Lotte Pakistan PTA Ltd. (LOTPTA), the pure terephthalic acid producer whose shares have declined by a quarter this year, plans to spend as much as $20 million within the next two years on its plant to trim costs amid concerns annual profit will decline. Lotte, which started commercial operations of a $50 million power plant in July, plans to modernize its machines, Chief Executive Officer Asif Saad said in an interview in Karachi. The power plant may help cut energy costs by 50 percent, he add

Okamoto has applied for patent protection for a tubular knitted fabric for clothing and legwear. The invention relates to a knitted fabric with a plurality of stitches knitted to obtain desired patterns by a circular machine. The sinkers have facilities to control horizontal sinker movement between reciprocating needles of the machine to knit stitches of a plurality of sizes in the same course. The plurality of sizes include a first stitch and second stitch which is smaller than the first.

In the Shengze region of eastern China, a major centre for the production of goods throughout the polyester textile supply chain, a drop in intermediary prices, along with the sustained paucity of buying interest from downstream manufacturers, took a toll of polyester staple fibre and filament yarn values last week. Spot rates for MEG and PTA, according to 168tex (a provider of information services to manufacturers in Shengze), rose to roughly 8,300/8,400 yuan per tonne in early September, on

Fig.:Design of the unit for centrally adjusting the knock-over comb bar distance and for swinging out the stitch comb KARL MAYER’s RD 6/1-12 and RD 7/2-12 (EL) machines are the machines of choice when it comes to efficiently producing high-quality, warp-knitted spacer textile of medium thickness. The machines in the RD series are available in gauges of E 18, E 22 and E 24, in a working width of 138", and with a maximum distance between the knock-over comb bars of 12 mm. A system for cen

Bangladesh Commerce Minister, Ghulam Muhammed Quader, said the US retail giant GAP wants to increase the purchase of apparels in future as the country has improved the quality of products and offers competitive prices. Mr. Quader informed that the clothing retailer bought more than US$ 500 million worth of garments from Bangladesh last year. After a meeting with the Senior Vice-President of GAP Bobby Silten at Dhaka, the Minister told reporters that GAP is very satisfied with sourcing of i

Earlier this month she took part in the Royal Parks half marathon but covered up in a loose fitting jumper. And tonight Nell McAndrew revealed she is pregnant again and she debuted her baby bump on the red carpet at the Pride of Britain Awards ceremony last night. The 38-year-old donned a tight silver dress for the occasion and showed off her growing curves outside the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. Baby on board: Nell McAndrew revealed she is pregnant by showing off her bump at th

A sudden increase in festive orders has lifted up hope for the dull synthetic textile market in Surat. After more than 60 per cent decline in orders in September, the same have picked up again for the Surat synthetic textile industry. "Earlier, factors like the diesel price hike, Telangana stir and dull retail demand had brought down the average orders from a health Rs 8 crore per day to Rs 2.8-3 crore per day. However, now things are getting better with orders per day now ranging in Rs 6-7 cr

Apparel company Elselema is commencing the production of silk. Next year the first locally-produced raw materials will already be available in Georgia. Silk is a very popular fabric in modern fashion and is therefore in high demand. A great deal of different silk fabrics were presented at Texworld Apparel Sourcing in Paris, one of the largest leading international business fairs providing a platform for the European sourcing of accessories, shirting, casual wear and knitwear. Elguja Mamasakhlisi

Until January 20, 2013, at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the Christian Dior-sponsored exhibition “L'impressionnisme et la Mode” (Impressions of Fashion), highlights the links between this 19th-century artistic movement and the history of fashion. They knew how to express the movement of the flowers and the trees, how to capture the light of the rivers and the forests. They saw nature as a separate and individual model, sensitive and alive, and rendered it in the colors they felt rather than aca