ICE Cotton Futures Ended One Percent as 73 Cent

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Cotton futures ended 1% lower on Monday, hitting a seven-month high in the previous session as investors were watching the monthly crop report ahead of higher prices.

New Cotton Production is Higher Than Expected in Pakistan

According to the statistics of Pakistan Cotton Ginning Association (PCGA), as of November 1, the cumulative amount of Pakistani new cotton market reached 1.383 million tons, an increase of 17.1% comparing with the 1.181 million tons production in last year. New cotton processing capacity of 1.146 million tons in 2017 and it was 966,000 tons of the same period in last year.

Comfortemp® Fiber Balls by Freudenberg Provide Better Thermal Performances

Freudenberg launches the world's first flakes made with fiber balls on ISPO MUNICH 2017 (Munich International Sporting Goods Fair). The garments with these comfortemp® fiber ball flakes have better performances in thermal resistance, light weight and air permeability.

Australian Company Launched the Unmanned Surface Boat with Composite Materials

Australian Ocius Technologies has released its 5.6m BluebottleStinger Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV). This autonomous UAV boat is designed by a diverse team of experts, including Ocius Technology, One-2-Three Naval Architects and Composite Materials Consulting Group (CCG). With decades of experience in solar-assisted sailing, Ocius developed the BluebottleStinger surface boat for continuous unattended monitoring on oceans.

Compression Garments can Reduce the Vibration of Your Muscles But Not Fatigue

When our muscles move, they will start to shrink due to vibration, and this will consume our energy, so that we feel tired during the sports. Therefore, it is generally believed that reducing muscle vibration can make us more relaxed. This is why we can normally find that long-distance runners are wearing compression garments. However, the research from Ohio State University shows that the compression wears is no use to reduce fatigue level, but has great benefits to improve the spirit of pleasure during the sports.

3D Print Underwired Bras from Evelyn & Bobbie

Evelyn & Bobbie, an underwear company in Oregon, was founded in 2013. Bree McKeen the founder was engaged in the financial industry. And she had been suffering from unable to find a comfortable bra for years. In order to solve this problem, she finally decided to create Evelyn & Bobbie.

McKeen said, "The invention of bra in 1933 is a great thing. And now so many years have passed, there is necessary for adding innovation in the bra design."

Japanese Companies March to Intelligent Apparel Industry

Japanese chemical manufacturers Asahi Kasei Industrial Co., Ltd. will march to the intelligent clothing industry at 2018 summer. They will focus on the products that can get access to human information. Asahi Kasei plans to combine the US subsidiary's medical devices with its own electrically conductive fiber products to develop the new products for first aid applications and other uses.

Women’s Dress Accounted for More Than Half of The Total Apparel Online Sales

Report from retail technology solutions provider Adobe shows: The main driving force for online women's sales growth is the introduction of new products. Adobe also pointed out in the report that women's online sales is far beyond the offline sales calculated as a percentage.

Three Raw Materials of Textile Price in Chinese Market

Cotton

Cotton price in Henan region is USD 2355.1 to 2399.2/ton. The double 29 quality of northern Xinjiang machine picking cotton price is USD 2325.6 to 2384.5/ton. The overall inventory is relatively low.

Polyester Staple Fiber Price Trends of June 7th

Prevailing price in Zhejiang and Jiangsu province market for 1.4D 38mm polyester staple fiber is USD 7.3 lower than June 5^th, with a little decrease.

Technology of Permanent Odor Recycling Control for Garment and Fiber Industry

Swedish company Polygiene cooperates with Italian yarn expert Sinterama to develop a permanent odor control technology for the first fiber grade 100% environmentally friendly recycling for the garment industry.

Polyester Staple Fiber Price Trends of June 5th

Prevailing price in Zhejiang and Jiangsu province market for 1.4D polyester staple fiber is USD 1117.2 to USD 1146.6 per ton. The market traded flat with the temporarily stable price.

AMSilk Reinforced the Development and Research Team for Biosteel Fiber

German biotechnology company AMSilk has appointed Martin Lankes as its senior fiber product manager. Mr. Lankes used to work for adidas as product staff of research and development.  But now he is responsible for supporting the AMSilk’s Biosteel fiber research and development.

Global Cotton Production will Be Substantial Surplus by 6.9% Increasing Rate

News from US media said, due to high prices of cotton lead to cotton farmers to expand the acreage, and China from the strategic reserves will be placed in the excess inventory to the market, the cotton supply will be substantial surplus.

According to the US Department of Agriculture estimates that in the August 1 this year, the beginning of the cotton season, global production will rise 6.9%, in addition to China's global inventory will record a record high. The United States is the world's largest cotton exporter, the US cotton farmers are expected to be the largest harvest in 10 years, Australia and India's cotton harvest will also increase.

US Border Tax Adjustment Could Hardly Have Struck European Luxury Brands

At the beginning of the year, the European luxury products market showed signs of recovery: the Chinese market rebounded, the number of tourists traveled to Europe rose, and even Swiss watch exports in last December achieved the first growth since 18 month. However, the new US President Donald Trump proposed "Border Tax Adjustment", may be cast a shadow over the European luxury products market.

Ivanka Becomes Popular in Chinese Trademark Registration

Just one week after Trump was elected president, a sanitary napkins company registered Ivanka Trump as its trademark in China. In Chinese market, Trump is also a trademark which is registered by a toilet manufacturing company.

Europe Starts Composite Carbon Fiber Project with Renewable Biomaterials

With the low weight and high tensile strength properties, carbon fiber is widely used in many industry or commercial fields. With the growing range of applications, carbon fiber industry faces many problems because of the depletion of fossil raw materials and its energy-intensive production processes.

Switzerland Revised the Toy Ordinance by Adopting EN 71 Safety of Toys

In December 1^st, 2016, Switzerland revised their Toys Ordinance (Regulation of the Federal Department of Home Affairs on the Safety of Toys) to strengthen the requirements for toys. The revised ordinance takes parts of EN 71. Switzerland follows EU legislation. But Switzerland is not a member of the EU, so there are still differences for regulations between them when Switzerland follows EU legislation.

The new intelligent heating material Flexwarm will be a product or a technique?

No matter what temperatures are of the outside, the team from Flexwarm is always focused on the work of ‘Heating and providing warm’. The products includes Jacket, bags, scarf, cup and other commodities.

Test Methods for Textile for Surgical Drapes, Gowns and Clean Air Suits, Used as Medical Devices

Textile for medical devices is a kind of textile including cloth made from yarn or fibers by weaving, knitting or other types of binding or manufacture and nonwoven materials. But medical device contains more parts, like single use and reusable surgical gowns, surgical drapes, clean air suits, surgical masks, surgical gloves, packing materials, foot and head wear and incision drapes.

Do You Ever Imagine That One Day Our Daily Life will be Changed by Intelligent Clothes?

Intelligent clothing will be the next developing direction of wearable devices while the smart and intelligent bracelets and watches are the mainstream for now. But we can find many smart and intelligent garment products on the market.

Principles of Moisture Management Testing for Textile

Moisture management test provides objective measurement and evaluation of moisture absorption and sweat evaporation performance for textiles. The results obtained by this test are based on water resistance, water repellency and water absorption characteristics of the fabric structure, including the fabrics’ geometric and internal structure and the wicking characteristics of its fibers and yarns.