Recently added articles from Asian Textile Business:

Japan Quality Gains High Evaluations

Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Stable Quality With Little Color Variation Interview With Yoshiharu Kaihara Chairman (C.E.O.), Kaihara Corporation ATB: Would you describe the production status of denim in 2006? Kaihara: In the first half, "Japan Quality" denim for premium jeans in the U.S. was ...

Transformation Into Groovy Adults

Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Challenging the Development of New Markets Kishida: Society of Disparities Create the Market for High-Income Group Tajiri: We Stand Alone, and We Will Leave No Fortune for Our Children ATB: Will the retirement of the baby boomer generation create new ...

Lightweight Knitted Fabrics Gain High Evaluations - A-Girl's

Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Apparel Making in Japan and Hong Kong Boost Delivery of Made-Ups Knitted fabrics produced byA-Girl's Co., Ltd. have gained enhanced popularity among influential brands in Europe and the U.S. The contributing factor to higher evaluations is high-grade knitted fabrics produced by the ...

Thailand: The Textile & Apparel Industries Shift to Structuring New Business Model

Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Export-oriented companies including Japanese-affiliated firms in Thailand are suffering from a higher baht. Since Thailand is a major exporting nation, the impact of the rising baht is heavy not only on textiles, but also on automobiles, marine products and electronic items as well. Naturally, a ...

Middle East Market: Oil Money and High Quality Support Favorable Exports

Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Japanese fabric exports to the Middle East, centering on thobe fabrics, generally remained in a favorable condition in 2006, and if things continue as they are, exports are likely to remain at this level this year as well. The high appreciation of Japanese-made quality fabrics in the Middle East ...

Cellulosic Fibers & Textiles

Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Active Rayon Staple for Spinning Use Rayon staple for spinning use is buoyant. In addition to a substantial increase in demand within China, rayon staple for spinning is in a tight situation on a global basis, partly because of the withdrawal of rayon producers. Consequently, there are ...

Denim & Jeans: Latest Movements in Japan

Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Denim has definitely taken a solid hold again as a fashion material in the Japanese apparel industry after repeating a number of jeans booms. Against a backdrop of that situation, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology launched the "Program for the ...

JC, Japan's Largest Textile Exhibition

Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Favorable Response to Exhibition Zones by Objective Japan Creation (JC), Japan's largest exhibition for textile business negotiations, will be held from May 9th to 11th at Tokyo Big Sight in Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo. Last year, this exhibition changed to be held twice a year. In ...

Japanese Textile Industry in 2007 Through Insight Into Keywords

Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... First Step to IC Tag Standardization Sumikin Bussan Corporation-Flandre Co., Ltd. In the middle of January, an experiment to introduce IC tags began between Sumikin Bussan Corporation and Flandre Co., Ltd. Since the effectiveness of IC tags can serve as an excellent tool toward ...

AAMA-TEX 2007 (March 20th to 23rd, Singapore)

Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... The 7th Asia Apparel Machinery & Accessories Exhibition (AAMA-TEX 2007) will be held from March 20th to 23rd at the Singapore Expo in Singapore. Since its inception in 1989, AAMA-TEX has been a one-stop venue for both buyers and sellers to do serious business. This was evident at the ...

German Textile Machinery: Successful on the Road to ITMA

Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... 2007 is far from being an ordinary year for the German textile machinery industry, since it will witness the first ITMA in Munich. The textile machinery branch of VDMA is delighted that ITMA comes back to Germany after 16 years, and preparations for this event are in full blast. ITMA ...

Latest in Spinning Machinery

Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Murata Machinery Lenzing Expresses Thanks for Technological Collaboration With "Vortex" Spinning On December 20,2006, Murata Machinery, Ltd. received a letter of thanks from the Lenzing Group of Austria in recognition of the contribution of Murata's "Vortex" spinning to the ...

Quota-Free Era: Changes in the Last Two Years

Apr 01, 2007; Saheed, A H H ... The Multi-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) under which quotas emerged was put in place in 1974 to protect the textile and apparel industries in advanced nations. The quota system restricted global textile and apparel trade, but it also provided poorer nations a market in advanced nations. Currently, ...

China: Shandong Apparel Exports in Crisis Atmosphere

Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Exports of apparel produced in Shangdong Province are in a crisis atmosphere never experienced before. According to the local media, contributing factors are rising manufacturing costs within China, a rapid growth in neighboring countries, and among other things, a slowdown of Chinese exports to ...

China: U.S. Anti-Dumping Duties on Chinese PSF

Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... On December 16, 1006, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the preliminary determination of antidumping duty investigation on exports of Chinese-made polyester staple fiber (PSF). According to the announcement, the antidumping duties of the three surveyed Chinese ...

China: 200,000-Ton Polyester Plant Starts Operation

Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Jiangsu Hengli Chemical Fiber Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the Jiangsu Hengli Group recently completed the second phase of a 200,000-ton/year polyester filament production project with a total investment of 1,800 million yuan, and officially started operation The completion of that project ...

China: Jan.-Oct. Chinese Textile Machinery Exports Up 44%

Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Chinese textile machinery exports from January to October 2006 totaled US$1,027 million, showing a high growth of 44.0% from the year-ago level. Of this total, knitting machines ...

Korea: Crisis Atmosphere in Textile Exports

Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Among the Korean textile industry, a pessimistic view has become prevalent on the future course of exports because of a strong concern for the Korean won rising up to 850 won against the US dollar. So far, it has been said generally that US$1=960 won is the break-even point in textile ...

Korea: Synthetic Fiber Equipment Investments Down 38%

Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Equipment investment for this year in the synthetic fiber industry is expected to fall 38% from the preceding year, It has become clearly visible that synthetic fiber firms have become extremely cautious about equipment investment as a reflex of recession. According to a survey of ...

Indonesia: Textile Machinery Moving Actively

Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Changes in the business trend have not been visible yet since the start of this year; however, many engineers from Europe are seen working on installing machinery in the textile producing districts in the central part of Indonesia like Java, in addition to Tangerang. Furthermore, ...