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Related Keywords: athletic apparel, bedding, fabric markets, fiber, home furnishings, performance textiles, Textiles, woven textiles

Keeping with it’s sock hop celebration theme, the company is releasing a collection of Celliant Home textiles with names like Boogie, Twist and Swing. Celliant textiles are already used in a wide range of products including bedding and athletic apparel.

Currently, the company has exclusive manufacturing and distribution rights on Celliant for the contract and home furnishings fabric markets in North America, Mexico and the Caribbean.

Related Keywords: cotton, dyed silks, felted wool sculptures, fiber, fiber arts, hand-woven fabrics, hooked rugs, knitted clothing, mohair, quilts, tapestries, textile art and quilt show, textile installations, wool

The celebration of fiber arts features a variety of works, including quilts, tapestries, felted wool sculptures, hooked rugs, textile installations, hand-woven fabrics, dyed silks, knitted clothing and others, from both contemporary artists and artists from previous generations. In addition to area craftspeople, this show features artists living in Rhode Island and Costa Rica.

Related Keywords: conventional fiber, fiber, fiber production, global value chains, Lyocell, manmade cellulosic materials, organic cotton, Recycled polyester, sustainable cotton, sustainable materials

Nike tops the list of recycled polyester users. C&A is the world’s biggest user of organic cotton. Inditex is the second largest user of lyocell and the fourth largest user of preferred manmade cellulosics. Target is the third largest user of recycled polyester and the fifth largest user of preferred down. The North Face is the second largest user of preferred down.

Related Keywords: agribusiness company, cotton importer, fiber, Textile Industry, unginned cotton, weaving and clothing, yarn

China is the world's largest cotton importer, bringing in over 1.1 million tons last year. Ruichang Tech operates in several African countries and has an annual output of at least 100,000 tons of unginned cotton - before the fiber is separated from the seeds and waste material - and 1,200 tons of cotton yarn. Every ton is shipped to China as raw material for the textile industry.

Related Keywords: customized MES- and ERP-solutions, fiber, Halo, integrated textile manufacturing solutions, knitting, OrgaTEX platform, processing and finishing of textiles, SETEX, textile dyeing, vertical manufacturers, weaving

Oliver Schermuly from SETEX said that, “Both SETEX and Halo contribute a rich source of information and technology to the new OrgaTEX-inteos package, which goes far beyond providing just a software solution" Also, "Thanks to our SETEX locations around the world, the newly formed project management and excellent relationships with textile machine manufacturers, this collaboration allows us to provide, commission and support the new solution locally worldwide."

Related Keywords: domestic fiber business has grown by 22%, fiber, Grasim Industries, textile business, viscose, VSF business

Grasim’s managing director Dilip Gaur said that, “Viscose is eating out of other fiber markets. Our domestic fiber business has grown by 22% (annually) during the March 2018 quarter,” adding that the bulk of the growth in the textile business is expected to come from the company’s VSF business in the future.On a consolidated basis, Grasim Industries will invest more than Rs13, 327 crore in capex into its textile and cement businesses till financial year 2021.

Related Keywords: ballistic vests, better performing material, Dyneema, fiber, fiber capacity, inserts and helmets, polymer production

Royal DSM announced last week that it will increase production capacity for Dyneema®, the world’s strongest fiber™. The company is investing to install additional new UD technology at its plant in Heerlen, the Netherlands, and its plant in Greenville, N.C. The capacity expansion will enable DSM to fulfill the growing global customer demand. The growing domestic U.S. market will be served better from DSM’s Greenville facility. It will also make improvements to existing production lines to expand Dyneema UD and Dyneema fiber capacity, incorporating the latest technologies.

Related Keywords: apparel, Better Cotton Initiative, cotton yarn, e-commerce, fabrics, Fair, Fancy Yarn Zone, fashion, fiber, green products, Modal, Textile Association, viscose, wool, Yarn Expo

Green products continue to be sought after more and more by consumers nowadays, and textiles are no exception. In order to promote sustainable development throughout the industry, a number of yarn and fibre manufacturers have endeavoured to introduce green products into the early stages of textile production, and Yarn Expo, as the leading yarn and fibre business platform in Asia, serves as an ideal stage for these suppliers to gain exposure to buyers looking for such products.

Related Keywords: cloth, cotton, fiber, garment products, Indian textile and garment material supplier, input material, largest importer, market share, Vietnam textile industry

At present, Vietnam is the world’s third largest importers of textiles and ranks fifth on the list of the largest suppliers of garment products. On the other hand, India is the world’s second largest producer of input materials for the textile and garment industry, such as cotton, cloth and fiber. Keeping this in mind, the Indian textile and garment material suppliers have drawn up a plan to raise their market share in Vietnam to 25 percent by 2018.