Nylgold – a new innovative luxury fibre featuring 24-carat gold nanostructure – was launched at Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics by Nylstar, specialists in polyamide 6.6 fibres and yarns for more than 80 years.
Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics was held in October at Shanghai New International Expo Centre, Shanghai, China.
Nylstar said that Nylgold offers continuous and effective care of the skin, and that it represents a new era in textiles – “the era of dermawear.”
The key to Nylgold is its integration of the NYG nanosystem, a new breakthrough in nanotechnology with revolutionary biological properties. Hyaluronic Acid (HA) molecules are bound to 24-carat gold nanoparticles to generate the NYG nanosystem, with HA molecules directly mounted on the surface of a gold nanoparticle, forming a novel nano-structure composed by a gold core and a HA shell. Each gold nanoparticle carries thousands of HA molecules. Nylgold is created when the NYG nanomaterial is integrated in nylon fibres using a new process developed by Nlystar. The company has said that Nylgold’s use of nanoparticles offers anti-oxidant, moisturising and anti-ageing benefits for products using the new fibre.
Nylstar is focusing Nylgold primarily on the underwear market, but the fibre can also be used in active wear, T-shirts, stockings, socks, therapeutical wear, wellness wear and shapewear.
Raul Gonzalez, head of marketing and international strategic development at Nylstar, said: “Nylgold is for the very top end of the market – it represents a combination of luxury, beauty, and anti-ageing through its protection of the skin. The fibre has been designed for use by highend brands which have special design capabilities.”
The Zonal Technology Management and Business Planning & Development unit of the Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology (CIRCOT), Mumbai in association with Fiber2Fashion, the global B2B portal for the textile, apparel and fashion industry is organizing a ‘Business Development Programme for Cotton Technologies’ at the Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA), Vastrapur, Ahmedabad on January 7, 2010 at 10 AM.
The objective behind hosting the meet is to showcase the latest cotton technologies. This business development programme intends to bring cotton industry and scientists from The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) to discuss about the opportunities on setting up of knowledge based enterprises using agri-technologies.
Indian Council of Agricultural Research under National Agricultural Innovation Project scheme has started the “Zonal Technology Management and Business Planning & Development” unit at CIRCOT, Mumbai in the year 2008. Role of Business Planning and Development unit (BPD) is considered as an effective tool for fostering the growth of sustainable technology-based business endeavour and this facility is expected to provide a wide range of services ranging from incubation and research support to business planning and business services such as office space, access to information and communication technologies, advice on management, marketing, technical, legal, IPR and financial issues.
The BPD Units are also expected to promote entrepreneurial attitude and raise awareness about the technology driven business opportunities that the entrepreneurship can bring into the local business environment. Currently BPD has 40 registered members who have shown interest in availing CIRCOT technologies. The profile of the members ranges from seed processing to garment manufacturing. These members are updated constantly about technologies of their interest and meetings were arranged for their interaction with the scientists. BPD is providing various business incubation services like interaction with scientists and business support services to these registered members.
Delegates from eight African cotton growing countries which include Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe were in India for a fortnight to study the cotton textile value-chain in India.
On the last leg of their visit, they were in Gujarat for three days in which in the first two days they visited cotton ginneries, a handloom centre, met cotton growing farmers, met state government officials and also paid a visit to the garmenting facility of Arvind Ltd, the textile major in India.
On the last day of their tour, a meeting between these African delegates and those from across the cotton textile value-chain, beginning from seed producers to exporters was hosted in Ahmedabad. The representatives from Gujarat got an opportunity to meet and discuss various business opportunities sitting across the table with members from the African delegation.
Speaking about his experiences to fibre2fashion, the team leader from Kenya, Mr Micah Powon, CEO - Cotton Development Authority – Kenya said, “The cooperative movement in Gujarat is very strong and the cooperation between farmers, ginners and spinners is very good. We got to see and learn firsthand a lot of things over here and since the cooperative movement in Kenya is not very strong; we can implement the same model in our country.
“Secondly, there is a huge potential to export raw cotton from Kenya to India and also on our visit to a textile mill in Ahmedabad, we saw a huge potential as it produces world-class textile products which can be imported by Kenya as well as we would also like to collaborate with them.
Thailand's Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited has signed agreements with Korea's SK Chemicals Company Limited to acquire the entire issued capital of SK Eurochem Sp. z o.o., in Poland and PT SK Keris together with its subsidiary PT SK Fiber in Indonesia.
The acquisitions will consolidate Indorama Ventures (IVL) position in the two important emerging markets of East Europe and Southeast Asia with Polyethylene Terephthalate resin (PET) and Polyester Fibres and Yarns businesses. SK Eurochem is a 140,000 tons per annum PET manufacturing facility while SK Keris is a 160,000 tons per annum PET and Polyester Filament Yarn manufacturing facility and SK Fiber Indonesia is a Polyester Filament Yarn manufacturing facility with a capacity of 36,000 tons per annum.
Mr. Aloke Lohia, Group CEO of Indorama Ventures Pcl, said, "The business and markets of these SK Chemicals' assets are in new and attractive geographic regions that Indorama has been keen to develop. These acquisitions will allow the Company to build upon its objective of expanding its global platform by entering emerging markets with high long-term potential for demand. This will also strengthen our value proposition to our regional and global customers and stakeholders alike, while further reinforcing our ongoing focus on the Polyester value chain."
Indorama Ventures has built up a strong brand with cost leadership position in the Polyester value chain. The acquisition in Poland is virtually integrated with a third party supplier of Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA), further consolidating the Company's low cost structure.
The Indonesian assets very much mirror the earlier announced acquisition of parts of Invista in USA and Mexico, in that they produce differentiated polymers and fibres that complement Indorama Ventures portfolio of speciality products. Indorama will now be amongst the largest producer of polymer for films to serve markets in Asia, Europe, USA and Latin-America.
Aqua-Chem Inc, a complete water purification solution provider, and its teaming partner, Enviro-Solutions, LLC, an industrial water treatment equipment and chemical firm, announced that initial results from an innovative pilot project with a high-volume U.S. carpet manufacturer demonstrate that it is both practical and economically feasible to simultaneously remove dye and other contaminants from wastewater used in large-scale carpet manufacturing.
The project, which began last week, shows we can produce potable quality water, and maintain an 80% recovery rate from wastewater that is typically sent to sewers after the manufacturing process, while also extracting valuable heat from the water for reuse in production at the facility.
David Gensterblum, President & CEO of Aqua-Chem, said, “We believe this is the first time that dye separation and water purification have been successful as a one-part process for a high-volume manufacturing facility. While the process employed is a major step forward in water conservation for the carpet industry, it also has wide applications for manufacturers in other water-intensive industries. With the ability to recycle at least 80% of their wastewater, manufacturers will conserve millions of gallons of water per year, taking green manufacturing to a whole new level.”
Bentley Prince Street Inc has been honored by the industry with Interior Design Magazine's Best of Year Award for its Domestic Alchemy broadloom carpet collection. For the past five years, Interior Design Magazine has used the Best of Year Awards to give architects, facility managers and interior design professionals the opportunity to express their opinions.
The votes have been tallied and the design community has spoken - Domestic Alchemy has been named the Best of Year winner in the Broadloom Carpet category for 2010. Also described as the Soft Hard Surface , Domestic Alchemy is a vibrant and lustrous, metallic-inspired flat weave product made in the USA. Its tightly woven texture appears as sleek and uniform as any hard surface, making Domestic Alchemy the perfect solution for highly visible, open areas such as retail spaces, convention centers, educational and healthcare facilities, as well as corporate environments.
"From the moment we previewed Domestic Alchemy at NeoCon this year, we knew we had something special," says Anthony Minite, president of Bentley Prince Street. "This product is unlike anything else available in the marketplace; it is exciting, functional, and gives our customers endless style and design possibilities. We are very proud of this collection and honored that it has been selected as the industry's best new broadloom product."
Bentley Prince Street had a total of three products nominated for Best of Year, including Modern Block carpet tile in the modular product category, and both Modern Block and Domestic Alchemy in the broadloom product category. Voting was open to industry professionals and winners were announced during an awards ceremony in New York on December 2, 2010. Winners will be featured in the December issue of Interior Design Magazine and appear in Interior Design Best of Year hardbound commemorative book.
The Dow Chemical Company announced that it plans to increase ethane cracking capabilities on the U.S. Gulf Coast over the next two to three years, and improve its ethane cracking capabilities by 20 – 30 percent in this timeframe.
In addition, Dow announced it is reviewing joint venture options for building a Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) Fractionator to secure this supply of ethane.
Both actions are intended to capitalize on the current favorable supply dynamics in North America, and further bolster the competitive advantage of Dow’s Plastics franchise, as well as its high-margin, downstream performance businesses.
Dow is the world’s largest ethylene producer. The Company plans to use its well-developed infrastructure to participate with producers in fractionation, transportation and storage of NGLs.
Dow produces approximately 55 percent of the Company’s ethylene from ethane, and the Company’s competitive U.S. cost position provides a key strategic advantage for its higher-margin specialty plastics businesses, such as Linear Low Density Polyethylene, as well as its Performance and Advanced Materials businesses.
“Ethane is an advantaged feedstock in the United States and we anticipate a favorable oil to gas ratio to continue,” said Raja Zeidan, Global Business Vice President for Dow Hydrocarbons. “Bringing additional fractionation capacity online and expanding our ethane cracking capabilities will further improve Dow’s feedstock flexibility and competitive positions in the United States. Couple that with our feedstock flexibility in Europe and with our advantaged feedstock positions in the Middle East, Western Canada and Argentina, we truly have a competitive advantage – evidenced by the strong returns delivered by Dow’s ethylene derivatives this year.”
Dow combines the power of science and technology with the "Human Element" to passionately innovate what is essential to human progress.
American Textile Company (ATC) continues its growth in manufacturing bed pillows and utility bedding by announcing the opening of a new manufacturing and distribution facility in Tifton, Ga.
The 218,000 square foot facility, leased from the Tifton County Development Authority, is strategically located to service ATC's customers in the Southeast. The state-of-the-art manufacturing facility will begin by manufacturing bed pillows, one of the key items offered by ATC. "The opening of the Tifton facility completes our strategic nationwide pillow distribution strategy," said John Riccio, Chief Financial Officer for ATC.
"With pillow manufacturing facilities in Duquesne, Pa.; Salt Lake City, Ut.; Dallas, Tx.; and now Tifton, Ga., we can efficiently ship bed pillows across the United States and Canada. We are thrilled with our interaction at the state and local level that executed this plan in a short period of time."
In addition to Georgia's pro-business climate, the company selected the Tifton, Ga. location from among competitive sites due to its strategic location to customers with distribution centers in the Southeast, access to a skilled textile workforce, low cost of doing business, and incentives provided by the State of Georgia.
Customers with distribution points in the Southeast will benefit from a significant reduction in their freight costs. "Providing cost effective and efficient service to our customers is the cornerstone to our continued success," said Mark Bachner, Senior Vice President of Manufacturing for ATC.
Today, Mr Maheshwar Sahu – Principal Secretary (Industries), Govt of Gujarat, echoed what was conveyed by cotton ginners of Gujarat and reported exclusively by fibre2fashion, that there is an urgent need to set up more spinning mills in Gujarat.
Mr Sahu was present at the road show organised by the Ministry of Textiles to popularize the extended ‘Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks’ in India
Fibre2fashion had reported and is worthwhile mentioning again that, Gujarat which is the biggest producer of cotton in India, sends 70 percent of its raw cotton output to other states and the yarn produced out of that cotton, again comes back to Gujarat for value-addition into fabrics, which increases the costs to a great extent.
To a question from fibre2fashion, about ginners who had raised these concerns, Mr Sahu said, “We have received feedback from 5-6 top industrial houses on the need to have more spinning mills in the state, which we are examining in minute detail.
