By joining the SAC, Mammut has become part of the leading clothing, footwear and textile industry alliance for sustainable production. The SAC’s Higg Index provides all industry stakeholders with a series of standardised tools to measure environmental impacts and working conditions, encompassing the supply chain, brands and products.
The four-day event aims to end animal exploitation in the industry by educating fashion lovers about the ethical, social, and environmental issues surrounding the use of animals in the industry. Los Angeles will host the very first Vegan Fashion Week this February. It's a fitting home for it; LA recently became the biggest city in America to ban the use of fur.
Beaulieu Yarns, a division of Beaulieu Engineered Products, reinforces its strong support for best performance and CO₂ emission reduction for tufted carpets with its new and extended innovative product ranges at Domotex 2019. Discover the innovations from Beaulieu Yarns at Stand B56 Hall 11, Domotex 2019 in Hannover, Germany from January 11-14, 2019.
IDEA is an industry leading event drawing the world’s premier professionals in nonwovens and engineered fabrics. The 2019 event takes place between March 25-28 at Miami Beach Convention Center and is expected to attract over 7,000 attendees and companies from more than 70 countries. Avgol will be located at booth 928 and welcome delegates to stop by.
Avgol, a global manufacturer of high-performance nonwoven fabric solutions, is to showcase its Forward Innovative Thinking (FIT) family of nonwoven technologies at IDEA 2019.
The company reports that Microban’s portfolio, which provides solutions for apparel, furnishings, home textile and technical textiles, will now be easier for healthcare retailers, brands and their manufacturers to access and will allow Microban to provide enhanced customer service through more regional support and faster turnaround times.
Internationally, negotiations between US-China over tariffs seem to be heading in the right direction and are likely to have a positive impact on global trade. The improvement in world leading cotton markets also helped induce sentiment as New York, Chinese and Indian cotton closed higher. The Karachi Cotton Association (KCA) spot rates were firm at overnight level at Rs8,700 per maund.
GTTES 2019 is ready to herald a new successful business year with new optimism, new opportunities and new prospects for the textile industry with 400+ Exhibitors & 48+ Countries in its much anticipated 2nd Edition in Mumbai from 18th to 20th January 2019.
Michael Kors Holdings, like its counterparts in France, has charged aggressively into the upper echelons of luxury fashion hoping to pump up sales. Kering snapped up Gucci, Bottega Veneta and Pomelato and LVMH bought Bulgari and Loro Piana. Michael Kors is changing its name to Capri.
The smart technology is said to allow achieving the highest efficiency through a specifically determined procedure. This special procedure includes the precisely defined selection of the type of crystals, quantity and mutual ratio and balance of crystals, their grinding and mixing, and finally – addition of gold and silver for special purposes.
New facade increases design freedom - The project objectives were the development of a drapable textile reinforcement for a concrete matrix and the production process (concrete casting process) for double-curved TRC elements with continuous fibre reinforcement. Based on the expertise of Penn Textile Solutions GmbH in the production and development of elastic textiles, a new product approach for the development of a drapable reinforcement textile could be used in this project. A textile product was developed which is now used as a reinforcement structure for double-curved TRC elements.
