Jute Industry's Experience.

Competition from synthetic materials has severely damaged India's jute industry. Over the last few years, both IJIRA and BTRA have played an improtant role in developing technologies for the diversification of the jute industry. These developments include new finishing techniques and improving the dyefastness of jute based fabrics.

Acrylic Polymers for the 1990s and Beyond

Federal environmental regulations will have an increasing effect on the coating industry. Inresponse, many companies are changing from solvent borne coatings to emulsion polymer based coatings to decrease the production of volatile organic chemicals. The most improtant of these coatings are latexes and acrylic polymers. However, curing or..

Japanese textile machinery sales still expanding

The level of Japanese textile machinery sales is assessed up to the end of 1991. Exprots account for 84 of sales currently, with the Asian market the most important for Japan. Whilst that market continues to grow the European and US markets have shrunk slightly. Imports of textile machinery into Japan nave remained fairly static meanwhile

P.R. China's machinery needs: how big - and how influential?

The experiences of Western companies attracted to China by the prespect of a large demand for textile machinery there are examined. The Chinese view, as well as those of Sulzer, Ruter and Saurer, is canvassed. The latest technical and economic data on China's textile industry are presented.

Dismal performance of textile machinery industry

The economic performance of the Indian textile machinery industry for the financial year 1992-93 is reported. Only the performance of the largest company in the sector - Ladshmi Mahine Works - is praised, the results for the other ten firms taken together making a poor impression.

Texile and clothing in Turkey. II

Turkey's apparel manufacturin gsector is examined. Turkish apparel manufacturers fall inot three broad categories: small workshops; medium-sized firms; and large, integrated plants. The existence of a large number of small firms, which operate on asubcontracting basis, results in a high level of flexibility. This fragmentation, however, i..

Internationalization of production by EC textile and colthing manufacturers

Internationl sourcing and subcontracting by European clothing manufacturers has grown rapidly in recent years. Research conducted for OETH (L'Observatoire European du Textile et de l'Habillement)-based on interviews with 165 clothing manufacturers and 53 textile manufacturers in six EC countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Nethe..

Cotton's share of world fibre use fell in 1992

The world consumption of cotton rose more slowly than that of other fibres during 1992 so that cotton's share of the world fibre market fell from 48.7 to 48.2, despite its 1 increase in consumption to 18.6 milion tons. World fibre consumption is forecast to rise by nearly 2 in 1993, with similar increases in 1994 and 1995.

World textile trade and production trends

World fibre consumptin grew by 1.3 in 1992, well velow rates in the late 1980s. Man-made fibres gained share as synthetic fibre output grew and wool production fell. With capacity increases in Asia, further growth in man-made fibres seems assured despite continued decline in cellulosic. 1992 was a mixed year for textile machinery, with fa..

Indian textile R&&D

The achievements of India's major textile research associations, set up since independence in 1947, are assessed. Today eight such co-operative method of research, rather than each individual enterprise funding its own, has proved cost effective for the Indian textile industry.