Mirco Bertocchi isn't waiting to see the outcome of China's tensions with the United States and Europe over surging textile exports. He's too busy selling Italian-made weaving looms to Chinese mills. "If you cry, you don't solve the problem," Bertocchi, a sales manager for Panter Textile Machinery in Gandino, near Milan, Italy, said Friday at the annual Shangtex trade show. About 1,300 companies from the United States, Europe, Japan and elsewhere were displaying looms, knitting machines an

LANXESS is exhibiting its range of textile processing chemicals (TPC) at Shanghaitex in Shanghai from June 3-7, 2005. The exhibit will focus on BAYPROTECT stainblockers for carpets and floorcoverings, BAYSCENT for aromatherapy finishing of fabrics and TASTEX, a softener and function carrier for finishes based on cosmetic substances. LANXESS TPC products are used in the pretreatment and finishing of textiles as well asin dyeing and textile printing."For our customers we develop solutions that giv

Washington reimposed a very surprising quota on combed cotton yarn imports from China. Shipments of Chinese yarns did not more surge than imports from other origins in the first quarter this year, especially when compared with Pakistani and Indian yarns. Prices of Chinese yarns were not dramatically lowered when compared with other products, in addition. The United States strangely reimposed a limit on imports of combed cotton yarns from China in category 301. If surging shipments from China m

Tucked away in Bristol, Va., in the southwestern corner of the state on the Virginia/Tennessee state line, Universal Fiber Systems LLC (UFS) has been producing fibers and yarns for carpet, upholstery, automotive, industrial and other textile applications since it was founded in 1969 as CaMac. The company claims it was one of the first to introduce solution-dyed nylon 6 to the market, and also among the first to develop solution-dyed bulk continuous filament (BCF) nylon. Other solution-dyed produ

Germany-based DyStar Textilfarben GmbH & Co. Deutschland KG has invested $55 million to establish a new dye facility in China.The facility ?the company? third in that country ?will be located northwest of Shanghai in Nanjing. It will manufacture dyes for man-made and cellulosic fibers, and will create 400 jobs. Production is scheduled to begin in the first half of 2006.The official groundbreaking ceremony was attended by representatives from the regional government and the Nanjing Chemical a

New varieties of super resistant and fast growing genetically modified (GM) cotton will be tested in six Mpumalanga and Limpopo towns.The field trials ?near Groblersdal, Malelane, Marble Hall, White River and Schoemanskloof in Mpumalanga and Musina in Limpopo ?will be the third carried out in South Africa by multinational agricultural biotechnology company, Monsanto.Monsanto spokesperson Magda du Toit said on Tuesday the field trials are part of a larger programme to develop commercial grade cot

Over 50 per cent of leather and footwear businesses in Vietnam? Ho Chi Minh City have no existing orders, with some being forced to halt production, Asia Pulse reported an official from the Vietnam Leather and Footwear Association (Lefaso) as saying. The official said that a large number of the EU? footwear orders below the wholesale price of US$1.5 per pair are now headed for Chinese manufacturers. Vietnam's footwear exports to the EU market fell 7.5 per cent in the first four months after g

A scalable web-based solution that brings merchandisers, designers, sourcing managers, vendors, suppliers and retailers together to share a single version of product, trim and fabric information has been launched by Fashionware Solutions Inc. The online tool, called Fashionshare, enables apparel companies to merchandise, plan and design product lines, manage individual colours and seasonal palettes, source fabric and trim, and communicate all relevant information across their entire organisatio

Textile and apparel imports from all sources showed a 10-percent growth in the first three months after quotas were removed in January, with India and China capturing a big share of that growth. Mexico, which at one time was the largest exporter to the United States, has fallen far behind China ?which now is the largest exporter of textiles and apparel to the United States.According to US Department of Commerce data, combined textile and apparel imports from China in the first three months of th

As the US government continues to restrict imports of Chinese textiles and apparel using the ?afeguard mechanism?permitted under China? accession to the Word Trade Organization (WTO), Chinese trade officials have cried ?oul?and are seeking ways to stop the process. First of all, China said the use of the safeguard mechanism was not in the ?pirit of free trade?and that it is simply being used as a scapegoat for the US textile industry? inability to compete. It said the United States and the Europ