A US technical textiles firm has become the first in the country to install a Copcentra Max 5 warp knitting machine, a system which is now sold under the Karl Mayer Liba Textilmaschinenfabrik GmbH brand.?
With ultra-lightweight textiles featuring significantly across the trends in both the sportswear and haute couture sectors, Karl Mayer says that the open tulle grounds produced on the HKS 3-M and similar warp-knitted fabrics are proving increasing popular with its customers.
Groz Beckert?s new Vo-LC generation has been designed to provide knitting mills with ultrafine knitted fabric with a perfectly uniform loop structure, the capability to run machines at the highest possible speeds and reliability in production.
Delta Galil is continuing to expand its portfolio with the acquisition of another underwear brand as well as a new licensing partner for its Schiesser label. Isaac Dabah, CEO of Delta Galil also recently admitted that the company failed with an attempt to buy Italian underwear brand La Perla.
Crystal Group, one of Asia?s largest knitwear manufacturers, is rolling out it Higg Index adoption right across its operations and says its new factories in Cambodia and Bangladesh will employ version 2.0 of the Higg Index by 2015.
Eco-Textile Labelling Guide 2014 - Published May 2014
The?publishers of?Knitting Trade Journal?will publish a new, updated and improved?version of the Eco-Textile Labelling Guide in May 2014.
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