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Adient, Boeing joint venture to build aircraft seats

Automotive seating supplier Adient and aircraft maker Boeing have announced the formation of Adient Aerospace, a joint venture that will develop, manufacture and sell a...

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Hyosung supplying automotive carpet yarn for Lexus luxury sedans

Hyosung has announced that automotive carpets made of yarn it has developed have been used in the LS, the top-of-the-line Lexus model launched last year...

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British investment in new equipment for automotive textiles

Speciality warp knit manufacturer Baltex has made a £600,000 investment in its 10-year-old Basford, Nottingham, UK, factory.

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Ultrafine gel spun fibres offer potential for composites

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a process that can produce ultrafine fibres, which are exceptionally strong and tough.

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Metallised nonwoven technology for lightning strike protection

General Nano has launched VeeoVeil, a new lightweight, flexible, electrically conductive metallised nonwoven technology.

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Large Indonesian viscose facility to open in August

Asia Pacific Rayon (APR), an affiliate of pulp and paper giant Asia Pacific Resources International (April), is expected to complete construction of what is said...

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Working conditions improving in Cambodian garment factories, says ILO

A report released last month by Better Factories Cambodia (BFC), a programme of the International Labour Organization (ILO), found that compliance with working conditions regulations...

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Indonesia's textile exports up on rising competitiveness

By mid-December, Indonesian exports of textile and textile products in 2017 had reached a value of US$12.

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Philippine research institute launches programmes to boost textile industry

As part of the Philippine Tropical Fabrics month in January, the Department of Science and Technology at the Philippine Textile Research Institute (DOST-PTRI) announced that...

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Bangkok to host first roadside Uniqlo store in South East Asia

Fast Retailing, Japan’s leading casualwear chain operator, will open its first Uniqlo roadside shop in South East Asia in March.

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Garment 10 listed on Vietnam's UPCoM

Vietnamese clothing maker Garment 10 (Garco 10) has been listed on the Hanoi Stock Exchange. A total of 18.

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Support for hemp production in Russia

The Russian government has approved state subsidies for building and repairing factories that specialise in the production of fabrics from flax and hemp, which is...

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Tekstil-Kontakt to launch textile production in Bohuslav

Tekstil-Kontakt, a leading fabric supplier in Ukraine, plans to open a new cotton fabric production site called TK-Bohuslav Textile in Bohuslav, Kyiv region.

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Two garment factories to open in Mogilev

Sharm Premyer, the Belarusian branch of Smolensk, Russia-based knitted goods factory Sharm (a subsidiary of Rossiyskiy Trikotazh), will open garment factories in Krichev and Bobruisk,...

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New strategy for textile industry development in Moldova

A new strategy for the development of the textile industry is being designed by the government of Moldova, a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Romania to the west...

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Bolan opens new home textile factory in Bulgaria

Bolan Bulgaria has opened a new factory for the production of home textiles in Lovech, Bulgaria.

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