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China and Cambodia have seen a 16 per cent rise in bilateral trade volume in the first seven months of the year. Bilateral trade between China and Cambodia has rapidly increased in recent years.
The two countries hope to be able to achieve a target of $5 billion in trade volume by 2017. China is the largest investor in Cambodia. Chinese investments have been made in the fields of energy, garment industry, banking and finance, telecommunications, construction and real estate, tourism, and agriculture. There are more than 3,000 registered Chinese companies operating in Cambodia.
China is one of the top providers of development assistance to Cambodia. The main drivers of the growth of trade between Cambodia and China over the last several years include the strong growth in construction sectors that need to import construction materials, especially from China, while Cambodia exports agricultural products like rice, corn, cassava.
Chinese assistance is mostly in the form of concessional loans. These loans target infrastructure projects, such as roads, bridges, and hydropower projects, and oil and mineral exploration.
As Chinese labour becomes more expensive, and workers become more vocal, Cambodia’s cheap and controlled labor force provides an escape route for Chinese companies.
Very soon the work to build Perarignar Anna Handloom Silk Park in Kanchipuram will begin. The environmental clearance for it is almost done, and the park will hire more than 2,000 weavers.
During the public hearing recently, no objections were raised and the environmental clearance that had delayed the project is set to come through in the next couple of months with the installation of a common effluent treatment plant, said Rajesh NV, Managing Director, Perarignar Anna Handloom Silk Park Limited.
The proposed treatment plant with Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) system will ensure environmental safety, said Rajesh. The technology was developed by WTT Technologies, Tirupur.
During the Global Investors Meet last month, Perarignar Anna Handloom Silk Park was a part of MoUs signed with the State Government. Through Scheme of Integrated Textile Parks (SITP), the project has got a funding of Rs. 83 crore. Through Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS), it plans to raise another Rs. 100 crore.
Rajesh further said that they were planning to 2,000 upgraded handlooms that would directly benefit 2,000-4,000 people. In the next three years the park should be operational.
The Rieter spider web mill control system covers the entire spinning mill from fiber to yarn and for all four spinning technologies - not only for new machines but also for older generations. The system is configurable for individual requirements. It stores and monitors the quality and production of all Rieter spinning systems. Subsequent enhancements can be upgraded.
In addition, Rieter offers value-adding innovations such as internet use for optimising the entire system, new machine generations for preparatory and end spinning as well as corresponding spare parts and after sales services. The mobile solution not only provides an overview of the data of the spinning mill, but also offers a configurable alarm function. With six new modules, it opens the door to an internet-based, intelligent spinning mill control.
Rieter offers spinning mill audits that identify feasible short-term opportunities for improvements and create measurable results for customers. For older generations of combers, Rieter offers conversion kits that improve the productivity and yarn quality and make a reduction of the noil rate possible.
The new R 66 rotor-spinning machine makes yarn production economical. A higher yarn production per square meter is obtained with longer machines. Rieter now produces a length of up to 700 spinning positions possible. The new machine length can reduce the costs for the entire rotor spinning system.
www.rieter.com
Sensient Imaging Technologies has launched a new range of digital sublimation printing inks for high performance decoration of polyester fabrics. The new range is suitable for fashion apparel, sportswear and flag and banner applications.
The ElvaJet Punch range of digital textile inkjet inks is designed to achieve the highest quality sublimation polyester fabric printing using both coated and uncoated transfer papers, delivering unsurpassed color vibrancy and printing performance. It offers customers maximum color performance combined with industrial reliability.
The premium ink is also ideal for direct printing on to fabrics, with no image bleed and good print-through. It shows superior color vibrancy and gamut, enhanced transfer efficiency from a wide range of coated and uncoated sublimation papers and exceptional jetting performance.
Sensient, based in Spain, is a leading supplier of inkjet inks for digital textile, industrial digital and sublimation printing. Sensient first entered the inkjet market with a line of high-performance ink solutions designed for some of the world’s most popular desktop printers. It is a business unit of Sensient Technologies Corporation, a leading manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors and fragrances.
With the recent acquisition of Xennia Technology, the company has expanded its product range and increased its innovation scope and power. ElvaJet Punch is the first fruit of that innovation.
www.sensient.com
Interesting sessions throughout the day
Ahmed Badr the representative for Pantone, who presented the colour trends for 2016/17, kick-started the fair on a colourful note. He talked about how the colours have a significant impact on the upcoming trends. A session by Mallory Giardino of Ethical Fashion Forum followed, who addressed the issue of business case of sustainability in fashion and textiles.
A stylist tutorial by the Islamic Fashion & Design Council (IFDC) was highlight of the day. Visitors were busy exploring fabrics on display from across the world. Almost around 7,000 visitors were at the event. Emma Hall, delved into the details of starting her design label ‘Haylan Hall Swimwear’, followed by Shlaga Agarwal and Eljammi Gozalli from American University in the Emirates. A hijab and make-up tutorial organized by the IFDC will acquaint the ITF visitors to the concept of ‘Islamic fashion.
’ ITF Dubai not only had its own down pour of student population in the UAE from its various academic partners but also saw interested budding fashion designers and interior decorators attending high school turning up for the show. Ayesha Siddequa (Founder and creative director, Future Fashion) spoke about ‘Looking good without costing the Earth’; while providing insights into the topic of sustainable fashion. Bringing in a very interested panel of students all the way from Heriot Watt University and a troop of designers crossing seas from Australia, Siddequa’s conference session was nothing short of being a ‘full house’.
ITF’s second annual edition was held on October 11 and 12, 2015. National award winning textile exhibitors, global fashion authorities, revered academic institutions, exclusive keynote speakers, and the world’s leading corpus on sustainable fashion assembled under one roof during ITF, hailed as the Middle East’s premier textile fair.
www.internationaltextilefair.com
The winner of the ITMA sustainable innovation award will be announced in Italy, November 12, 2015. One of three leading textile manufacturing companies who have worked closely with their technology suppliers will be presented with the award. The three finalists are Berto, Gebrüder Otto and Levi Strauss.
Berto is an Italian company. It is a supplier of denim to leading European designer brands. It has developed a wide range of new coating and coloring concepts. These include the latest Never Fade solid indigo denims which are guaranteed to retain color for their lifetime, along with printed denim ranges and coated stretch fabrics in vivid, full colors.
Gebrüder Otto is a German company. It’s one of Europe’s leading yarn manufacturers. The family-owned business has been producing top quality yarns and twists for over a century, specialising in the processing of natural fibers. The company has been a partner in the development of Mayer & Cie’s new spinit technology. The spinning and circular knitting processes are uniquely combined in the spinit system, with single knitwear made not from yarn, but directly from rovings, resulting in a much shorter process, with ring spinning, cleaning and rewinding all eliminated.
Levi Strauss is the well-known denim manufacturer and clothing brand from the US. The brand uses Tonello’s NoStone process which is said to result in authentically stone washed denim without the economic, ecological and mechanical disadvantages of other processes.
www.itma.com
Sri Lanka will host the Taiwan Textile Fair on November 27 to 28, 2015. This is a platform for textile manufacturers from Taiwan to showcase knit, functional and other textiles to Sri Lankan apparel manufacturers.
Taiwan is internationally renowned for textile development. Owing to the continued expansion of Sri Lanka’s apparel industry, its demand for textiles is growing fast. Currently, Sri Lanka has a heavy reliance on imported textiles.
The Taiwan Textile Fair is an excellent opportunity for Sri Lankan apparel manufacturers, exporters, brand owners, buying houses, buying agents, big retailers, importers to interact with manufacturers from Taiwan to source the required high quality fabrics and products that add value. The fair will also introduce Sri Lankan manufacturers to new product categories to develop for the growing demand in the South Asian market as well as the export market.
The fair will showcase a wide variety of products like knitting laces, double knit fleece, garment trims and accessories, knit fabrics, acrylic yarns, tweed and light weight fabrics, jacquard fabrics and sportswear.
This year Taiwan’s textile manufacturers will bring a new range of knitted and functional textiles which can add value to products made by Sri Lankan garment manufacturers and exporters.
www.ttf.textiles.org.tw
Several million people are employed in the global apparel industry, which stands at $1.7 trillion worth in business. However, in the past decade, companies began taking their roles as partners in sustainability very seriously as they realised the harm fast fashion was causing the environment.
A dramatic change has come about since he started his PhD in 2004, says Timo Rissanen, Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Sustainability at Parsons - The New School for Design. He adds that even those brands who churn out fast fashion have become eco-conscious in the past ten years and also the consumers are more concerned about their social responsibility. In light of consumer consciousness, according to the Environment Survey data, about seven of ten consumers (69 per cent) would be bothered if they found out an item they purchased was not environmentally friendly. And 39 per cent would blame the manufacturer, followed by the brand (15 per cent) and then themselves (12 per cent).
Thus, positive changes are seen throughout the apparel industry. In a move towards ‘making fashion sustainable and sustainability fashionable’, H&M now offers its Conscious Collection, which includes cotton produced through the Better Cotton Initiative. Walmart too, earlier this year introduced its online Sustainability Leaders Shop. It is promoting nearly 3,000 items from more than 100 companies labelled as ‘Made by a Sustainability Leader’.
According to the Environment Survey, the terms that influence consumers’ apparel purchases are—more than three in four consumers (77 per cent) say the claim of 100 per cent cotton is most influential. This is followed by Made in the USA (68 per cent), natural (61 per cent), and sustainable (57 per cent).
Pakistan’s imports of textile machinery fell nine per cent during July to August 2015. Imports of construction and mining machinery fell by three per cent. Imports of construction and mining machinery rose by 15 per cent. Electrical machinery and apparatus imports rose by 28.27 per cent.
The government grants exemption of customs duty on the import of a wide range of textile machinery and equipment including machines for extruding, drawing, texturing or cutting manmade textile materials and textile winding (including weft-winding) or reeling machines.
The textile sector is the backbone of Pakistan’s export economy. It comprises 521 textile units. Pakistan is the fourth largest producer of cotton and the third largest consumer. It contributes nine per cent of GDP and employs 38 per cent of the workforce in the manufacturing sector.
Pakistan’s imports of textile machinery increased by 58 per cent from July 2013 to May 2014. The aim was to replace old machinery with new imported ones, more modern, more sophisticated, offering a superior technology, in order to increase the output of textile manufacturers.
The country is in the process of developing the entire textile value chain at par with international best practices, expanding the textile sector to produce value-added garments along with new innovative products, and developing a state of the art infrastructure.
Iran has historically been a primary trading partner for Italy’s textile machinery industry. Italian textile machinery producers boast consolidated business relations with Iran’s textile manufacturers. International sanctions in recent years have delayed the modernisation process necessary for the Iranian industry to remain competitive globally.
In 2004, Iran was actually the fourth largest market for Italian textile machinery exports. International sanctions blocked the flow of textile machinery exports to Iran, but the recent nuclear agreement may pave the way toward a competitive re launching of the local textile industry.
Iran’s textile industry boasts an ancient tradition, with a very high number of manufacturers operating in a variety of different sectors along the production chain from spinning to finishing.
In 2014, the flow of imports of textile machinery to Iran resumed. The value of the sales of Italian textile machinery to Iran grew 170 per cent in 2014 compared to 2013.
ACIMIT (the umbrella association for Italian textile machinery manufacturers) will participate in the Italian trade mission in late November 2015. The visit will take place from November 28 to 30, 2015. ACIMIT has already planned a road show for 2016, with the aim of promoting Italian textile technology in Iran’s major textile producing areas.
www.acimit.it
