its extensive benefits in digital printing, since they are waterproof and UV-resistant, and do not have any significant environmental impact.
UV-cured ink is expected to hold the largest share between 2017 and 2023. UV-cured ink for digital printing is the fastest-growing segment, which offers various advantages such as quick drying, environment-friendly, low price, and resistance to UV rays, which are very important for printing on plastics, textiles, and others. As a result, UV-cured ink is increasingly replacing solvent ink despite being more expensive. North America held the largest share of the digital printing market in 2016.
