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The American Apparel and Footwear Association, in collaboration with the Manufacturing Solutions Center (MSC), has released industry guidelines establishing testing standards for legwear, hosiery, and socks. Covering a range of issues - including product safety, labeling, and physical attributes such as color, fastness, and fit this resource provides useful, product-specific testing recommendations for the industry and its lab partners.

Rick Helfenbein, President and CEO of the American Apparel and Footwear Association says these testing guidelines are the latest in a series of member-driven tools that AAFA has released to help the industry ensure cost-effective solutions for common problems.

The legwear industry is unique explained Dan St Louis, Director of the Manufacturing Solutions Center at Catawba Valley Community College. Specific industry testing guidelines are long overdue to ensure the industry has the proper and specific guidance it needs to produce quality, compliant products.

This testing guidelines document is a free, open-industry resource that will be housed on the AAFA and MSC websites. Future versions will be released as updates become necessary.

Woolmark has partnered with Australian shopping centre Westfield to put the spotlight on wool this winter’s retail season. Australian wool is the star in a curated selection of winter accessories, boots, denim and apparel. The campaign supports local retailers, starring wool in a curated selection of winter accessories, boots, denim and apparel, and celebrates Australian merino wool, the growers who produce the fiber and the designers who use it.

Westfield and Woolmark are telling the farm to fashion wool story, recognising people who produce one of the most important fibers for fashion worldwide. The campaign gives customers inspiration on how to integrate wool into their new season wardrobe, alongside a wide range of winter footwear, accessories and apparel from a number of Australia’s favorite brands, all available at Westfield.

The initiative champions the eco-credentials of fiber and says it is the perfect choice for today’s conscious consumer and that, natural or biodegradable, wool provides the global apparel industry with the most renewable, recyclable and reusable fiber on the planet.

The event is not only an engaging way for consumers to experience the natural attributes and luxuriousness of Australian merino wool, it also offers Australian woolgrowers a window into the commercial aspect of the fiber they work hard to produce.

Circular Fibers is an industry-wide initiative to build a new global textile system based on the principles of the circular economy. The initiative has been launched by Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Circular Fibers brings together key industry stakeholders, such as H&M and Nike, to collectively define a vision for a new system that benefits businesses and citizens, and also phases out negative impacts such as waste and pollution.

The project will encourage businesses to shift away from the current take, make and dispose model, which puts high demand on land, energy and other resources. It aims at catalysing change across the industry by creating an ambitious, fact-based vision for a new global textile system, underpinned by circular economy principles, that has economic, environmental, and social benefits, and can operate successfully in the long term.

Textiles play an important role in the global economy. But a growing trend in consumerism has led to an inefficient waste and resource management system. In the US, for example, an estimated 85 per cent of clothing waste ends up in landfills.

Circular Fibers will provide an analysis of the textile industry. It will look at what a new circular economy for textiles could look like, and lay out the steps needed to build it.

China will be the next stop in Cividini's growth strategy. The men's and women's clothing brand, which was founded by Piero and Miriam Cividini in the late 1980s, generated 90 per cent of its €12 million turnover in 2016 from sales abroad.

Piero Cividini explains the company has made a deal with a local distributor, Singapore IFFG, to expand in the Far East over the next five years, with a network of ‘shop in shops' in some of China's most prestigious malls. The first store opened at the end of April in Shanghai, inside the Golden Eagle International Shopping Center. The day after a multi-brand IFF Gallery was inaugurated in Nanjing: 3,000 sq. mt. of space dedicated to high-end fashion, including Cividini's collections.

So far in 2017, the brand has shown signs of development, with a positive sales campaign: Piero Cividini, states that the orders for the fall winter 2017/18 season ended with a slight increase and the company is looking to end the year with a single-digit increase in sales. Cividini's main markets are Japan, where it has 20 shop-in-shops and 60 MBOs, and the United States, where they're present in 40 multi-brand boutiques.

The company from Gorle, near Bergamo, Italy, is present in 250 wholesale stores elsewhere throughout the world, in Italy, Europe, Russia, South Korea, and Taiwan. In order to reach their global clientele, the company enacted a development process that, according to the founder, the company has a great deal to do with the generational change and it is important to look for demographics that have different consumption habits.

Women make up the major share of Cividini's clientele, their menswear collection was launched only a few years ago and these clients appreciate the brand's quality and discreet elegance.

Wear Sustain, a collaboration between seven organisations across Europe, is a wearable technology project. It’s offering funding for teams of creatives and technologists to develop the next generation of sustainable wearables and e-textile ideas.

The program is seeking applications from teams of art, design, technology or engineering practitioners and businesses to co-develop compelling, ethical, innovative and sustainable solutions for wearable technology and e-textiles. It will help get great ideas off the ground and set a benchmark for ethics and sustainability in the technology field. The project represents an opportunity for people and businesses in different sectors to collaborate and also access real financial support and expertise in areas such as prototyping, business and venturing.

Competition applicants must address one of seven ethics and sustainability themes, such as manufacturing, waste, energy and health, as well as personal data and ethics, during the development of their prototypes. Wear Sustain’s goal is to develop best practices for future creative and technology collaborations. In addition, it will create sustainable and ethical innovation methodologies for wearable technology, smart and electronic textiles.

The program’s aim is to boost synergies between technology and the arts across Europe and highlight awareness of ethics in technology, using wearables and e-textiles to explore key issues such as personal data, ethics and sustainability in current technology use.

 

Gujarat to host Textile India on June 30

Textiles India will be held in Gujarat from June 30 to July 2, 2017. This will be a mega trade event for the textile and handicraft sectors, showcasing the entire range of Indian textile products from farm to fiber to fabric to fashion.

Textiles India 2017 will also provide an opportunity to participants to hold B2B meetings with around 2500 international buyers, international and Indian exhibitors, and 15,000 Indian buyers. Over 33 round-tables will also be held on issues of concern for the various segments of textiles and handicrafts with prominent international speakers and industry leaders.

The three-day event will also include global conferences on the last day with six different themes related to the textile sector. Textiles India is the first ever global B2B textile and handicrafts event in India. It holds the promise of becoming a landmark annual trade event for the Indian textile and apparel industry at the global level. It is celebrating the significant achievements of India's textile industry and the enormous promise of spectacular growth over the next few years.

India’s textile sector is a major contributor to overall industrial production, exports and employment. The textile sector is also rising on the new digital wave with players vying with each other to grab a higher share of online fashion.

 

In the past two years, Egypt has taken measures to restore seed purity and cotton quality. Egyptian cotton’s reputation and quality had deteriorated significantly due to the seed companies’ lack of effective quality assurance systems that resulted in inferior, mixed-variety output.

Egyptian cotton’s length, strength, firmness, color, trash count and maturity have all improved in 2016-2017 compared to 2015-2016. This development has increased demand and the prices for Egyptian cotton in local and international markets. Egypt’s cotton exports jumped 63.9 per cent during the first quarter of the planting season of 2016-17.

Internationally, retailers have begun to more closely monitor their products labeled as 100 per cent Egyptian cotton, many requiring manufacturers to provide attestation for products labeled as such. About 90 per cent of global supplies of Egyptian cotton last year were fake.

In an effort to crack down on fraudulent practices and ensure quality, the Cotton Egypt Association started licensing the use of the Egyptian cotton logo to suppliers and manufacturers all over the world. Carrying the logo means that the association certifies the authenticity of the Egyptian cotton. If Egypt’s cotton industry returns to its previous glory, the economy would flourish, the spinning and textile industries would boom, and stalled factories would reopen.

Cotton is a wonderfully versatile, all-natural fabric and is present in everything from bath towels and bed sheets to underwear, T-shirts, and socks. But cotton production is a mess. Fairtrade International argues that there’s such thing as better cotton, and shoppers should know the difference.

Fairtrade aims at reducing the social and environmental costs of cotton production. At a social level, genetic modification of cotton seeds has wreaked havoc in traditionally agrarian communities. In India, the second biggest cotton producer in the world after China, there has been a surge in farmer suicides. These tragic deaths are linked to genetically modified cotton and the ugly cycle of dependence on special seeds and chemicals. It’s estimated that, every 30 minutes, one farmer in India commits suicide, deep in debt and unable to provide for his family.

Environmentally, cotton growing is a disaster. Cotton accounts for 24 per cent of global sales of agricultural insecticides and uses a huge amount of water – approximately 20,000 liters of water are needed to produce one kilogram of cotton. Cotton production is linked to the destruction of the Aral Sea, the Indus River in Pakistan, the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia, and the Rio Grande in the US and Mexico.

Turkish textile company Birlesik Tekstil is planning to open a factory in Belgrade, Serbia by the end of this year. This was announced by Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali. The proposed factory will come up in the city’s Lazarevac municipality. Birlesik Tekstil has acquired a factory of insolvent local textile company Beko and is looking to appoint 600 employees by the end of 2017 and another 600 at a later stage to do business.

Serbia imports $180 million worth of textile from Turkey annually which is the reason why Serbia should attract Turkish investors here says Ljajic. Serbia plans to promote a model that involves the reconstruction of old and abandoned halls where interested investors could install machinery and immediately start production. The country’s exports to Turkey rose by 10.8 per cent to 30 billion dinars in 2016, while imports from Turkey increased 18.1 per cent to 74.3 billion dinars, according to data from Serbia’s statistical office.

Yarn production remains flat

Total yarn production in India is likely to remain flat in 2016-17. This is on account of an estimated 2.1 per cent fall in cotton yarn output. However, synthetic yarn output is expected to grow by 3.4 per cent due to a healthy demand for the yarn in the domestic market as well as overseas markets.

In 2016-17, high cotton prices drove yarn manufacturers towards synthetic fibers which were priced lower. Demand for cotton yarn from China, the largest buyer of Indian cotton yarn, declined. Demonetisation also affected yarn output during the year. Total yarn production is likely to increase in 2017-18. During the year, total yarn output is likely to grow 3.8 per cent. Production of cotton yarn is expected to rise by 4.8 per cent. Synthetic yarn output is likely to grow by 2.3 per cent during the year.

In 2017-18, demand for yarn in the domestic market is expected to be healthy. This is likely to be backed by an increase in yarn purchases by manufacturers of apparels, home textiles and fabrics. Factors such as urbanization, rise in per capita income, favorable demographics and a shift in preference for branded products will boost the demand for these products in the domestic market.

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