PONTEFRACT – Knitting Trade Journal has taken a bold move by testing out new, translated versions of its website in both traditional and simplified Chinese, thus opening up a potentially lucrative new market for knitting industry suppliers.
OBERTSHAUSEN – Karl Mayer has developed a
new software system aimed at helping manufacturers and trainee textile
technologists accurately reproduce the required lapping structures in warp
knitted fabrics.
INNERLEITHEN – Italian textile supremo Massimiliano
Zegna Baruffa, former owner of yarn spinner Zegna Baruffa, has acquired a 55%
stake in Ballantyne, one of Scotland?s
oldest cashmere manufacturers.
TIRUPUR – India?s Apparel Export Promotion
Council (AEPC) has launched the Knitwear Technology Mission (KTM), a new
organisation set up to support the technological development of the country?s
knitwear exporters.
BOBINGEN ? Trevira has announced a new cost
cutting exercise that will see reductions at its manufacturing sites and a
series of job losses.
GREENSBORO – Unifi Inc. is to sell one of its production sites in North Carolina, USA for US$7 million.
REUTLINGEN – Outstanding new patterning possibilities and higher productivity
than previous machines makes the latest Knit & Wear technology from H.
Stoll popular across a number of its markets.
FLAGSTAFF – Gore Medical Products, a division of W. L. Gore & Associates,
has developed Gore Infinit Mesh, a new surgical fabric that it claims is the
first 100% monofilament, large-pore knitted surgical mesh constructed entirely
of PTFE, a chemically inert medical polymer.
AUSTRIA –
Lenzing has added to its Modal family of fibres with a new high performance variant
that can be used in 100% form in knitwear.
OBERTSHAUSEN
– Karl Mayer has adapted one of its high performance tricot knitting machines
to increase the production speed of warp knitted fabrics.
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