FLORENCE – Despite a quiet start to the 64th edition of Pitti
Filati,
a number of yarn spinners at the show remained quietly confident that the market
could begin to show signs of improvement in the second half of the year.
PARIS ? Can finer gauge single
jersey knits really get any finer? Austrian seamless apparel and circular knitter
Willy Hermann thinks so, saying at last week?s Interfiliere lingerie fabric
show in Paris that its R&D department is now looking to make new fabrics
above the current 60G technical threshold.
Willy Hermann is a specialist in
ultrafine gauge circular knitted fabrics of extremely high quality. The company
worked with German knitting machine builders to develop 44G ultra-fine gauge
interlocks in 2000 and then presented 50G and 54G fabrics in 2006. Last year, the company went
even finer with a new 60G fabric as part of its superfine range which also
includes high power elastane fabrics with as much as 30 ? 60% spandex content.
CHARLOTTE ? [27.01.09]
US-based The Hosiery Association (THA), in conjunction with The Hosiery
Technology Center (HTC), has created the new CPSC Legwear Coalition to work in
partnership with the Federal legislature and the Consumer Products Safety
Commission (CPSC).
COLOMBO ? Sinotex Lanka Limited, one of Sri
Lanka?s largest knitted garment manufacturers, is to shut down its operations
following a collapse in orders from US customers, the company?s major market.
FLORENCE – For its Spring Summer 2010
collection, Zegna Baruffa?s latest fine yarns collection includes a host of
luxury products including superfine wools, pure cashmere and a family of yarns
produced using the innovative supermelange technology.
PONTEFRACT ? Mowbray Communications is
delighted to announce that the launch issue of Knitting Trade Journal,
featuring authoritative, informed comment, news and technical features on all
aspects of the global knitting and hosiery industries, has now been published.
FLORENCE – The 64th edition of the Pitti Filati yarn fair will
include a ?Fashion at Work? theme dedicated to the most advanced services and
technologies for the textile/clothing industries and also feature the latest
developments in ecological and fair trade sustainable yarns.
ALBSTADT – Mayer & Cie has launched Technit
D3, a new machine design capable of fine rib knitted fabrics and 3D spacer
fabrics for use in the home textile, automotive and medical sectors.
BOENNIGHEIM – The level to which manufacturers
and retailers can evaluate the wear and comfort of knitted socks and gloves has
been boosted with the introduction new measuring equipment at the Hohenstein
Institute.
WINSTON-SALEM – Hanesbrands has begun
shipping products from its new 1.3-million-square-foot, environmentally friendly
distribution centre in California
aimed at more than quadrupling the company?s distribution capacity.
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