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Related Keywords: celebrate British manufacturing, delegation of Leicestershire textile companies, Make It British event, Meet the Manufacturer conference, promote UK fashion and textile manufacturing, showcase manufacturerers and suppliers, to showcase products, Trade show and conference, UK clothing and textile industries

A trade show and conference to promote UK fashion and textile manufacturing begins at Tobacco Docks, London today. It will go on for two days, 3 and 4 June. Meet the Manufacturer conference will showcase more than 100 manufacturers and suppliers to the UK clothing and textiles industries, with presentations from the likes of Simon Colbeck, head of innovation and quality at M&S, Orsola de Castro, co-founder at Fashion Revolution, Caroline Rush of the British Fashion Council, and Becky John, managing director at Who Made Your Pants?.

Related Keywords: challenges and opportunities, creating and running, Euratex, European Confederation, European textile and clothing industries, Five fashion and textile start-up companies, innovative methods of productionnew, manufacturing SME in Europe, new business models, organized round table, representing the interests, share views on, young entrepreneurs

EURATEX is the European Confederation representing the interests at the level of the EU institutions of the European textile and clothing industries as a whole. EURATEX during its General Assembly on 28 May 2015 organized a round table, an exceptional opportunity to meet young entrepreneurs sharing their views on the challenges and opportunities for creating and running a manufacturing SME in Europe.

Related Keywords: Cepsa, completes deal to acquire, Indorama set to become integrated player, IVL, North American PET market, PTa industrial plant, Spanish petrochemical company

Thailand based Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) completed the deal to acquire the purified terephtalic acid (PTA) industrial plant of Spanish petrochemical company CEPSA Chimie Montréal s.e.c in Montreal, Canada. With the acquisition of Cepsa's PTA plant, Indorama is set to become an integrated player in the North American PET market.

Related Keywords: 3D weaving system, ATAP, control a device, create pair of jeans, Google tech giant, Jacquard yarn, Levis jeans retailer, make touch sensitive clothes, partnership, perform action on smart phone, project Jacquard, revolution into textile world, smart fabric technology, track pade built into fabric

The tech giant Google has teamed up with jeans retailer Levi Strauss for a project to make touch sensitive clothes which is to bring a revolution into the textile world. The project Jacquard aims to bring touch goodness to fabrics. So if you want to control a device, you could control it from a track pad built into a fabric, say for example, your clothes or the arm of a sofa.

The name Project Jacquard came from Joseph Marie Jacquard, the French weaver, who invented the a mechanical loom(Jacquard loom) that could produce complexly-woven fabrics with patterns and designs.

Related Keywords: Fairly small trade activity, KCA, leading buyers, little interest in fresh buying, new arrival of crop, Pakistan cotton market, spot rate, under pressure over GIDC issue

Fairly small trade activity was witnessed at Pakistan cotton market on Monday as some leading buyers kept on the sidelines due to little interest in fresh buying, according to dealers.

At Karachi cotton exchange, the official spot rate remained static at Rs 5450.

According to Cotton analyst, Naseem Usman, mills are still under pressure over the issue of GIDC and on the other hand the ginners were selling their stuff before arrivals of new crop.

Related Keywords: attractive on seashore, disposable beach wear fabrics, exported around the world, fabric exporter, gaining popularity, low cost fabric, no need to re-use them, Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Surat MMF hub, textile group, use-and-throw printed fabrics manufactured

Surat, the biggest man-made fabric (MMF) hub, with the daily production pegged at 3.5 crore meters contributes 40 percent of the country’s man-made fabric demand after saris and dress materials is gaining popularity for its disposable beach wear fabrics.

The fabrics are made from second quality yarn and are available on dirt cheap prices of less than Rs 20 per meter. A wearer can dump the clothes and there is no need to re-use them. Around 40 lakh meters of low-cost fabric is manufactured per day for beach wear. The beach fabric turnover
per annum is pegged at Rs 700 crore.

Related Keywords: capable of measuring sleep cycles, center state in Mexico, integrate, Paulino Vacas Jacques, sheets or bedspreads, Social Innovation Park De La Salle in Guanajuato, technology transfer, the Mexican researcher

Paulino Vacas Jacques, the Mexican researcher approached the Social Innovation Park De La Salle in Guanajuato, center state in Mexico to acquire the state and federal tools for technology transfer which is said to revolutionize the textile industry.

This step would help to convert the textiles which the researcher refers to as “smart textiles” which would have the ability retrieved from the technology to make bed sheets measure the hours a person slept.

Related Keywords: artisans and sericulture farmers, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, crafts museum, directed to finalise policy, missed deadline, Nabard, Odisha handlooms, textile and handicrafts department, Textile parks, Weavers

Handlooms, Textiles and Handicrafts Department have been directed to finalise a policy for development of handicrafts and handlooms in Odisha within a month. The direction came at a meeting presided over by the Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at the Secretariat where he reviewed the activities of the department during the last one year.

As the setting up of a textiles park has already been delayed, the department is directed to select the location as early as possible.

Related Keywords: circular knitwear, covers spandex in textile and technical sectors, Fulgar, high quality yarn, hosiery and seamless clothing, leader in production of polyamide 6.6, melange yarn, printed fabric, production of fabric, visual effect

Fulgar operates worldwide in the synthetic yarns market and is a leader in the production and distribution of Polyamide 6.6 and covered spandex in the textile and technical sectors. According to Fulgar, it has achieved a significant development in the production of melange yarns for use in fashion and sportswear enabling the production of a fabric with a visual effect similar to that of printed fabric but with the performance offered by high-quality yarns.

Related Keywords: dutry structure, increase TUF, MMF textile market, relaxation in cabotage laow, Streesed on rationalizing MMF, tap solar opportunity, Texpreneurs Forum, total dispensation of hank yarn obligation

Texpreneurs Forum,, Secretary D Prabhu stressed the need for rationalizing the MMF (man made fibre) duty structure, total dispensation of hank yarn obligation rule, relaxation in Cabotage law, encouraging spinning mills to tap the solar opportunity and increasing TUF (Technology Upgradation Fund) allocation among others.

With a “little bit of hand-holding and interventions on the part of the government can reignite the investment sentiments and propel growth momentum to a different level.