Industry

Coats Digital Launches AI Assistant Using Microsoft’s Azure

Textile Insights December 23, 2023

Coats Digital is propelling its technology solutions into the AI era with the launch of a new AI Assistant to improve customer service and open up innovative, new opportunities across the fashion supply chain. The new AI service using Microsoft’s Azure AI solutions, Coats Digital’s developers

Fabric

Teijin Develops Fabric With Properties Of Nylon & Polyester

Textile Insights December 19, 2023

Teijin Frontier has developed Microft MX, made from blending nylon and polyester filaments giving the fabric, abrasion resistance and colour development capabilities of nylon, and quick-drying properties and shape stability of polyester. According to a Teijin press release, the Microft MX is a next generation, high-quality, high-performance material and is made from

Machinery

Webspector Automated Fabric Inspection System Becomes A Hit

Textile Insights December 4, 2023

Shelton Vision after having demonstrated its WebSpector automated fabric inspection system detecting faults on camouflage fabrics at speeds of up to 100 metres a minute at ITMA 2023 has secured an unprecedented number of new orders. “The company has subsequently been recruiting additional staff in order to beef up its operations to meet delivery times […]

Trade & Market

Peru Launches Investigation Of Chinese Fabric Imports

Textile Insights November 18, 2023

The South American country of Peru has initiated an investigation into import of 100 percent polyester fabrics from China. A Peruvian textile company Tecnologa Textil S.A, requested the government to launch an anti-circumvention investigation into 100 percent polyester fabrics originating from China. The purpose is to examine whether the products originating in China were

Industry

Andhra Pradesh Mills Seek Govt Support To Tide Over Crisis

Textile Insights November 2, 2023

The Andhra Pradesh Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has sought the support of the state due to the critical situation facing the textile industry in the state. APTMA cited several challenges, including escalating cotton prices, dwindling yarn prices, surging power charges, and the post-COVID market imbalance all of which have severely impacted the industry’s financial

Industry

Textile Value Chain Running On Minimum Order Levels: ITMF

Textile Insights October 7, 2023

The entire textile value chain is running on minimum levels of orders and as long as brands and retailers do not increase orders, the entire textile value chain will continue to struggle. This was the analysis of the International Textile Machinery Federation’s (ITMF) Global Textile Industry Survey (GTIS) conducted in the middle of September 2023. […]

Fabric

GTT Partners Haartz On PFAS-Free Textile Fabric Finishing

Textile Insights September 28, 2023

The Haartz Corporation, a producer of highly engineered and uniquely designed textile materials and Green Theme Technologies (GTT), an innovator of waterless and PFAS-free textile finishing announced a partnership to revolutionise how textiles are finished in the US. The first of its kind in the North American market, GTT’s PFAS-free and waterless Empel textile finishing