Textile Asia

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  Año 2014, Vol. 45, Número 1 (January)

  • Company index

    pág. 2

    

  • Editor's page:: 3D printing for texriles: ready for prime time?

    Max Sung

    pág. 3

    

  • Special reports:: Sustainability isn't just an option, it's critical to business success

    Alpana Shrestha

    págs. 4-5

    

  • Special reports:: China still dominates the fibre market

    Vicky Sung

    págs. 5-10

    

  • Special reports:: Cotton price: optimism in the air

    págs. 10-11

    

  • Regional notes:: Bangladesh: Wage rise, strong taka make garment exporters jittery

    pág. 12

    

  • Regional notes:: Pakistan: EU door opens wide.- Archroma opens SET plant in Jamshoro

    pág. 13

    

  • Regional notes:: Sri Lanka: EU buyes less, but exports up.- GLO in Sri Lanka

    A.H.H. Saheed

    pág. 13

    

  • Exhibitions & conferences:: Interfilière Hong Kong sets eighth show in April.- Apparelsourcing and Texworld in Paris.- Interstoff Asia Essential.- Hosiery expo.- Indian handloom textile fair in Chennai.- ITSAF and ITSH.- Fashion Access for fall/winter collections

    págs. 14-17

    

  • Exhibitions & conferences:: HK symposium on intimate apparel.- Index in Geneva with awards for innovations.- 10-day training for everyone in cotton.- Textile machinery fair in Jakarta.- World Merino confab.- Textile and garment machinery show

    págs. 17-18

    

  • Exhibitions & conferences:: Cinte Techtextil will stand alone in Sept.- ICA annual meet.- ITMF meet in China.- OTM in Turkey.- ICAC Plenary in Greece.- Nonwovens confab in Sao Paulo next year.- A strategic shift for Texprocess.- Nonwoven products show in Shanghaii

    págs. 18-19

    

  • Products & technology:: Hyosung creora.- Colourfastness tester for textiles and leather.- Compact winder for technical yarns.- Fine glass filament processing made easy.- Here comes a truly flushable wet wipe.- Just swipe the sleeve to activate cell phone

    págs. 20-23

    

  • Products & technology:: Leather or textiles, KL110 can stitch them all.- New benchmark set for polyester fibre making.- Pulse generator with long life.- 3D effect for embossed motifs.- Dicrylan for deeper shades of colour.- Firebird, a new DTG ink

    págs. 23-24

    

  • Products & technology:: No wash, but clothes stay free of smell and germs.- Partners for developing new functional textiles.- 3D printing, the new way to make products.- Straw-wool blend for upholstery fabric.- Smart shoes to help the disabled use computers

    págs. 24-26

    

  • Technical features:: Alkali pre-treatment and selective oxidation of proteomic cotton

    Shuai Ding, Wang Zhangzhen

    págs. 27-28

    

  • Technical features:: Weaving: a way to cut cost and increase production

    S. G. Kulkarni, Sanjay V. Koravi

    págs. 29-33

    

  • Technical features:: The potential of RFID technology in textile and clothing industry

    Nikhil Bhosale, Bajirao Jadhav, Shahanawaj Mujawar, Vishnu Pareek

    págs. 33-34

    

  • Technical features:: Indian carpet industry and its way forward

    Amit Sengupta, Mayur Basuk

    págs. 34-37

    

  • Executive desk

    págs. 38-39

    

  • Events calendar

    págs. 40-41