Groz Beckert offers high speed solution
Groz Beckert has been awarded a patent for a new type of knitting needle for use in high-speed circular knitting machines.
Invista announces further job cuts
GEORGIA ? Fibre manufacturer Invista, famous for its Lycra brand, is
temporarily shutting down a yarn processing plant and laying off a quarter of
its 200 workers at its facility in Athens,
Georgia.
Flat knitting
Green light for delayed Ludhiana textile park
LUDHIANA – After three years of delays, up to 80 Indian knitwear firms are
set to relocate into a new textile park in Ludhiana after the scheme was finally given
approval.
Milano Unica ponders non-EU exhibitors
MILAN ? Italian textile show Milano Unica could
be on the verge of allowing companies from outside the European Union, and in
particular Japan, to exhibit at the show for the very first time.
A seamless partnership for sportswear
ISRAEL – Widely acknowledged as one of the world?s leading technical
designers of seamless sports and intimate apparel, Talya Hanan has developed
Vital eco-wear, a collection of high performance, bio-functional sportswear
garments produced using ?smart? and environment friendly processes and
materials.
New testing system for medical hosiery
HOHENSTEIN – The Hohenstein Institute has
introduced a specially adapted testing process to support manufacturers in the
development of knitted compression products for the medical sector.
Dogi looking to off-load Spanish facility
BARCELONA – Troubled elastic fabric manufacturer Dogi is seeking buyers for
its new production facility in El Masnou, according
to reports.
Gildan to close knitting plant and shift sock finishing
MONTREAL – Gildan Activewear says it is shifting its US sock finishing work to Honduras, eliminating 220 jobs at one of its Alabama plants and is closing a Virginia knitting plant with 180 employees.
Karl Mayer fans the flames with yarn JV
Obertshausen
– Karl Mayer has teamed up with Switzerland?s
Amsler Tex AG to produce a new fancy, special flame-effect yarn for producing
warp-knitted lace.
Fine tuning improves lace possibilities
OBERTSHAUSEN – With the market for lace
fabrics becoming more and more varied, the latest generation ML 45 system from
warp knitting specialist Karl Mayer is said to be an ideal solution for this
increasingly demanding market.
