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<title>New Zealand - Stronger dollar erodes wool prices</title>
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<category>Wool</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>A stronger dollar helped to pull down prices at this week's North and South Island wool sales.   


The New Zealand dollar rose by more than 1% against the main wool trading currencies. ...</description>
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<title>India - SEL group plans Rs 800-cr textile factory in MP</title>
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<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Ludhiana-based SEL Manufacturing Company Ltd plans to set up Rs 800-crore textile plant near Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. chairman and managing director, SEL Neeraj Saluja said the spinning plant in MP wou...</description>
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<title>Exports of Tunisian textile on the increase</title>
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<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Textile is the first manufacturing sector in Tunisia, representing 36% of manufacturing exports, generating 3 billion Euros. Tunisia is also the first exporter to Europe on the southern Mediterranean ...</description>
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<title>Indian Oil starts naphtha cracker in north India</title>
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<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Indian Oil Corp on Thursday started a naphtha cracker, its first such plant at Panipat refinery, its director for refineries said, a move which will help IOC make value-added products from surplus nap...</description>
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<title>Asian capro prices hit 18-month high; may extend gains</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Caprolactam prices in Asia are likely to continue rising in the near-term after crossing $2,400/tonne last week, supported by tight regional supply and strong demand coming from China, market players ...</description>
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<title>India - Govt gets Rs 555 cr TUFS claims</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=21454</link>
<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The government today said it received subsidy claims amounting to Rs 554.62 crore under a scheme for technology upgrade of the textiles industry.
  



As on date, claims amounting to Rs ...</description>
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<title>Turkish textiles should grow with fashion designs</title>
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<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Turkeys textile industry needs a new strategy in order to compete globally, according to Murat Yalçıntaş, chairman of the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce, or İTO.   


“It is time for Turkey ...</description>
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<title>Jordan - Upturn in local garment industry hinges on sufficient government support</title>
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<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Jordan's garment industry can pick up this year if it receives sufficient support from the government, investors said Wednesday.
  

Sanal Kumar, owner and director of Classic Fashion Appar...</description>
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<title>India - SEL to set up New Textile facility in MP</title>
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<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Textile company SEL Manufacturing announced on Wednesday in Chandigarh that it would set up a new facility near Bhopal, capital of Madhya Pradesh, investing Rs.800 crore, reports say. 
  

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<title>Brazil urges US to enter talks to end cotton row</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=21450</link>
<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Brazil has urged the US to quickly start negotiations to settle a trade dispute between the two countries over US cotton subsidies.   


President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday cal...</description>
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<title>China`s cotton exports down 78.5%</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=21449</link>
<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>China's cotton exports fell 78.5% to 204.9 tons while its cotton imports quadrupled to 329,000 tons in January, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Agriculture.   


Cotton'...</description>
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<title>Zambia - Cotton production declines</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=21448</link>
<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The cotton industry is facing unacceptable low cotton yields which average between 450-650 kilogrammes per hectare depending on climatic conditions.
  

In a statement Cotton Association of...</description>
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<title>India - IOC starts cracker; Apr naphtha exports may halve</title>
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<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>State-run Indian Oil Corp's monthly naphtha exports will shrink by 50 percent in April, the first sign of decline following the start up of its cracker in northern India on Thursday, company officials...</description>
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<title>Japan - Mitsui Chemical to restart naphtha cracker late March</title>
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<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Japan's Mitsui Chemicals Inc (4183.T) said on Thursday it expects to restart its 553,000 tonnes per year naphtha cracker in Chiba, near Tokyo, around late March after repair work.
  

The c...</description>
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<title>Pakistan - APTMA chief urges textile mills to adopt EnMS</title>
<link>http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=21445</link>
<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Chairman All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA), Punjab Gohar Ejaz, has said that the selective units in textile industry have started saving 10 to 15 percent energy by implementing Sustainabl...</description>
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<title>Pakistan - Government may relax quantitative restrictions on yarn export</title>
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<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>On the spinners' threat to go on strike, the government may relax the quantitative restrictions on export of yarn, which was fixed and brought down to 35 million kg per month from 50 million kg. Infor...</description>
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<title>India`s BT Cotton yield rises 31% In 2009-10</title>
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<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The area under Bt. cotton has increased from 29 thousand hectares in 2002-03 to 80 lakh hectares (anticipated) in 2009-10. The average yield of Bt Cotton has also increased from 300 kg per hectare in ...</description>
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<title>Brazil slaps trade sanctions on US over cotton dispute</title>
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<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>The WTO has ruled that subsidies to US cotton producers are discriminatory. The Brazilian government has announced trade sanctions against a variety of American goods in retaliation for illegal US sub...</description>
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<title>Italian textile companies to help local counterparts upgrade technology</title>
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<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Italian textile machinery companies will assist Bangladeshi companies in further upgrading their technology which will help to produce world-class products.   


Visiting leaders of Associa...</description>
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<title>Associated Textile Consultants at Megatech 2010</title>
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<category>General</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description>Associated Textile Consultants (ATC), the leading one-stop B2B supplier of textile systems, technological components and services to the textile industry in Pakistan, introduced visitors to the best i...</description>
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