http://www.yarnsandfibers.com YarnsandFibers Textile Reports en bharati@yarnsandfibers.com YarnsandFibers Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:56:47 -0600 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:56:47 -0600 http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/images/topbanner_logonew.gif http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/revamp_ir/index.php3 http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/revamp_ir/report_fullstory.php3?id=476 VFY Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0700 The US$45 billion polyester industry was no exception to this vagary. Both supply and demand declined. The polyester value chain lost almost US$0.70 billion worth of production as it ended the year at US$46.5 billion. While the loss in polyester segment was US$0.50 billion at US$16.5 billion, the filament segment was somewhat fortunate with a loss of just US$0.18 billion, now values at US$30 billion. Although polyester has been a major textile and clothing fibre, of late its use in industry, particularly in construction and automobile is remarkable. The global output of polyester was down 1.1% at 30.77 million tons and all sectors were negatively affected. Filament yarns somehow weathered the turbulences well by declining just 0.3% to 18.76 million tons while staple fibers, in line with falling cotton demand, were down 2.5% to 12 million tons... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/revamp_ir/report_fullstory.php3?id=475 General Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:06:00 -0700 The textile Industry is in no way different than other chemical industries, which causes pollution of one or the other type. The textile industry consumes large amount of water in its varied processing operations. In the mechanical processes of spinning and weaving, water consumed is very small as compared to textile wet processing operations, where water is used extensively. Almost all dyes, specialty chemicals, and finishing chemicals are applied to textile substrates from water baths. In addition, most fabric preparation steps, including desizing, scouring, bleaching, and mercerizing use aqueous systems. According to USEPA a unit producing 20,000 Ib / day of fabric consume 36000 liters of water.... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/revamp_ir/report_fullstory.php3?id=474 General Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:06:00 -0700 The textile industry is one of the largest consumer supported industries which has played a vital role in worldwide economy. The use of fibers, yarns and fabrics for applications other than clothing and furnishing (conventional textile) is not a new phenomenon. The technical textile defined by the Textile Institute1 is ‘textile materials and products manufactured primarily for their technical and performance properties rather than their aesthetic or decorative characteristics. ... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/revamp_ir/report_fullstory.php3?id=473 General Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:06:00 -0700 The Indian Textile Industry is currently one of the largest and most important industries in the Indian economy in terms of output, foreign exchange earnings and employment. The industry contributes 4% to the country's GDP, 14% to the country's industrial production and around 12% to the country's foreign exchange earnings. However, the textile industry was one of the drastic hit industries on the back of Global economic melt down.... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/revamp_ir/report_fullstory.php3?id=472 General Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:06:00 -0700 China has become the largest producer of textile machinery in the world, delivering the most diversified and the largest quantity of products, while its import has also been increasing at a high speed in recent years. Specifically, the import of air-jet looms, shuttle -less looms, circular knitting machines, hosiery machines and cotton processing machinery have all increased. This means that China's demand is still strong for textile machinery. The focus of global textile production will shift to inland of China and also to other parts of South Eastern Asia, and China will be the most potential consumer of textile machinery in the world.... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/revamp_ir/report_fullstory.php3?id=471 General Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:06:00 -0700 The world of rapid economic globalisation and regionalization continues to intensify since the last decade involving phenomenal change in the international economic spectrum, particularly after establishment of WTO. Countries are looking for the business opportunities abroad. Free trade and investment agreements have become almost the need of the hour. While international trade has been there throughout the history, its economic, social, and political importance has also increased. Industrialization, ICT revolution, advanced transportation, globalisation, growth of MNCs' and outsourcing etc had major impact on it. Trade is regarded as a major source of economic revenue, investment and modern technology. ... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/revamp_ir/report_fullstory.php3?id=470 General Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:06:00 -0700 The first Küsters calender for the nonwovens industry was installed in 1961. This 2-roll calender for Freudenberg was equipped with two heated Swimming Rolls Küsters® with a chill casting sleeve. Since then, not only the calender technology has developed, but the entire industry has undergone continuing and rapid change. The search for ever new fields of application and the trend of moving away from mass production towards niche products has made our clients processes increasingly complex and sophisticated. In earlier days it was enough to supply a high performance machine; today this is, however, only one part of the performance spectrum expected by our partners in the nonwovens industry. For the client, it now goes without saying that there will be, at the end of a complete analysis process, a calender specifically designed to his needs. Then, as now, one fact is indisputable: the performance of the roll technology is crucial for the extent to which a calender adapts to the production processes and generates a relevant added value to product and company. ... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/revamp_ir/report_fullstory.php3?id=469 Propylene Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:06:00 -0700 Acrylonitrile capacity stood at 6.3 million tons in 2008, up 254,500 tons from last year. Of this nearly half was added in North America, with Ineos Nitriles (Innovere) and Lucite setting up respective 650,000 tons a year and 140,000 tons a year of production capacities. The rest of the capacity was set up in Asian region shared between China and South Korea. Thus, Asia now accounted for almost 49% of global acrylonitrile capacity with over 3 million tons of annual capacity. With another 250,000 tons per annum capacity under construction the total capacity in Asia would touch 3.2 million tons by end-2009.... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/revamp_ir/report_fullstory.php3?id=468 Benzene Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:06:00 -0700 Global caprolactum production dwindled to a 6-year low of less than 4 million tons in 2008. Production has been growing at a slow pace for the last three years with 2008 posting a negative growth. Over the past 10 years, caprolactum output has risen by a modest 1.7% per annum against 1.1% rate of increase in consumption and similar rate in the in capacity. Caprolactam demand has been significantly affected by the economic downturn, especially sales to the auto and textile industries. Sales dropped as much as 40% in the fourth quarter of 2008 due to rapidly falling feedstock prices and downstream destocking.... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/revamp_ir/report_fullstory.php3?id=467 Ethylene Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:06:00 -0700 The polyester staple fibre industry was adversely affected by the global slowdown with crisis aggravating in the second half of the year. About half a billion US$ were shaved off during the year at US$16.5 billion. Such drastic performance was unseen in the past 10 years. During 2008, capacity expanded by mere 1% while output and consumption declined 2.5% and 3% respectively. Only 158,000 tons of net capacity was added during the year, with Asia alone adding 590,000 tons. Other regions witnessed capacity derating.... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/revamp_ir/report_fullstory.php3?id=466 General Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:06:00 -0600 Italy has always attached great importance to the cordial relations with Pakistan which are improving with the passage of time. Italy is one of the top eight trading partners of Pakistan. Over the years, trade between Pakistan and Italy increased significantly and other economic activities have also grown between the two countries. During the past five years exports and imports between Pakistan and Italy has increased, but the rise in exports has been faster than the imports. The balance of trade had remained in favour of Pakistan, which increased from US $141.4 million in 2003-2004 to US $170.3 million in 2007-2008.... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/revamp_ir/report_fullstory.php3?id=465 General Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:06:00 -0600 The textiles and apparel industry consists of four segments, namely primary textiles (polymerization, spinning, weaving, knitting and wetprocessing), made-up textiles, textiles and clothing accessories, and made-up garments. A total of 662 major companies are involved in the four segments of the industry, while approximately 1,000 SMEs are mainly in made up garments manufacturing. In 2008, the production index of the textiles segment increased by 8.6% to 102.8 from 94.7 in 2007, while the production of the apparel segment decreased by 9.5% to 102.5 from 113.3. The major decline was in man-made fibre spinning and weaving of textiles, which decreased by 30.7%. ... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/revamp_ir/report_fullstory.php3?id=464 General Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:06:00 -0600 The textile and clothing sector is regarded as the engine of growth for many developing countries in Asia, since it accounts for around 45 percent of developed markets imports from the developing countries. Pakistans textile industry ranks amongst the top in the world. Pakistan is worlds fourth largest producer of cotton, the third largest consumer of the same, sixth largest importer of raw cotton and first class exporter of cotton yarn. ... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/revamp_ir/report_fullstory.php3?id=463 General Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:06:00 -0600 The global financial crisis that originated in the United States sub prime mortgage market is now pummeling the real economy. As household and corporate sector cut spending on tightened credit and reduced wealth, the global recession has become almost inevitable. The recession will likely be more prolonged than originally expected, as it will take time for global financial system to stabilize and governments policies to take effect. According to estimates and forecasts published by the Economist Intelligent Unit (EIU), world economic growth slowed from 4.8% in 2007 to 3.6% in 2008, and is expected to slow further to 2.0% in 2009 before recovering to 3.0% by 2010. ... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/revamp_ir/report_fullstory.php3?id=462 General Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:06:00 -0600 Interest in seamless knits has manufacturers in all segments - whether flat, circular or warp knitting - developing machinery to enable ever newer concepts to be produced. The apparel and therapeutic medical textile sectors are especially interested in seamless technologies. Apparel areas include activewear, outerwear, swimwear, lingerie, hosiery and shapewear. Medical applications include compression hosiery and a range of garments geared toward promoting wellness. ...