Yarn & Fiber
Lenzing Group achieves fourth best full-year results in its history
The Lenzing Group’s business developed well in the 2018 financial year. A significantly more challenging market environment led to a decline in revenue as well as earnings compared with the record results of the previous year. This was primarily caused by lower selling prices for standard viscose, exchange rate effects as well as higher raw material and energy costs.
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Yarn Expo Spring 2019 opens tomorrow, inviting 468 exhibitors from 12 countries & regions, including new exhibitors from Egypt and France, to capture the potential of the yarn and fibre market in China and abroad. The fair will be held from 12 – 14 March along with four concurrent events, including Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics, in hall 8.2 of the National Exhibition and Convention Centre (Shanghai). Before the show, Yarn Expo spoke to new exhibitor Cotton Council International (CCI), to see why they are choosing to exhibit at the fair this week.
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Representatives from INVISTA and the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP) signed a memorandum of cooperation at a ceremony today in Shanghai.
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Sinterama is celebrating 50 years of history by making conscious decisions for the future. By offering a limitless variety of specialist polyester yarns, and reflecting their core company values throughout their booth display, Sinterama Asia experienced high visitor footfall and back-to-back client meetings during Yarn Expo, their first ever fair in China. We sat down with Mr Ashish Puri, Managing Director of Sinterama Asia, to discuss how they present their greener solutions to the China market.
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Approaching any market in the textile industry requires hard work and smart strategies, but the China market presents its own unique challenges, as one of the world’s largest consumer markets. At Yarn Expo Autumn 2018, Novetex invested in their first year of participation, bringing eye-catching booth decorations to the fair. We spoke with Mr Max Ng, Production Control Director of Novetex, to discuss potential opportunities and challenges for overseas textile companies within China, and the reasons why they identified Yarn Expo as a gateway to the China market.
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The LYCRA Company introduces T859 LYCRA HyFit fiber
The LYCRA Company announced today that it will be exhibiting at IDEA19, where it will unveil T859 LYCRA HyFit [®] fiber, its latest spandex/elastane innovation for the global personal care industry.
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NAGNATA launches Merino wool activewear for conscious-minded women, in partnership with The Woolmark Company
In collaboration with The Woolmark Company, NAGNATA has launched a Merino wool range for SS19, with sustainable manufacturing, social responsibility and style at its core.
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Südwolle Group presents new weaving yarn qualities for fall / winter season 2020/21
What is the source of that feeling of harmony between origins and innovation, nature and technology which we define as human touch? It is a multi-sensory balance between man and nature under constant definition. The perfection of natural landscapes is influenced by the signs of human presence and by the complexity of personal relationships. It is an evolving multi-dimensional world, which Südwolle Group has been exploring for years with the intention to give voice to the wishes and needs of widely varying consumer categories.
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75% more Fancy Yarn Zone exhibitors at Yarn Expo Spring 2019
Yarn Expo Spring 2019 will see a significant increase in exhibitors at the Fancy Yarn Zone, with 125 exhibitors now set to display their latest fancy yarn collections. Yarn Expo consistently offers new options at each edition, with a wide array of yarn and fibre products, from fancy yarn to high-quality wool yarn, cotton, chemical fibres and many more. Over 460 exhibitors from 11 countries and regions will join the fair, including China, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Pakistan, Singapore, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and newcomer country Egypt.
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SGL Carbon and Augsburg University of Applied Sciences award students for a joint simulation game
In the winter semester 2018/2019, students of the Master program “Environmental and Process Engineering” of Augsburg University of Applied Sciences developed solution concepts for a specific task of SGL Carbon’s Meitingen site. The aim of the simulation game, in which a practical situation is simulated as realistically as possible, was to optimize the high-temperature processes in the graphitization furnaces in the "Fiber Materials" business area.
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TENCEL™ fibers for more comfort through Micro technology
At the Première Vision Lenzing presents TENCEL™ branded lyocell and modal fibers with Micro technology for enhanced comfort. Lenzing is with its fine fiber portfolio an expert in producing and marketing of Microfibers for the textile industry and gives this specialty fiber category a new boost.
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Teijin Frontier to participate in Première Vision Paris
Teijin Frontier Co., Ltd., the Teijin Group's fibers and products converting company, announced today that it will participate in Première Vision Paris, a major global event for fashion industry professionals that will be held in Paris from February 12 to 14.
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Trevira CS at Heimtextil 2019
At this year’s Heimtextil from 8-11 January 2019 in Frankfurt, Trevira GmbH presented a new Trevira CS joint stand on an impressively huge scale under the motto “Textile Values”. Its fair stand concept, scaled up for 2019, attracted a large number of visitors. Together with 26 top Trevira CS customers, Trevira told the story of the entire textiles value chain across a 2,200+ msq site. Visitors were taken on a journey that started with the basics – fibre production and yarn manufacture – before moving on to the dyeing, weaving and warp and weft knitting stages and ultimately to the end of the journey, the textile editing.
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