The rising market competition seen after the cancellation of the Multi-Fiber Agreement on global textile quotas in early 2005 has prompted Taiwan's garment makers to strenuously adjust manufacturing structure and enhance operating efficiency. Among the leading garment manufacturers on the island, Makalot Industrial Co., Tainan Enterprise Co., and Nan-Woei Industrial Co. have enjoyed better performances after successfully reshaping their global operations. In order to streamline production facili

As the future of Viet Nam? garment exports darkens, Minister of Trade Truong Dinh Tuyen sent a letter this week to enterprises to inform them about the situation and to propose solutions. "The country? clothing export turnover in the first five months of the year has dropped dramatically, particularly in the European and US markets. The poor performance stemmed from our low competitiveness in the context of the WTO removing the quota system for its members," Tuyen stated. With only US$1.7 bill

Mirco Bertocchi isn't waiting to see the outcome of China's tensions with the United States and Europe over surging textile exports. He's too busy selling Italian-made weaving looms to Chinese mills. "If you cry, you don't solve the problem," Bertocchi, a sales manager for Panter Textile Machinery in Gandino, near Milan, Italy, said Friday at the annual Shangtex trade show. About 1,300 companies from the United States, Europe, Japan and elsewhere were displaying looms, knitting machines an

LANXESS is exhibiting its range of textile processing chemicals (TPC) at Shanghaitex in Shanghai from June 3-7, 2005. The exhibit will focus on BAYPROTECT stainblockers for carpets and floorcoverings, BAYSCENT for aromatherapy finishing of fabrics and TASTEX, a softener and function carrier for finishes based on cosmetic substances. LANXESS TPC products are used in the pretreatment and finishing of textiles as well asin dyeing and textile printing."For our customers we develop solutions that giv

Washington reimposed a very surprising quota on combed cotton yarn imports from China. Shipments of Chinese yarns did not more surge than imports from other origins in the first quarter this year, especially when compared with Pakistani and Indian yarns. Prices of Chinese yarns were not dramatically lowered when compared with other products, in addition. The United States strangely reimposed a limit on imports of combed cotton yarns from China in category 301. If surging shipments from China m

Tucked away in Bristol, Va., in the southwestern corner of the state on the Virginia/Tennessee state line, Universal Fiber Systems LLC (UFS) has been producing fibers and yarns for carpet, upholstery, automotive, industrial and other textile applications since it was founded in 1969 as CaMac. The company claims it was one of the first to introduce solution-dyed nylon 6 to the market, and also among the first to develop solution-dyed bulk continuous filament (BCF) nylon. Other solution-dyed produ

Germany-based DyStar Textilfarben GmbH & Co. Deutschland KG has invested $55 million to establish a new dye facility in China.The facility ?the company? third in that country ?will be located northwest of Shanghai in Nanjing. It will manufacture dyes for man-made and cellulosic fibers, and will create 400 jobs. Production is scheduled to begin in the first half of 2006.The official groundbreaking ceremony was attended by representatives from the regional government and the Nanjing Chemical a

New varieties of super resistant and fast growing genetically modified (GM) cotton will be tested in six Mpumalanga and Limpopo towns.The field trials ?near Groblersdal, Malelane, Marble Hall, White River and Schoemanskloof in Mpumalanga and Musina in Limpopo ?will be the third carried out in South Africa by multinational agricultural biotechnology company, Monsanto.Monsanto spokesperson Magda du Toit said on Tuesday the field trials are part of a larger programme to develop commercial grade cot

Over 50 per cent of leather and footwear businesses in Vietnam? Ho Chi Minh City have no existing orders, with some being forced to halt production, Asia Pulse reported an official from the Vietnam Leather and Footwear Association (Lefaso) as saying. The official said that a large number of the EU? footwear orders below the wholesale price of US$1.5 per pair are now headed for Chinese manufacturers. Vietnam's footwear exports to the EU market fell 7.5 per cent in the first four months after g

A scalable web-based solution that brings merchandisers, designers, sourcing managers, vendors, suppliers and retailers together to share a single version of product, trim and fabric information has been launched by Fashionware Solutions Inc. The online tool, called Fashionshare, enables apparel companies to merchandise, plan and design product lines, manage individual colours and seasonal palettes, source fabric and trim, and communicate all relevant information across their entire organisatio