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Cordura has launched a fabric series in collaboration with leading Japanese bag brands. This is Cordura’s way of showing appreciation and support for Japanese craftsmanship. One collaboration is with CIE, a Japanese bag brand that has a military approach to carry solutions. Cordura’s NYCO fabric, which is used widely used in US military uniform applications, is integrated in CIE's designs. Cordura fabrics are used in products from apparel to bags, packs, and footwear.
In the first phase of the project, Cordura will release a video made in collaboration with a leading bag brand. Through close-up shots of the detailed work of artisans, from design planning to cutting and sewing, the video emphasizes the intricate detail and beauty of Japanese craftsmanship with Cordura fabric.
Cordura is a brand belonging to Invista and pushes the boundaries of durable fabric technology through its latest innovations, combined with forward-thinking collaborations with its supply chain and brand customers. Japanese craftsmanship has long been valued by the design world and Cordura has a deep appreciation for the Japanese market, which values high-quality, built-to-last products.
Invista is one of the world’s largest integrated producers of chemical intermediates, polymers and fibers and runs brands like Lycra, Coolmax, Cordura, Stainmaster and Antron.
The National Council of Textile Organisations (NCTO) has applauded the recent Section 301 tariff announcement by the Trump administration to resolve longstanding trade inequities with China. The organisation believes the administration’s continued focus on added tariffs on upstream textile inputs while thus far refusing to impose tariffs on finished Chinese textile home furnishing and apparel is flawed.
NCTO also thanked the Trump administration for removing various items from the latest retaliation list, including rayon fibre and certain dyes and chemicals. The US textiles industry requested the exclusion of these products because they are not available domestically and China is the only significant source of supply. NCTO is a Washington, DC-based non-for-profit trade association established to represent the full spectrum of the US textiles sector, from fibres to yarns to fabrics to finished products, as well as suppliers of numerous support services such as trucking, banking, chemicals, and other such sectors that have a stake in the prosperity and survival of the US textiles industry.
New York Denim Days will be held from September 22 to 23. The second annual show returns with a two-day shopping event and speaker series. The event connects denim professionals, designers and brands with denim consumers and brings together denim lovers in a festival atmosphere with vintage markets, live music, demonstrations, hands-on workshops and activities for children.
The event is sponsored by Tencel. Denim made with Tencel fibers will be front and center at New York Denim Days. The Tencel branded booth will be stocked with denim by Mavi, 3×1, Reformation and Paulita Carlotta and an exclusive Denim Days T-shirt made with Tencel branded lyocell fibers.
Rivet too has partnered Tencel for a collection of men’s jeans to be launched at Denim Days. The Edit Denim x Rivet collection pays homage to Americas. Stretch fabrications are made with cotton, spandex and Tencel from the US, and Mexico’s Kaltex produced the fabrics and garments.
The collection is based on two essential fits—slim and straight—and six washes. Minimal, matte finish hardware and dyed-to-match trims enhance the jeans’ premium hand feel. Exhibitors include Candiani, Hudson, Madewell and garment finisher Tonello, who will present art by Holly Brown and Juan Manuel Gomez, using 100 per cent recycled dyes produced by Officia+39.
India plans to impose anti-dumping duty of up to $4.83 per kg on Chinese flax yarn of below 70 lea. The duty will be imposed for five years to guard domestic players from cheap imports from the neighboring country. The recommended duty ranges between $1.30 per kg and $4.83 per kg. It is aimed at ensuring fair trading practices and creating a level-playing field for domestic producers with regard to foreign producers and exporters.
Flax yarn is used for making flax fabric, which has applications in apparel sector such as dresses, jackets, shirts and home textiles. The commerce ministry's investigation arm Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) has conducted a probe of alleged dumping of 'flax yarn of below 70 lea count' from China, following a complaint from Jaya Shree Textiles unit of Grasim Industries.
In its final findings of the probe, the DGTR has concluded that due to dumped imports, the domestic industry has suffered material injury.
Novetex, a Honk Kong-based textile spinning mill is harnessing pioneering recycling technology to make the fashion industry more sustainable. Novetex uses new technology to separate fabric blends in waste garments and produce yarn. The mill will carry out mechanical recycling, where soiled or damaged fabrics - such as old uniforms or hotel curtains - are sanitised, with buttons and zippers removed, then sorted and stored.
Once an order comes in for a certain color, the material is UV-sterilised before being cut into pieces and spun into yarn. No water or dye is needed, and only small amounts of virgin material are used. The mill will also test a system to separate cotton and polyester blends using only heat, water and small quantities of biodegradable chemicals.
Hong Kong wants to encourage its 7.3 million people to move away from a take-make-dispose model towards a more circular economy where waste is reused. The city wants to be a leader in sustainable fashion.
Clothing companies around the world doubled the amount of garments they made from 2000 to 2014. Over the same period, the number of garments bought each year, per person, jumped 60 per cent. That has led to a stream of clothing purchased and thrown away, tossed as waste and going into landfills.
Texfusion and The London Print Design Fair, to be held from October 31-November 1, 2018 will feature over 230 exhibitors. The number of exhibitors, boosted by new partnerships with The Taiwan Textile Federation (TTF), Tengda Exhibition (China & Hong Kong) and the Synthetic and Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council (India), has doubled since last season.
The Print Design area at the exhibition will host 50 print studios, with British studios making 80 per cent of exhibitors. Exhibitors from France, Italy, Switzerland and the US will also increase. On the other side of the hall, Texfusion will showcase around 180 exhibitors across fashion fabrics, accessories, garments, technical fabrics and denim. Tengda Exhibition is bringing 40 Chinese and Hong Kong-based exhibitors, while the Taiwan Textile Federation will be presenting 10 companies specialising in technical fabrics, sustainability and denim.
The Synthetic and Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council from India will host an Indian Pavilion with 40 manufacturers and products such as fashion fabrics, accessories and garments.
American denim brand Wrangler will release a line of denim made using a new eco-friendly foam-dyeing process in 2019. The technique, developed at Texas Tech University, eliminates 99 percent of the water typically used in indigo-dyeing. Wrangler, along with the Walmart Foundation and fellow denim brand Lee, invested in the development of the new dyeing process at Texas Tech in 2017. With the new technique, raw denim is dyed with foam instead of water. The brand has been able to reduce water use in product finishing during the past 10 years.
Spanish fabric mill Tejidos Royo will be the first to apply the foam-dye process, which it calls Dry Indigo. The mill is set to receive the dyeing equipment in October and begin supplying Wrangler with finished denim before the end of the year. Wrangler has previously reinforced its image as an environmentally-conscious brand by funding ongoing work in US sustainable cotton, and publicly committing to reducing water usage in its denim production by five billion liters by 2020.
Hanoi Tex is on at Vietnam from September 19 to 21. This show is about textile products made of micro-fiber fabrics, yarn, silk, bamboo fiber, non-woven fabrics and cotton. It also features modern equipment, machinery, automatic technologies and other auxiliary materials.
The show is a good opportunity for domestic businesses in the textile and garment sector to learn and equip themselves with advanced equipment and modern technology as well as expanding cooperation. Vietnam’s exports of textile and garment rose 10 per cent in 2017 compared to 2016. In the first eight months of this year, export figures were up 15 per cent over the same period last year. Major markets, including Japan, Korea and China, accounted for 75 per cent of Vietnam's export value and increased more than 20 per cent over the same period.
This year continues to be a challenging for Vietnam’s domestic textile and garment industry as the sector needs to move forward in its global textile supply chain by adding greater value. In addition, the fourth Industrial Revolution has also had a major impact on the textile industry, forcing businesses to adapt and invest more strongly in equipment, as well as personnel. The forecast for Vietnam’s garment exports in the remaining months is positive.
As per the Central Java Indonesian Enterprenuers Association (Apindo), although the export value of Central Java's textile and textile goods have decreased since July 2018, the industry is growing again. From January to July 2018, there was a slowdown in the textile and garment industries. However, since last month, orders have again begun to increase. In the next two to three months, the realisation of exports of textiles and textile goods from Central Java will increase significantly.
Data released by the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) reveal both exports and imports of textiles and textile goods in Central Java decreased from $220.86 million in July 2018 to $172.53 million in August 2018. Similar to imports, exports also decreased from $288.95 million to $266.37 million.
The total import value of Central Java in August 2018 reached $1.55 billion, up 18.71 per cent compared to July 2018 when it was $1.3 billion.
Synthetic fabric and textiles in India are likely to become costlier as the raw materials used in their production, petrochemicals like DMT, PTA, have become more expensive. The steep depreciation in the rupee against the dollar is set to make imports of raw materials costlier, leaving no room for synthetic textiles manufacturers but to raise their product prices.
The synthetic textile industry already works on wafer thin margins. But given the forecast that crude oil price will remain firm, synthetic fiber and yarn prices may also remain firm. An improvement in cotton price to polyester staple fiber price spread is likely to result in volume growth of synthetic textiles and support the profitability of the synthetic value chain.
Pink bollworm attack is set to affect India’s cotton crop area by ten to 20 per cent. Demand from China is set to increase in favor of India following a heavy import duty levied on cotton imports from China and as cotton output in Pakistan is expected to decline by a fourth, fiber prices are likely to remain elevated.
The benchmark Brent crude oil prices have jumped by a staggering 12.9 per cent in the previous one month. Also, the rupee has depreciated by 4.1 per cent in the last one month.
