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Related Keywords: export, fabrics, Imports, Indonesia’s Trade Ministry, synthetic, Textile, yarns

Indonesia’s Trade Ministry will tighten restrictions on textile imports in an effort to protect local industries, an official told reporters on Friday.

The ministry will require all textile importers to gain approval from the government before they can ship in textile goods, foreign trade director general Indrasari Wisnu Wardhana said.

The revision to regulations is targeted to be issued before President Joko Widodo, who takes office for the second term on Oct. 20, appoints new cabinet ministers, he said.

Related Keywords: clothing, innovation, material, nylon, polymers, synthetic, technology, Textile

As the microelectronic industry is now shifting toward wearable electronic gadgets and electronic (e-)textiles, the comprising electronic materials, such as ferroelectrics, should be integrated with our clothes. Nylons, a family of synthetic polymers, were first introduced in the 1920s' for women's stockings and are nowadays among the most widely used synthetic fibers in textiles. They consist of a long chain of repeated molecular units, i.e. polymers, where each repeat unit contains a specific arrangement of hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen with carbon atoms.

Related Keywords: China, export, fiber, HTSUS, Imports, India, polyester, Reliance Industries Limited, synthetic, United States, yarn

On June 26, 2019, the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce Department”) announced affirmative preliminary determinations that imports of polyester textured yarn from China and India are being unfairly sold below their fair value in the United States at significant double-digit margins, as follows.

Polyester Textured Yarn Imports from China
Producer/Exporter Preliminary Dumping Rate (%)
Fujian Billion Polymerization Fiber Industrial Co Ltd. 77.15
Suzhou Shenghong Fiber Co., Ltd. 77.15
Jiangsu Hengli Chemical Fiber Co., Ltd. 76.07
PRC-Wide Entity / All Others 77.15

Related Keywords: automotive, CoreTech, fibers, Filidea, furniture, GmbH, Hoftex, Italy, natural, Neutex, sewing, synthetic, technical yarns

The italian Company Filidea s.r.l., specialized in technical and performing products made out of natural, synthetic and artificial fibers, announces the acquisition of Hoftex CoreTech GmbH from the German group Hoftex.

The agreement was signed on May 18th, the closing time for this acquisition is fixed on September 1st. Through this acquisition, Filidea confirms its international dimension, consolidates its leadership within the sector of technical yarns and expands its presence in the European territory.

Related Keywords: chemical fibers, fabric and garment manufacturers, fancy & specialty yarns, National Exhibition and Convention Center, synthetic, traditional cotton product group, Yarn Expo fair

The next Yarn Expo fair, the Autumn Edition, will be held at the earlier date of September 27-29, 2018, once again at the National Exhibition and Convention Center. Yarn Expo continued its evolution into the industry’s most comprehensive and effective business platform with its Spring Edition which concluded last week with a large increase in the buyer figure, as well as another year of growth in the exhibitor number.

Related Keywords: cotton fiber, country's production of textiles, Domestic production of textiles, exports and trade, SRTEPC, synthetic, targeting to double textile production, Textile Ministry, trade, USD300 billion by 2025

With the domestic production of textiles at $110 billion and exports and trade at $40 billion, the country's production of textiles at present is worth $150 billion. The Textile Ministry is targeting to double textile production and trade to $300 billion by 2025, said Textile Commissioner Kavita Gupta on Friday.

Related Keywords: apparel, boost manufacturing, exhibitors across India, home furnishing, largest textile show in Asia, Make in India, Minister of State for Textile, rayon, Santosh Kumar Gangwar, silk, synthetic, Tex Trend 2015, Threads and Fabrics, yarns

The 5th edition of Tex-Trends India 2015 was declared open with the inauguration by Minister of State for Textile, Santosh Kumar Gangwar at Pragati Maidan (ITPO), in New Delhi on Wednesday. This event has exhibitors from across the length and breadth of India, including Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Bengal, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab.

The show will also have theme area made by TEXPROCIL, NJB, EPCH, SETEPC, DISHA, CEPC to showcase uniqueness and strengths of the India's Textiles Industry.

Related Keywords: cotton garments, cotton industry, high cotton price, manmade fiber, switch spindles to polyester, synthetic, synthetic technology, US apparel import, US government data, yarn mills

U.S. imports of synthetic apparel surpasses over cotton garments, as of total 19.43 billion square-meter equivalents of apparel shipped to the United States through September this year, 9.87 billion clothing are made of man made fibers like polyester and viscose, according to the latest U.S. government data.

The cotton industry's fears that cotton is losing the battle to man made fibers as yarn mills have switched spindles to polyester and its cohorts due to years of high cotton prices and improving synthetic technology.

Related Keywords: cotton, synthetic, US apparel industry

Love of natural fibers, cotton fade away as lower priced synthetics attract the designers and consumers in US apparel industry. Cotton is no longer king of the apparel as the American wardrobes has been taken over by synthetic clothing.

US imports of synthetic clothing may overtake cotton garments for the first time in decades this year, while US mills increasingly use artificial blends amid an unexpected revival of the threadbare domestic textile industry.

Related Keywords: cotton fiber, cotton industry, synthetic

To help cotton farmers fend off increasing competition from synthetic fibers. An international collaboration with strong Aggie ties has figured out how to make a longer cotton fiber. A Texas A and M University biologist believes that this could potentially have a multi-billion-dollar impact on the global cotton industry and also help out farmers in the competitive market.