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Factory spins tons of plastic bottles into yarn in western Turkey’s Bursa “But we have arrived at a point where companies are reaching us without us doing anything. There is a great demand from abroad as well. “As a result of our long-standing Currently, because of the limits of our research and development project, we production capacity, we are unable to have become the first plant in Turkey meet all export demands,” he said. that produces yarn completely out of The yarn, which is internationally-accredited and recycled plastic bottles,” certified, could not be produced using conventional Every day, thousands of plastic bottles are saved from landfills and spun into 5 tons of yarn that are exported around the world from a textile firm in western Turkey’s prominent industrial center Bursa.

General Director Erman Ilıman told Anadolu Agency. Having started up as a family firm in 2009, the company now exports its products to 20 countries.

“We didn’t really expect this much interest in this product,”

admitted Ilıman, adding that the company initially faced challenges since the product had never before been marketed in Turkey.

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methods, Ilıman said.

“This is a feat of process engineering; we have used self-developed know-how to transform plastic waste into fiber and yarn.” The plastic bottles used by the company are collected from several locations, such as schools, hospitals, hotels and various institutions, and then processed in fiber.

“Our daily production capacity is 5 tons of yarn, and we want to raise it to 20 tons by 2019 and 40 tons by 2020,” said

Ilıman, adding that they processed around 200 tons of plastic bottles monthly and aimed at increasing this figure to 1,000 tons by 2020.

Useful in numerous sectors, such as industrial weaving and knitting as well as furnishing and curtain production, increasing yarn production contributes to the Turkish economy, Ilıman said. Turkey has pioneered recycling efforts in recent years, both through awareness initiatives to empower individual consumers and also recycling infrastructure to take advantage of the resources discarded in the trash. A recent effort by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IBB) aims to increase the volume of renewable waste collected from Istanbulites through a new system that will refund the value of each recycling deposit to the resident’s megacity transport card. Istanbul, which is home to nearly 15 million people, produces an average of 17,000 tons of domestic waste every day, out of which 6,000 tons are processed in IBB’s garbage collection and recycling centers.

Aquafil and Genomatica Join Forces for Bio-Nylon Target More Sustainable Apparel, Carpets and Fibers. Aquafil and Genomatica have announced a multi-year agreement to create sustainable caprolactam, a key ingredient to producing 100 percent sustainable nylon. The collaboration aims to develop a commercially-advantageous bioprocess (Genomatica’s GENO CPL™ process) to make caprolactam using plant-based renewable ingredients, rather than the crude oil-derived materials traditionally used by the nylon industry. Enabling more sustainable nylon products Used in a variety of nylon-based products including carpets and apparel, caprolactam has a worldwide market of over five million tons per year. Genomatica’s GENO CPL™ process aims to provide an environmentally-friendly way to make caprolactam with better economics, including for smaller-scale plants. Additionally, it will enable licensees and their customers to differentiate themselves by offering a more sustainable bio-based product whose performance will be fully comparable with nylon made from crude oil-derived caprolactam, and which will not require any machine or process adjustments by the nylon supply chain. Genomatica is the licensor of the GENO CPL TM process. Aquafil is a leading producer of nylon yarn and launched the ECONYL® Regeneration System in 2011 to produce nylon made from 100 percent regenerated waste. A large and growing number of globally recognized sportswear, fashion, luxury and carpet brands choose ECONYL® as the sustainable ingredient for their product. Like the ECONYL® process, the GENO CPL™ process eliminates the significant amount of by-products common to most crude oil-derived caprolactam production, and will allow producers to diversify their sources in terms of raw material.

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Opportunities for chemical producers, product makers and brands Genomatica invites other leaders in the nylon value chain to join its bio-nylon program – and Aquafil encourages further collaboration with supply chain partners. By joining the program, companies ranging from chemical producers and product makers to agriculture companies and major brands can engage, influence priorities and gain access to Genomatica’s technologies and supply of bio-based chemicals.

“Visionary companies like Aquafil are delighting customers and gaining market share through more sustainable products,” said Christophe Schilling, CEO of Genomatica. “This is another example of Genomatica applying the power of biology to rethink how widely-used chemicals can be made a better way. Just as we’ve surpassed key milestones for our commercial GENO BDO process and were named winner of the ICIS Innovation Award for our new naturally sourced butylene glycol, we now aim to bring biotechnology innovation to enable better nylon products.”

Supporting quotes “As proven by the success of ECONYL®, consumers and manufacturers look forward to opportunities to play an active role in the circular economy. We aim to be a leader of sustainability for nylon, and we are excited by the opportunity to be the first to bring the benefits of this new technology to our customers, which is perfectly in line with our commitment to creating sustainable products,” said Giulio Bonazzi, Chairman and CEO of Aquafil. “Genomatica brings the technology, innovation and track record to help us achieve this.”

Buying Remains Firm With Higher Demand For Better Grade During trading session at leading stations of lint market in Punjab and Sindh, buying remained firm with demand for better grades of cotton which fetched a premium price. Buyers purchased better grades of cotton above Rs 7,675 per maund and deals for second grade of lint changed hands above Rs 7,475 per maund. Mills bought better grades of cotton at around Rs 7,525 per maund while spinners purchased better stocks at around Rs 7,525 per maund. The ginning units produced better grades of lint on demand while 3,600 bales changed hands during trading. Arrival of cottonseed would remain normal during next coming session. The secondary buyers made deals for all grades of cotton at around Rs 6,500 per maund and Rs 6,650 per maund. Sindh and Punjab buyers made month-delivery forward deals for all grades of cotton at around Rs 6,600 per maund to Rs 6,650 per maund in anticipation of further increase in prices during next trading sessions. Physical prices would remain firm on demand for all grades of cotton that would keep sellers in driving seat while bottom line prices likely to stand firm. Private sector commercial exporters made deals at Rs 6,500 per maund to Rs 6,550 per maund. Raw grades of lint changed hands at Rs 5,975 per maund depending on trash level during trading session. Ex-gin price per maund remained firm at Rs 7,500 per maund. In Kerb market trading took place in a range of Rs 6,625 per maund to Rs 6,700 per maund.

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Beaulieu Yarns out to Inspire Bold, Colourful Designs for High-End Contract Carpet Tiles • Highest resilience classification to suit commercial office, hospitality & leisure, education & healthcare environments • Endless colour choice and multilevel design loop (MLDL) options proven to work well with state-of-the-art and new tufting technology machines Beaulieu Yarns, the global supplier of high-quality synthetic polyamide and polypropylene yarns, unveils exciting potential for the high-end carpet tile market to fulfil its boldest colour and multilevel design desires with its series of multi-colour Solution Dyed Yarns. Featuring at Domotex 2018, the extra-resilient polyamide (PA) yarns meet the highest standards (Class 33) for the strongest and heaviest contract applications, such as in commercial offices, hospitality & leisure, education & healthcare premises. The yarns are produced as multi-colour Solution Dyed Yarns from 2600 to 3200 Dtex. Beaulieu Yarns’ in-house masterbatch department offers customers access to endless colour and contrast possibilities meaning that yarns are fully customizable to suit latest trends and the incorporation of novel design patterns. To demonstrate the design flexibility, the team focused on “Biophillic Designs”, a trend in the market related to the magnificence of nature, creating two proprietary designs inspired by the coast of Normandy, France and the Australian Barrier Reef. Beaulieu Yarns worked closely with key customer TAPIBEL on a project to test out the feasibility and resilience of the new yarns on the new tufting technology machines favoured by tufters serving the high segments of contract carpet. Further innovative and structured designs were also produced on new tufting technology in Brazil through Beaulieu do Brazil. In the run-up to Domotex, other key industry players got inspired by the high-quality yarns for their new collections of broadloom contract carpet.

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“Supporting our customers’ innovation in new tufting technology is very important to us and we are therefore delighted to offer a broad series of yarns for high-end carpets that really paves the way for them to expand their creativity in tile design and structure,” comments Emmanuel Colchen, Global Sales Director Beaulieu Yarns. “The development project with our key accounts is a great example of our industry-exclusive approach to development support, with customers able to explore colour choice and finalize their collections on-site at our global development centre.” Beaulieu Yarns unveils EqoBalance yarn at Domotex Beaulieu Yarns now offers sustainable versions of all its polyamide (PA6) yarns for carpets for residential and commercial use. The EqoBalance family of “biomass-balance” yarns is being launched at Domotex 2018, held January 12 to 15 in Hannover, Germany. New EqoBalance PA6 yarns follow the biomass balance approach, which ensures that at the very start of the supply chain, natural renewable raw materials can partially or even completely replace fossil resources in the production of polymers processed into yarns. By choosing these yarns, carpet tufters can contribute to a sustainable future through less use of fossil resources and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. The sustainable yarns from Beaulieu Yarns are conform the TÜV SÜD certification standard CMS 71 “Certification of the use of renewable resources,” which confirms the saving in fossil resources. The potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as a result of the replacement of fossil use is calculated in a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). EqoBalance yarns hereby allow a reduction of up to 75% of CO2eq/kg compared to the company’s fossil based yarns. EqoBalance yarns do not compromise on either quality or performance, as their formulation remains identical to their fossil-based equivalents. Since they are a drop-in alternative solution, tufters need to make no alterations to their manufacturing processes or final products. Beaulieu Yarns offers a wide variety of PA6 yarns for use in carpet tiles and planks and broadloom carpets for commercial, hospitality, education, healthcare, automotive, and residential applications. “Carpet tufters are requesting more environmentally-compatible yarns to support their overall commitment to greater sustainability and more efficient resource use,” said Karena Cancilleri, vice president of engineered products, Beaulieu International Group. “We see biomass balance as the fastest path forward and, through EqoBalance, are excited to pioneer this milestone for the contract market as part of our long-term strategy to give customers a fundamental new choice to step into sustainable products and contribute to a better world.”

New Military Fabrics from Cordura and Crye Precision • Highest resilience classification to suit commercial office, hospitality & leisure, education & healthcare environments

contrast possibilities meaning that yarns are fully customizable to suit latest trends and the incorporation of novel design patterns.

• Endless colour choice and multilevel design loop (MLDL) options proven to work well with state-ofthe-art and new tufting technology machines

To demonstrate the design flexibility, the team focused on “Biophillic Designs”, a trend in the market related to the magnificence of nature, creating two proprietary designs inspired by the coast of Normandy, France and the Australian Barrier Reef.

Beaulieu Yarns, the global supplier of highquality synthetic polyamide and polypropylene yarns, unveils exciting potential for the high-end carpet tile market to fulfil its boldest colour and multilevel design desires with its series of multicolour Solution Dyed Yarns. Featuring at Domotex 2018, the extra-resilient polyamide (PA) yarns meet the highest standards (Class 33) for the strongest and heaviest contract applications, such as in commercial offices, hospitality & leisure, education & healthcare premises. The yarns are produced as multi-colour Solution Dyed Yarns from 2600 to 3200 Dtex. Beaulieu Yarns’ in-house masterbatch department offers customers access to endless colour and

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Beaulieu Yarns worked closely with key customer TAPIBEL on a project to test out the feasibility and resilience of the new yarns on the new tufting technology machines favoured by tufters serving the high segments of contract carpet. Further innovative and structured designs were also produced on new tufting technology in Brazil through Beaulieu do Brazil. In the run-up to Domotex, other key industry players got inspired by the high-quality yarns for their new collections of broadloom contract carpet.

DuPont partners with Wools of New Zealand DuPont Industrial Biosciences is partnering with Wools of New Zealand (WoNZ) to create a platform of yarns for home textiles that will offer enduring performance characteristics with a more sustainable, eco-friendly profile. The partnership brings together patented technology from WoNZ with DuPont’s leadership in bio-sustainable, high-performance materials. Bringing together world-leading source traceability and patented technology from WoNZ with DuPont’s global leadership in bio-sustainable, high-performance materials inspired this collaboration of expertise and products, scheduled for release in 2018. “Wools of New Zealand is truly a leader in responsible wool supply. This level of care, along with their devotion to innovation and quality control is exactly what we at DuPont seek in partners,” said DuPont Sorona global segment leader John Sagrati. “They occupy a premium position in their market and have a proven track record of performance and sustainability with the unique capability to deliver consistent, tailored fibres.”

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“We are genuinely excited to partner with DuPont Industrial Biosciences, a business that has been able to bring biomaterials to market on a commercial-scale,” said WoNZ chief executive Rosstan Mazey. “Like us, DuPont is committed to delivering added value innovation without compromising the planet or its inhabitants. The combined resources and know-how in order to create this exciting, brand-new yarn is a perfect fit with our mission to change the game through innovation and to connect the people who grow our fibre with the end consumer.” DuPont’s industry-leading excellence in the biomaterials industry has received a number of accolades over the past year, including the Platts Global Energy “Breakthrough Solution of the Year” award for a partnership with ADM on a novel process to produce FDME from fructose; Frost & Sullivan’s award for 2017 European Company of the Year Award for bio-based materials; and, most recently, PLASTICS’ 2017 Innovation in Bioplastics Award.

In 2018 the Internationally Renowned Artist Chiharu Shiota is Exhibited at the Gothenburg Museum of Art Hundreds of boats in black metal and white thread with hopes and dreams as their cargo. Installations resembling spider-webs of wool yarn that involve the viewer both in body and mind. On April 21, a solo exhibition featuring the internationally renowned artist Chiharu Shiota opens at the Gothenburg Museum of Art. The works of Chiharu Shiota (b 1972) incorporate performance, sculpture and drawing. She is well known for her complex and poetical webs of wool yarn, in which she intertwines and crosses threads from floor to ceiling. Shiota was born in Osaka, Japan, but has lived and worked in Berlin since 1996. She had her major breakthrough on the international art scene at the Venice Biennale 2015. In the exhibition The Distance, Shiotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artistry is presented in a comprehensive museum exhibition for the first time in Sweden.Shiota often imbues her works with her own experience of migration, of how time and distance, memory and absence shape our identity in an increasingly globalized and changing world. After a period of physically demanding performances, where she tested the boundaries of her body, Shiota began working with thread in a kind of three-dimensional drawing. 16

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Over time, her thread drawings grew into monumental spatial installations that often include clothes, furniture and letters – everyday objects that become symbolic containers of dreams and stories. -Chiharu Shiota’s installations are charged with symbols. In them, our impressions are formed just as much by our bodily experience, our purely physical sensations and feelings, as by our own emotional history in the form of memories and dreams. It is with great anticipation that we give her the opportunity to transform the rooms of the exhibition, says Anna Hyltze, Curator and Acting Museum Director. The exhibition comprises photography, drawing and sculpture along with two large-scale installations,

created specifically by Chiharu Shiota for the Gothenburg Museum of Art. Each installation requires time consuming manual labour as Shiota slowly weaves a billowing path that the visitor can follow. By moving through the installation, the visitor activates the work and becomes involved in the creation of the work’s meaning. Shiota’s installations are both monumental and fragile, at times impenetrable. The exhibition at the Gothenburg Museum of Art coincides with a presentation of Chiharu Shiota at the Wanås sculpture park in Skåne. Altogether, the two exhibitions offer a unique insight into the work of a highly relevant artist.

Textile Traders Demand Extension of Deadline in E-way Bill Implementation The textile traders’ community in the country’s largest man-made fabric (MMF) hub has been facing lot of difficulties on the GST portal due to technical glitches and sought extension of deadline in the online e-way bill generation. An e-way bill is required for movement of goods worth more than Rs 50,000. Though the central government has launched the e-way bill generation on trial basis for the inter-state movement of goods above Rs 50,000 starting from January 16, the traders have demanded that implementation of e-way bill must be done only after ensuring the system works properly. The traders have demanded that implementation of e-way bill should be deferred till March 31 or else it will hit the inter-state movement of goods from February 1 onwards. For a seamless movement of goods across states, the GST Council, earlier this month, decided to go for early implementation of the e-way bill for inter-state movement of items from February 1 and uniform mandatory compliance from June 1 next year. The leader of the Federation of Surat Textile Traders’ Association (FOSTTA) Devkishan Menghani said that the finance ministry has stated that the trader and

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transporters can start using this system on a voluntary basis from January 16 this year. But, a majority of traders are unable to upload their details or rather the system crashes in the middle of filing of details. On the other hand, the transporters are insisting on the e-way bill details, without which the goods are not loaded for transportation. At this point of time, the government should first rectify the technical problems on the GST portal and then implement the e-way bill compliance. Till then, the government must extend the implementation of e-way bill. FOSTTA president Manoj Agarwal said that time and again they have raised their genuine concerns under GST, but the government is not ready to hear. They are ready to follow the rules, but the GST portal itself is not working. A large number of textile traders had gathered at Abhishek Market on Ring Road to address their problems to Navsari MP C R Paatil on Tuesday. The traders raised the issues related to filing of the returns, ITC-04 and other technical problems on the GST portal.

Indian Yarn Spinners to see Gradual Recovery in FY18: ICRA Indian spinners are likely to see a gradual performance recovery beginning 2017-18 last quarter after facing multiple problems over the last several quarters that resulted in their profitability touching six-year lows in the previous two quarters, according to a report by credit rating agency ICRA. Cotton yarn demand is also expected to gather strength. The performance improvement is expected to be aided by a downward bias in cotton prices amid healthy cotton crop and an upward bias in yarn realisations due to demand restoration, said Jayanta Roy, senior vice president and group head, corporate sector ratings, ICRA.

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ICRA believes the uptick in cotton prices in recent weeks to be an aberration in light of slower-thanusual arrivals in the leading cotton producing state Gujarat owing to elections and pest attack-related concerns. These concerns are unlikely to considerably affect crop quantity and quality and the arrivals are likely to pick up in the fourth quarter of the current fiscal. Domestic prices are likely to remain 10 to 12 per cent lower than average cotton price during the twelve month period ending September 2017, a leading Indian business daily reported citing the ICRA report.

Better clarity on export incentives for textile goods in recent weeks is likely to support Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overall textile exports and demand restoration from the fourth quarter onwards, Roy said. The cotton yarn demand is also likely to gather strength from restoration of domestic demand following the temporary disruption caused by the transition to the goods and services tax (GST) regime, and higher exports to one of Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s key export markets, China, before re-launch of its cotton auctions in March 2018. However, credit profiles of spinners remain stable despite the weak performance, the report added.

INVISTA’s Latest P8 Technology Sees First Successful Deployment in China INVISTA Performance Technologies (IPT) and Jiaxing Petrochemical Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of Tongkun Group Co., Ltd, announce the successful start-up of Jiaxing Petrochemical’s second PTA Line, utilising INVISTA’s latest P8 technology. The first reaction train reached 100 percent design rate in just 10 days from the first introduction of feedstock.

“We recognize that INVISTA’s P8 technology is a world class PTA technology. And the successful start-up is an outcome of close collaboration between the teams of both companies. We look forward to continuous cooperation in the future.” Mr. Xu added.

P8 is the very latest PTA technology platform from INVISTA, representing industry-leading capital productivity, variable cost and environmental footprint. It is the latest demonstration of INVISTA’s 30-year track record in successfully deploying new generations of PTA technology that create competitive advantage for licensees.

Mike Pickens, president of INVISTA Performance Technologies, commented in his speech at the ceremony, “We are honored that the first

A ceremonial session was held by Jiaxing Petrochemical to celebrate the outstanding achievement. Mr. Xu, president of Tongkun Group, expressed his trust in INVISTA’s PTA technology and the capability of its engineers and scientists. He said,

“We are pleased to see the successful start-up of our second PTA line and the operations are currently running very well.”

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deployment of our latest P8 technology has been in partnership with Jiaxing Petrochemical and it is appropriate that they will be rewarded by the superior project returns made possible by the advanced P8 technology platform.”

The achievement represents yet another major milestone for Jiaxing Petrochemical and INVISTA, following the start-up of the first PTA line in 2012. INVISTA’s latest PTA technology is available as a license package from INVISTA Performance Technologies.

KARL MAYER’s Denim Business is Booming In the black with an evergreen in blue

Jeans are, and will continue to be, a top fashion trend, and its denim business is extremely lucrative for KARL MAYER. With its Centre of Excellence for the denim sector, KARL MAYER ROTAL, this global player can offer one-stop solutions for slasher and rope dyeing.

increasing continuously since 2015, and has been especially high this year. Turkey, in particular, has placed a large number of orders.

Compared to conventional machines available on the market, the PRODYE-S and PRODYE-R indigo dyeing machines from this Italian subsidiary consume less water, produce less waste and enable deeper, brighter indigo shades to be produced. The dye add-on as a percentage of the total yarn weight is 5.5 % maximum. This warp preparation equipment is also highly productive. The PRODYE-S can double output when processing lightweight denim. The market has been extremely impressed by the performance offered by KARL MAYER ROTAL’s indigo dyeing machines. Demand has been

Turkey is a lucrative market for KARL MAYER ROTAL. Many large denim producers there are already working with the PRODYE-S machine and have placed follow-up orders this year. Follow-up orders have also been received from companies in Mexico. Machines have also been delivered to companies that are new to this technology – in Turkey and Iran as well. Turkish companies are also contributing to the success of the PRODYE-R. This rope dyeing machine was only delivered in May 2017. It was sent to Algeria as part of a large project, under the auspices of TAYAL, a joint venture involving

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the participation of the Turkish company, Taypa. Turkey invested in another PRODYE-R machine in the autumn of this year. KARL MAYER ROTAL invited any specialists who were interested to travel to Vietnam to see a practical demonstration of its indigo dyeing machine. One customer, who has been working with the PRODYE-S since February 2017, made his company available for the open-house show, and reported on his experiences. The event was attended by a small yet highly qualified group of people. The visitors came mainly from the host country, but also from Hong Kong, Indonesia and China. The next opportunity to see KARL MAYER ROTAL’s DENIM machines will be at the ITM International Textile Machinery Exhibition in Istanbul, which will take place from 14 to 17 April 2018.

Designed by experts What makes PRODYE so interesting for the denim sector is that it is based on well-thought-out components. One of these innovative elements is the Double Vario dyebath, which operates on the basis of a well-thoughtout cross-flow system for perfect dye liquor circulation to give a uniform dyeing result. Additionally, the Quick Oxidation zone operates with temperature-controlled air flow to guarantee uniform dye uptake. Rejects are also reduced and the colour tone of the warp yarn sheet is more uniform than with conventional techniques. The third important guarantee of success is the PROSIZE® sizing machine, which is equipped with the VSB and HSB size boxes. “These size application systems are becoming more and more popular, since they offer numerous advantages,” says Dieter Gager, the Sales Director. The PROSIZE® uses up to 10% less size than similar conventional systems on the market. Uniformity is improved and less fibre dust is produced, which improves weaving efficiency. It is ergonomically designed and provides greater process transparency. With an operating rate of up to 180 m/min, it is extremely fast and can also be used flexibly. The yarn sizing range, which depends on the number of yarns and the yarn count, may be up to 20% higher than on conventional sizing machines. The working width is 3,200 mm maximum. Another advantage of the PROSIZE® is that it reduces the number of rejects, because stoppage marks caused by over-sizing are greatly reduced, even when the machine is stopped for long periods.

Lenzing Continues To Invest in Modal Towards Technological Leadership Lenzing Modal® branded fibers are an important part in Lenzing’s fiber portfolio. The fibers specialists stand out with 50 years of experience in the production and marketing of the fibers. By adapting the Modal production process, Lenzing is further underscoring its work towards technological leadership. A further benchmark in Lenzing’s Modal production “Specialization is a key element of Lenzing’s strategy. The share of specialty fibers at Lenzing should be increased to 50% of turnover by the year 2020. Lenzing Modal® fibers and the MicroModal® branded fibers play an important part in this. Lenzing is and shall continue to be one of the technological leaders in the field of Modal production even after fifty years. We are working continuously on improvements to our processes and have set further benchmark in Modal production with the adaptation of our production steps,” Robert van de Kerkhof, CCO of the Lenzing group, explains. The advantages of adapting the Modal production process are clear: Customers benefit from the very good processability which makes it easier to produce high-quality yarns. Different climatic zones, which can lead to problems with processing, play a less important role. Even different spinning technologies play a lesser role when processing the new Lenzing Modal® fibers. Moreover higher production efficiency could be reached in the spinning mill. A patent has been filed for this new technology making Lenzing Modal® fibers universally applicable in the fiber processing industry.

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Lenzing Modal® fibers - a global success For fifty years Lenzing Modal® fibers have been a permanent feature in international collections in the fashion industry. Lenzing Modal® fibers are particularly successful with figure-hugging products such as day and night wear and homewear. Certification according to STANDARD 100 by OEKO-TEX® Class 1 makes the fibers particularly well suited to baby and children’s clothing, which could be a future market for Lenzing Modal® fibers. Edelweiss® fiber technology stands for innovative environmental technology The Lenzing Modal® fibers production is largely on beech wood and the fibers are bio-degradable. Thanks to the eco-friendly production at the site in Lenzing - with high recovery rates of process ingredients and very low air emissions - Lenzing Modal® fibers are the “Edelweiss® fiber technology fibers”. Lenzing Modal® fibers were awarded the EU-Eco Label AT/016/001.

Nanollose Develops Plant-Free Viscose Rayon Fibre Nanollose, an Australian technology company, has developed plant-free viscose-rayon fibre. Unlike conventional rayon, Nanollose’s sustainable alternative is derived using microbes that convert biomass waste products from the liquid food industries into microbial cellulose which is then converted into rayon fibres using the Nanollose technology. “Each year, a huge amount of trees are cut down to produce wood-based fibres like rayon. Today’s breakthrough takes Nanollose one step closer to commercialising our sustainable fibres as a very real alternative so we positively impact and reduce the cutting down of trees and use of toxic processes to create clothing,” Nanollose’s managing director, Alfie Germano, said. “Over the past three months interest in our fibre technology from multiple textile, apparel and fibre manufacturers has been significant, and the next step will be around accelerating towards producing sufficient quantities of rayon fibre samples for these groups. We then aim to collaborate with these global partners who can expedite our development program, and provide technical support and scale for turning fibre into fabrics, which will then go into making clothing,” added Germano. “The entire industry is experiencing a green wind of change that is customer driven, every day we see headlines showing this shift is becoming more solidified, and we believe we have a solution,” Germano concluded. According to leading market research company TechNavio, the current rayon market is valued at $10 billion, and is expected to grow to $16.3 billion by 2019. This growth is due to fluctuating fibre costs like that of cotton, the need to be less dependent on polyester and demand for greener cost-effective alternatives. 28

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Mustafa ÖZTÜRK

SATEKS ADDS COLOR TO LIFE

e made our first investments in the yarn-dyeing sector in 1984 when my father Sabri Öztürk set up a small workshop at Demiryolu Street. A polyester cheese dyeing was the first job in our business life that continues as one of the first facilities in the Demirtas Organized Industrial Zone.

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fter the second half of 2000’s, we kept up with development pace of the sector by making new investments. Products with spandex (elastane) yarn were very popular in the 2000s but this kind of yarns couldn’t be dyed as spool in those days. Top dyeing was carried out after weaving the fabric. We started our first R&D studies in 2012 for cotton spandex yarn dyeing. A year later, we expanded the product range of spandex yarn dyeing to spool dyeing for polyamide and viscose spandex yarns. Then, we reached a certain level to produce six main varieties of yarn used in the sector with spandex without elastane loss as well as floss spandex yarn dyeing and polyester spandex yarn dyeing and additionally poly/vis/spandex yarn dyeing in line with the demands of the market.

eanwhile, our product development and promotion team visit almost all leading exporters and fabric facilities and in this sort of promotion visits, they make presentations and also inform them about product and dyeings. We attend all leading exhibitions around the globe to both visit customers and follow the latest trends in the sector and understand market share of next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s yarn dyeing because SATEKS have a customer focused management concept I must say frankly that we are of the few companies that can dye these six yarns with spandex in the world. Linen, staple, nylon, floss, cotton, polyester, viscose and mixtures of these yarns are dyed in our facility. Our company is a member of Inditex. Also we have H20 and Ekoteks certificates. Any carcinogenic dye and chemicals are never used in our factory. I and my team move forward with new R&D activities.

Ultimate Evenness Testing And More – With The Total Testing Center Feedback from Bangladesh spinners details practical benefits of USTER® TESTER 6 Only two years since its launch, the ground-breaking new USTER® TESTER 6 is making a significant impact in Bangladesh. Ambitious and quality-conscious spinners are eager to participate in the rapid growth in export sales by the country’s textile producers. USTER® TESTER 6 is more than the ultimate evenness tester: it is also the gateway to wider potential benefits for mills, integrating data from other USTER® quality measurement sources to create a real Total Testing Center. Bangladesh mills have been quick to recognize these extended advantages, and several USTER® TESTER 6 units are already in operation in Bangladesh, as well as in the rest of South East Asia, following its global launch at the Milan ITMA in 2015. The forthcoming DTG exhibition is likely to stimulate even greater interest among visitors to the USTER booth. At the 15th Dhaka International Textile and Garment Machinery Exhibition, to be held in city’s Bangabandhu International Conference Centre from February 8-11, USTER experts will provide visitors with first-hand information on the USTER® TESTER 6. Ahead of the exhibition, existing customers from the Bangladesh spinning sector here provide detailed feedback on their experiences to date.

This totally-integrated facility leverages the value of the information and provides practical insights into the entire yarn production sequence and downstream processes. This enormous mass of data requires built-in intelligence to transform it into quick and easy-to-follow guidance for the spinner. Quality alerts provide an early warning of potential issues, allowing spinners to identify and remedy any faults likely to cause second-quality material. Objective guidance helps spinners to categorize quality levels, using the so-called ‘yarn grades’, while critical questions about a yarn’s performance in subsequent processes are answered by intelligent forecasting of fabric appearance, pilling resistance and overall ‘weavability’.

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The best in testing The sheer speed of the USTER® TESTER 6 – without compromise on quality – is hailed by all the spinners. The test speed of 800 m/min also provides highly reliable and extremely accurate results, thanks to the new Capacitive and Optical Sensors. Says Abdul Latif, Deputy General Manager of Divine Spinning Mills Ltd: “Hairiness testing at high-speeds of 800 m/min – also now including Hairiness Length Classification – requires relatively much less time for testing.” Companies also report increased efficiency in quality management, with feature such as the graphical presentation of ‘timeline’ reports – analyzing the product with a long-term perspective and providing quality data over a pre-defined time. “We are able to analyze the product at a single glance,” says Khorshed Ali, Senior Manager Quality Control at Pahartali Textile & Hosiery Mills. Another well-appreciated quality analysis shows the total of pre-defined imperfection classes (neps, thin and thick places) graded by standard and sensitivity level, making it a valuable quality management tool. In fact, the USTER® TESTER 6 can provide essential data for any parameter describing yarn appearance – taking in well over a hundred different factors – using its inbuilt yarn testing functions, as well as through connections with other USTER® testing and monitoring systems.

Immediate help for users in case of a quality problem on a spinning machine is provided by the Knowledge Based System (KBS). A single click on a spectrogram display – with no need for additional settings or inputs from the machine supplier – brings up the defective component on screen. Extended support possibilities Assistant Q is compared to an additional ‘employee’ arriving in the mill with USTER® TESTER 6. He is on duty 24/7, embodying 65 years of USTER application experience. He checks every measurement – whether from the laboratory and the online instruments. Where quality issues arise, Assistant Q offers a checklist of actions to solve the problem. “Assistant Q gives us a lot of ideas to solve any problems,” says Khorshed Ali at Pahartali Textile & Hosiery Mills. The USTER® TESTER 6 is the key to accessing the Total Testing Center. As each additional Uster measuring system is connected to the Total Testing Center, the depth of knowledge and expertise held by Assistant Q increases. A major benefit already results from the integration of in-process information from the USTER® QUANTUM 3, which monitors 100% of production at the winding machines. The Total Testing Center then takes spinning mills to the next stage, with detailed analysis of all the data and expert interpretation – giving practical advice and options for specific improvements. This allows quality and productivity criteria to be balanced, so that mills can make informed and risk-free decisions on every aspect of the yarn manufacturing process. It is clear that spinning mills in Bangladesh are already well aware of the massive possibilities these benefits offer: “To us, the USTER® TESTER 6 is the best evenness tester ever and we intend it to become our Total Testing Center in future,” says Shafiqul Islam, Manager Quality Control at Akij Textile Mills Ltd. Other Bangladeshi spinners have also indicated that they plan to connect fiber testing systems and yarn clearers in future. At DTG 2018, spinners can assess their options for a future with the Total Testing Center – or simply experience the world’s best evenness tester – on the USTER booth in hall 6, booth 606. “The possibility to manage the spinning mill with quality in mind, the range of new and unique features on top of unmatched reliability and accuracy of all functions as a yarn testing system will convince all our customers of the value of USTER® TESTER 6,” says AFM Zubair, Director within New Asia Ltd., USTER’s agent for laboratory systems and yarn clearers.

Studio Linen An ancient fibre recycled for a modern maker

Linen is an ancient, sustainable, natural fibre spun from the flax plant. Flax itself is naturally resistant to pests and therefore practically no pesticides nor herbicides are necessary to grow these eco-friendly stem fibre plants. Flax plants produce large amounts of usable fibre per acre and do not require irrigation. Linen is durable, soft, lustrous and flexible and will naturally soften with wear and washing. Studio Linen is 100% linen: 85% is recycled rayon-linen fibre, sorted from selected wastage and regenerated using the eco-friendly hydrolysis method. Blended with 15% premium natural linen, these fibres are twisted and dyed by a specialist Italian spinner in Biella to produce a unique yarn with a dry hand feel and subtle sheen. Cool to the touch, and with a delicate drape Studio Linen is the perfect yarn for summer. With a refined palette of colours that will work with everything you wear and a clear stitch definition, Studio Linen crafts beautiful garments both in knit and crochet. Look out for four new colours for 2017 inspired by the ancient Japanese resist dyeing technique of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Shiboriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to mimic the subtle hues of indigo dye.

Made in Italy 50g hank 85% recycled rayon linen (viscose) / 15% premium linen approx. 120m / 131yds 21-22 sts & 28-30 rows = 10cm/4in UK 3.75-4mm / US 5-6 needles

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Oerlikon Presents Cost-Efficient Solution At Domotex 2018 Oerlikon Neumag presented the Sytec One solution for demanding BCF processes at Domotex 2018, a leading trade fair for floor coverings, which takes place in Hannover, Germany. Cost-efficient production of carpet yarns beyond commodity products can constitute a challenge. Highly standardised production systems must strike compromises with regard to throughput, quality or cost-efficiency. The Sytec One is a BCF plant with only one end per position. Due to this single-end characteristic, it is particularly well suited for demanding production processes, such as recycled polyester or fine filaments, according to the manufacturer. “In the event of a yarn break, only one end breaks,” the company explains. “All the other positions are not affected and continue to run. As a result, this plant has a higher efficiency compared with a multi-end technology plant. For example, with ten breaks a day, the efficiency of the Sytec One is still over 98%, while a three-end technology achieves only 92% efficiency.” The machine concept of the Sytec One with its straight yarn path in spinning and texturing is also said to enable significantly higher process speeds compared to multi-end technologies. This results in a speed increase of up to 15%. In addition to standard processes, more demanding processes with higher break rates play an increasingly important role. “The product mix is critical to the choice of technology,” said Martin Rademacher, Vice President of Sales, Oerlikon Neumag. “We are in the comfortable position of being able to offer our customers both a single-end and a three-end technology.” Oerlikon Neumag offers an extensive portfolio of technologies for the production of synthetic staple fibres. It delivers both one-step and two-step technology solutions, which aim to enable customers to produce a flexible range between 5 and 300 tonnes of polypropylene, polyester, recycled polyester, polyamide, and other similar materials per day. With its Oerlikon Barmag and Oerlikon Neumag brands, Oerlikon Manmade Fibers segment is the market leader in manmade fibre filament spinning systems, texturing machines, BCF systems, staple fibre systems, nonwovens and artificial turf systems and – as a service provider – offers engineering solutions for the entire textile value added chain.

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Trevira Gmbh & Trevira Cs:

Business, Activities, Projects

Trevira Gmbh 2017: SuccessfulWithSpecialties The long-term commitment of Treviraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parent company, the Thailand based Indorama Ventures PCL (IVL), was once again confirmed in May 2017. Indorama acquired the remaining (25%) shares of its former joint venture partner, thus making Trevira a wholly owned subsidiary. Trevira GmbH continued to significantly profit from the synergies within the IVL enterprise and can look back on a good year in 2017. Overall, sales met expectations. Sales volumes were by and large as forecast, and the results increased compared with 2016. The annual turnover was around 244 million euros (2016: 230 million euros). Pleasing progress was recorded especially with business in specialties such as flame retardant fibres and yarns (Trevira CS), low-pill apparel fibres, and bicomponent fibres. An unexpected plus was also recorded in the automotive industry. As in the years before, the overall favourable economic conditions and the sustained recovery of the European contract market enabled us to achieve

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a significant growth in the sales volume for flame retardant products in 2017. The growth volume of filament yarns was even at 10%. The principal customers for flame retardant Trevira fibres and filaments continue to be manufacturers in Europe, especially in Italy and Germany. Trevira CS business in Turkey suffered from the tense political situation, but it was able to recover to the forecast level during the second half of the year. Products & trends In both staple fibres and filament yarns, fibres with a natural appearance will continue to play an important role and were in high demand. A broad range of multicolour and melange yarns, which Trevira offers in flame retardant versions, are a response to this trend. Three colour cards showcasing dull and bright melange yarns are available. The first are primarily used in upholsteries, in particular for office furniture.

The shiny yarns are used for decorative fabrics, giving them a silky appearance. In addition to the wool look obtained with fibre yarns, Trevira is working on filament yarns that can also create a wool look. Another important growth segment in 2017 was the flame retardant bico fibres for sound-absorbing textiles & acoustic panels. In addition, the proportion of spun-dyed fibres and filaments in Trevira CS textiles grew in the home textiles and automotive segments. Flame retardant yarns were also in higher demand in the transport industry. This was due in part to the attractive range of flame retardant yarns, which, depending on the field of application, offers more interesting effect yarns than standard polyester yarns. We also profited from the stricter regulation no. 118-02 of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) for buses, which requires vehicle seats to pass a test to determine the horizontal as well as a vertical burning rate of materials.

ÖR-İŞ ADVANCES CONFIDENTLY ALONG THE WAY TO BECOMING A COMPANY IN INT’L STANDARDS

Established in 1986, Ör-İş is a producer of fancy yarns for all fields of textiles such as household textile, flat knitting, circular knitting, hand knitting, carpet and carpet yarn. It started the business manufacturing hand knitting yarn with a capacity of 10 tons/month; in 1990s the company expanded its product range to include flat and circular knitting yarns.

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During 2000s, fancy yarns for household textile and carpet industry were added to product range. Today Ör-İş having a capacity of 200 tons/month is advancing confidently along the way to becoming a company in international standards that develops and updates, if necessary, machinery to offer quality products to customers Our goal is to be a matching manufacturer and business partner that customers can trust in all aspects. As a company adopting a customer-focused business approach, Ör-İş engages deeply with customers to develop products that work for them. We aim also to be a manufacturer strengthening production efficiency through the use of state-of-the-art technology and innovation. We sets our sights on becoming a significant player of both local and global markets, providing wide spectrum solutions to the industry, thereby maximizing value for our clients and in turn, becoming their preferred partner. 43

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Asahi Kasei to expand capacity for

Leona™ nylon 66 filament Asahi Kasei’s Fibers & Textiles SBU will expand its production capacity for Leona™ nylon 66 filament in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan. With exceptional strength, heat resistance, durability, and light weight, Leona™ nylon 66 filament is widely used in industrial applications, notably airbags and tire cord for the automotive industry, satisfying rigorous quality requirements. Under the Cs for Tomorrow 2018 medium-term management initiative, Asahi Kasei has identified automotive markets as a focus for expansion in the Material sector, which includes fibers and textiles operations. Leona™ nylon 66 filament is enjoying remarkable growth in its predominant application of airbags, as vehicle production in Asia increases and the airbag installation rate rises in line with heightened safety requirements. This capacity expansion will enable Asahi Kasei to meet increasing demand as the market continues to grow.

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Outline Location Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan Product Leona™ nylon 66 filament Capacity Approximately 5,000 tons/year (currently approximately 33,000 tons /year) Groundbreaking February 2018 Start-up First half of fiscal 2019 Ryujiro Yoshino, Senior General Manager of the Leona Filament Division, said, “With increased capacity for Leona™ nylon 66 filament, we will meet the strong demand growth which is being driven by greater vehicle production, stricter safety regulations, and the use of more airbags per vehicle. We will work to further enhance our supply configuration, considering subsequent capacity expansions, as we continue to expand the business.”

“We are the partner of choice for our customersbecauseSeçenYarnprioritizes qualitythroughouttheproductionprocess throughweavingexperience”hesays.

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Mr. Soykan Gülseçen, company manager of Seçen Yarn, answered questions of FairWorld Home Textile Magazine for Evteks issue.

- First, could you tell us about your company for readers?

We began operation in 1984, the yarn twisting facility within Seçen Tekstil became a separate business in 2011 under the name of Seçen Yarn and twisting. With a 25-year experience of yarn business, we provide service on twisting and fancy yarn for manufacturing of fabrics for clothing and home textile. With a mission to produce different types of yarn in the same quality, we aim to become a solution partner for customers addressing various twisting and fancy yarn requriments.

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Twisting of polyester, rayon, nylon acetate and polyester lycra yarn from 20 to 600 denier made in the range of 80 to 3200 twists in our

twisting mill of 5000 sqm in Bursa Demirtaş Organized Industrial Zone. All sorts of two or three layer yarn are folded in fancy yarn department. We produce several yarns such as viscose flam, burn-out, various 20-30 d monofilament and short fiber yarn folds, MX folds and S-Z yarn. Our product range are mainly twisting rayon, twisting polyester and fancy yarns. Q - Why do customers choose your company’s services? We are the partners of our customers because Seçen Yarn prioritizes quality throughout the production process through yarn production experience. We give importance to be solution oriented, continuous development and offer tailored solutions to customers.

We get faster results arting rapidly and on time with ever-changing and growing need and demands of customers and thanks to R&D activities carried out jointly with customers. Q - How many employees are currently employed at your company? What is your production capacity and for which industries do you manufacture mainly? 35 people are employed at our company right now. We invest regularly in machine and qualified labor force every year. We manufacture twisting productions rayon, polyester and folded fancy yarn for knitting, weaving, jacquard and tricot.

e have annual production capacity of 1000 tonnes of twisting yarn and 500 tonnes of fancy yarn for woman and man fabric manufacturers in apparel industry and drapery, curtain, velvet and embrodiery fabric manufacturers in home textile. Q - Which product is sold the most? We feel the pulse of industry on twisting rayon yarns in terms of demand and needs, so we have always great variety of stock, also have been fastly investing in new products and machinery for fancy yarn production. Determining with the ever-changing needs of customers, we carry out R&D studies according to their demands. We follow closely fabric and home textile exhibitions all over the world, we make yarn collection in the direction of these exhibitions. 51

Spinning Yarn for a Wash-and-Wear Energy Harvester The yarn can be woven into textiles that scavenge energy from motion to charge wearable devices To Georgia Tech’s Zhong Lin Wang, even tossing and turning in bed is a possible source of renewable energy. Wang’s group has made energy-harvesting yarns—primarily composed of common garment materials like polyester, cotton, silk, and wool—that can be woven into brightly colored, washable, power-generating textiles. Sewn into socks, sweaters, and other clothes, the fabrics can harvest enough energy from the motion of walking the dog or waving your arms around to charge wearable medical sensors, smartwatches, or cell phones. The yarn is based on a device Wang first developed in 2012 called a triboelectric generator, which takes advantage of static electricity that builds up from the friction between two different materials. The design is relatively simple, requiring a conductor (usually a metal) and a dielectric material (often a polymer), in close proximity. Dielectrics are insulators, but static charges can build up on their surfaces. When the two materials move closer together, electrons jump from the dielectric to the conductor. When they move back apart, those electrons flow into either a capacitor to store the charge or a circuit to generate power. These generators can harvest on the order of tens of milliwatts per square meter. That’s not a lot, but a triboelectric generator the size of a jacket could make 100 mW just from the wearer’s fidgeting—enough to power small sensors or to send a burst of data to receivers a few hundred meters away. The rub is making a jacket that a person would actually want to wear. Research on energy-harvesting textiles sometimes ignores practical concerns such as breathability, the need of clothing designers to cut and sew it just like any other cloth, and the rigors of the washing machine, Wang says. He realized that he could make triboelectric yarn by covering a thin, flexible stainless steel fiber about 50 µm in diameter with a material like polyester or cotton. On the outside of the yarn, “we can substitute any material as long as it’s an insulator,” says Wang. Wang’s group used machinery from the textile industry to wrap the steel with fibers and to weave the resulting yarn into textiles. These “power cloths” can generate electricity in two ways, he says. As the yarns are stretched and released, the outer insulating layer moves closer to the steel core, then away again, generating a small electrical current. 52

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Current is also generated when two layers of cloth—such as the sleeve and body of a sweater—rub against each other. This energy can be captured by a capacitor on the textile or sent over an attached wire to another device. To test the power-generating potential of these textiles, the researchers sewed a small patch of power cloth made with stretchy Spandex into the sole of a sock and another into the underarm of a sweater. The sock could charge a capacitor to 1 V after about 19 seconds of walking. The cloth works at up to 90% humidity, so it can survive heavy sweating. It also withstood 120 cycles in the washing machine—but it’s line-dry only. “This remarkable advance seems poised for practical applications,” says Ray H. Baughman, a materials scientist at the University of Texas, Dallas. Baughman is working on carbon nanotube yarns that can harvest large amounts of power from much larger sources, like ocean waves. Many researchers are racing to develop wearable, energy-harvesting textiles, he says. Wang says he’s in contact with industrial partners about commercializing the power cloth for athletic apparel and to charge wearable health monitors.

Turkey Becomes 8th Largest Yarn Exporter Globally World yarn exports fell by 4.8% in 2016 to US$ 45 billion. It is observed that 22% of them come from China alone, which makes US$ 10 billion worth of world yarn exports. India ranks second with 11.1% share, with US$ 5 billion. With a share of 6.7% in world yarn exports, the third country that exports the most is Vietnam with an export value of US$3 billion. Turkey is in the eighth place, with US$ 1.6 billion export value in world yarn exports, which were made to 153 countries in 2016.

Turkeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s yarn exports in 2016 The countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exports increased by 1.7%, compared to the year 2015. Also, in 2016, the share of yarn exports in textiles exports increased to 16.7% from the previous turnover. Italy, Belgium, the UK and Iran are observed to be the countries with the highest exports of yarn in 2016, when Turkey is handled on the basis of yarn exporting countries.

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In 2016, yarn exports to Italy declined by 1.8% compared to 2015 and were worth around US$ 198 million. Belgium, which was the second largest market for yarn exports in 2016, increased by 2.2%, while the share of the country in total yarn exports was 7.5%. The UK is the third largest export market for yarn in 2016, while exports to the UK declined by 6.9% to US$ 120 million. Turkeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other major yarn markets included Iran, with exports rising by 52.6% to about US$ 96 million, exports to the Netherlands increased by 9.6% to US$ 94 million, exports to Portugal fell by 12.8% to US$ 85 million and exports to Germany amounted to about US$ 80 million, an increase of 1.4%.

Bulgaria, the US, Egypt, Poland, Spain and Brazil were other important yarn export markets. Exports by major product groups of yarn from Turkey were divided into synthetic yarn from artificial filaments, yarn from synthetic artificial staple fibres, cotton yarn, wool and animal hair, cellulosic fibre yarns and silk yarn. The most exported yarn product group in Turkey is synthetic filament fibre yarn, with the export value of US$ 605 million and a tension of 1.5%, compared to 2015. The share of the related product group in total yarn exports is 37%.

Another group of yarn products most commonly exported from Turkey are synthetic yarns from artificial staple fibres. Their export value reached around US$ 540 million in 2016, and the export rate increased by 11.2%, compared to the previous turnover. Their share in Turkey’s yarn exports is 33%. Statistics on yarn exports, as well as annual changes and share of 2015-2016 product groups by major product groups, are given in the table below. Cotton yarn exports, the third most exported product group in Turkey, declined by 2.6% to US$ 454 million in 2016. The share of cotton yarn in Turkish yarn exports has been calculated at 27.8%.

Turkey’s yarn import Turkey is also one of the world’s leading yarn importers. In 2016, Turkey imported US$3 billion worth of yarn from 93 countries – a 5% increase, compared to 2015. China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Vietnam are observed as the countries with the highest number of yarn imports in 2016. The share of yarn imports in general textiles imports is 36.2%. Looking at the share of textiles imports from 2012 to 2016, it can be seen that the share of yarn imports is increasing at a rate between 31.6% and 36.2%. The share of nominal yarn imports, which was calculated at 33.2%, with imports of US$2.9 billion in 2012, rose to 36.2% at the end of 2016. In 2013, Turkey imported about US$ 3 billion worth of spinning products, while imports reached US$ 3.2 billion in 2014 and declined by 10.5% in 2015 to about US$ 2.9 billion. In 2016, imports rose by 5%, exceeding US$ 3 billion. 56

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The country with the highest yarn imports in 2016 is China with a share of 22.5%, which is about US$ 682 million worth of imports and total yarn imports. China’s imports of yarn have increased by 17%, compared to 2015. India is the second country with the largest number of yarn imports. India’s imports totalled US$ 552 million in 2016, while India’s share in Turkey’s total yarn imports was 18.2%. Turkey’s third largest supplier of knitted fabrics – Indonesia – imported yarn worth US$ 322 million in 2016, an increase of 4.4%. Indonesia’s share in total yarn imports was calculated as 10.6%. Bangladesh is Turkey’s fourth largest supplier of yarn, with imports falling by 2.3% in 2016, worth about US$ 196 million. Bangladesh’s share in total yarn imports in Turkey is 6.5%. Vietnam is the country’s fifth-largest supplier of yarn, with imports worth US$ 171 million in 2016, with an increase of 3.2%. The major product groups in Turkey’s yarn import are synthetic filament yarn, synthetic staple fibre yarn, cotton yarn, vegetable fibre yarn, wool and fine/coarse animal hair, and silk yarn. In 2016, the largest group of imported products was synthetic filament yarn with an import value of around US$ 1.7 billion. By 2015, imports of the related product group increased by 5.2%. In Turkey’s yarn imports, the share of synthetic filament yarn was calculated as 55.3%. Another major group Turkey’s yarn import is synthetic staple fibre yarn. Their import value in 2016 was around US$ 591 million, with an increase of 0.9%, compared to 2015. The share of synthetic staple fibre yarn in Turkey’s yarn imports is 19.5%. Cotton yarn imports increased by 19.9% in 2016 to US$ 512 million. The share of Turkish yarn import in this product group is 16.9%.

Plastic Bottle Waste Spun into Fibers and Fabrics in Southeastern Turkey Plastic bottle waste spun into fibers and fabrics in southeastern Turkey A company in southeast Turkey’s Gaziantep province is turning mountains of plastic bottle waste into fluffy spindles of yarn and hygienic medical products Plastic bottle waste spun fibers fabrics Turkey A company in southeast Turkey’s Gaziantep province is turning mountains of plastic bottle waste into fluffy spindles of yarn and hygienic medical products. Gama Recycle Fiber and Yarn is Turkey’s largest integrated regenerated yarn manufacturer and largest polyester fiber maker—a feat accomplished completely through landfill scavenges. A company in southeast Turkey’s Gaziantep province is turning mountains of plastic bottle waste into fluffy spindles of yarn and hygienic medical products. Gama Recycle Fiber and Yarn is Turkey’s largest integrated regenerated yarn manufacturer and largest polyester fiber maker—a feat accomplished completely through landfill scavenges. Using a chemical process, the company converts water bottles imported from countries like the U.S.,

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Germany and Belgium into various fibrous products that are then exported to about 35 countries. Gama Recycle’s products are used in everything from textiles to packaging, as products made from plastic bottles have high flexibility, company chairman Zafer Kaplan told Anadolu Agency.”The polyester fibers we produce are exported to 10 countries mainly in northern Europe, while yarns are mainly exported to Indonesia, the United States and Colombia,” said Kaplan.

While the company began with yarns and fibers, its research and development efforts have succeeded in producing highly-absorptive medical and hygienic products in recent years. Kaplan, who founded the company in his hometown of Gaziantep in 1997, says Gama Recycle hopes to expand its business to $25 million in exports this year and $40 million in 2019. “We make about 500 tons of fiber per month from plastic bottles, and we have about $15 million exported annually,” Kaplan said, adding that the company has several expansions planned in coming months.Recycling practices remain below potential in Turkey, compared to recycling levels of around 75 percent in Europe, Kaplan added. “Twenty percent of the [recycled materials] are collected by manual systems, by means of the scavengers. There is no industrial separation system, so the garbage in homes needs to be separated and collected [by hand].”

“Eighty percent of it is left in the garbage, where it takes 300 years to decompose,” said Kaplan, who recommends developing an industrial separation system to capitalize on recyclable resources. Turkey has pioneered recycling efforts in recent years, both through awareness initiatives to empower individual consumers and also recycling infrastructure to take advantage of the resources discarded in the trash. A recent effort by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IBB) aims to increase the volume of renewable waste collected from Istanbulites through a new system that will refund the value of each recycling deposit to the resident’s megacity transport card.Istanbul, which is home to nearly 15 million people, produces an average of 17,000 tons of domestic waste every day, out of which 6,000 tons are processed in IBB’s garbage collection and recycling centers.

Turkish firm Ormo opens spinning mill in Serbia Turkish textile company Ormo has opened a yarn production facility in Lebane, in Jablanica district of southern Serbia. The Ormo Group, which is the largest exporter of wool in the world, invested €500,000 in the spinning mill, and it plans to invest additional €500,000 in 2018. The new mill will be operated by Ormo’s Serbian subsidiary LebanTeks. The new production facility has been set up in eight months in the premises of insolvent state-owned company Eksportekst. The Serbian government invested 200 million dinars ($2 million/€1.7 million) in renovation, the Serbian economy ministry said. Currently, LebanTeks has employed 300 people at

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the facility, and it plans to increase the number of employees to 650 in the next two years, Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic said while inaugurating the yarn manufacturing unit. Vucic said the new facility will export around €11 million worth of goods to Turkey, Russia and western Europe in 2018. The LebanTeks unit is the first factory opened in Lebane in the last 30 years, according to Serbian economy ministry.

Mr. Fuat Işık, owner of Fuat Işık İplik, answered questions of Fairworld Yarns for our 15. Internatıonal Yarn Fair issue.

Q - What would you like to say about Işık İplik? Can you tell us about your production works? FI - Our company was established in Bursa in 2007. Since its establishment, it tries to ensure customer satis faction at the highest level, aiming to provide in the most appropriate conditions needs of the textile industry. It keeps up with today’s technology taking action on the principle of improving itself and progress. We meet demands of customers through the wide product range on the basis of a customer-focused approach.

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Işık İplik Fuat Işık İplik offers products addressing to groups of fancy weaving, brode, apparel and embroidery at the best prices, highest quality and the short delivery dates, also supplying colorful and ecru brode yarns. Located on a 2000 sqm area, Fuat Işık İplik have a production capacity of 160 tones colorful and ecru brode yarns on a monthly basis. We aim to increase production efficiency of customers, working on same lots as long as possible in the production of colorful and ecru yarn.

Q - Why do customers choose your company’s products? FI - High quality, fast delivery and affordable price.

Q - Can you talk about your R&D activities? FI - Many products existing on the market are designed by Işık İplik because we have been in the market since 2000. We also lead the way for other companies. We are able to manufacture yarns in different qualities customizing our experience on metal works to the machinery.

Contact Information +90 224 361 29 29 +90 224 364 64 11 www.isikiplik.com

Demirtaş Dumlupınar OSB Mah. Sümbül Sok. No:8 Osmangazi/BURSA

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New brand identity for Egyptian Cotton Cotton Egypt Association has unveiled a new brand identity and digital platform for Egyptian Cotton at the Heimtextil trade fair for home textiles. The modern look is designed to convey the quality and natural beauty of Egyptian Cotton while engaging consumers, retailers and manufacturers with its heritage and values, the association explains. Developed with a UK-based brand specialist Salesworxs, the new platform places the consumer at the centre of the Egyptian Cotton experience, with a strong emphasis on how the luxury hand-picked fabric feels against the skin. “We believe that everybody should experience the luxuriously soft touch of Egyptian Cotton. We want people of all ages, worldwide, to seek out its strength, softness and durability. It’s all about the personal human touch,” commented Khaled Schuman, Executive Director of CEA “Our Sales and Marketing partner Salesworxs created a powerful brand identity, which reflects the brand’s heritage whilst educating our audience as to our core values.”

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Increasing consumer demand “It’s a privilege working with Cotton Egypt Association on a global project to reinforce Egyptian Cotton as the finest cotton in the world, and to bring the brand up to date with a relevant story,” said Salesworxs Managing Director, Richard Newman. “We know that a brand is a story that is always being told, it’s what people say about you when you’re not around. Egyptian Cotton is without question the world’s finest cotton, our job is to ensure our global audience recognise this when making purchasing decisions on relevant products such as home textiles and clothing.” The rebrand is designed to increase consumer demand and retailer confidence and will support the CEA’s efforts to rid the supply chain of falsely labelled Egyptian Cotton goods.

Protecting Egyptian Cotton’s legacy The Cotton Egypt Association is a non-profit association established in 2005 with support from the Ministry of Industry and Foreign Trade. The Association’s mission, working closely with local and international companies involved in the Egyptian Cotton supply chain, is to protect Egyptian Cotton’s legacy of luxury and help promote all Egyptian Cotton licensees and their products. Cotton Egypt’s mission is to manage, market, promote, license, and monitor the Egyptian Cotton logo and its licensees, as well as guarantee the authenticity of products licensed to use the logo. In addition to working with Egyptian Cotton growers and manufacturers, the Cotton Egypt Association has partnered with the IMC, The Export Councils, Cotton Organizations, NGOs and donors to ensure adhesion to international labour, safety and trade standards.

Kordsa’s Investments Continue at a Great Pace Through Capacity Increase Kordsa, operating in tire, construction reinforcement and composite technologies in a wide geography from America to Asia Pacific with the mission to reinforce life held a groundbreaking ceremony for an additional line in Izmit, Turkey to increase polyester yarn capacity by 7 thousand tons. In addition to this new polyester yarn line investment, Kordsa also held a groundbreaking ceremony for the “polypropylene monofilament” line in the field of construction reinforcement. Kordsa, a Sabancı Holding subsidary, the world’s leading nylon and polyester yarn and cord fabric producer, made a groundbreaking ceremony on December 19th, to expand its polyester capacity at its Izmit plant in order to meet the growing demand. Following the completion of the building construction and upon the arrival of new equipment, Kordsa aims to have an additional polyester yarn capacity of 7 thousand tons with an additional 3,500 m2 area in the current facility.

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Cenk Alper, Sabancı Holding Industry Group President, emphasized Kordsa’s success as the only global brand of the Group and its leadership in innovation in his speech at the groundbreaking ceremony. Alper said: “We proudly witness the global success of Kordsa, one of the major ambassadors of the Sabancı’s vision. Kordsa’s success story has started 44 years ago in İzmit and today, Kordsa has turned into a world leader. Kordsa reinforces 1 out of every 3 automobile tires and 2 out of every 3 aircraft tires manufactured globally. To maintain our technology leadership and move it even further, our smart investments continue without slowing down. In the fast-paced digital world, Kordsa will strengthen its presence day by day with its innovative technologies and continue to reinforce life. I wholeheartedly believe in it.” Kordsa CEO Ali Çalışkan expressed his gratitude in capacity increase and also shared the good news that they would also continue to expand their product line.

Çalışkan said: “Kordsa’s strong growth momentum continues. In 2017, we have globally adopted important investment decisions and strong business partnerships while reinforcing our success with domestic and international awards. We are proud to globally represent both our company and Sabancı Group as well as our country. This investment in İzmit, where we started our journey 44 years ago, is a major step for our global leadership. Kordsa’s first R&D Center was also established in İzmit. The role of our İzmit factory in Kordsa’s long-term expertise in reinforcement technologies and its market leadership is enormous. In 2016, we announced our USD 30 million investment of additional capacity in our facilities in Turkey and Indonesia. With the new line in our İzmit plant, we will be able to meet the growing demand faster and more efficiently. I am glad to share with you that our new polyester yarn line in Indonesia is operational now. We increased the polyester yarn capacity in this facility by 7 thousand tons. This investment will strengthen our position in the Asia-Pacific market that we have been operating since 2007. With our intensive R&D efforts and

open innovation mindset, we will continue to invest in developing innovative, value-added products that globally shape the industry. “ Kadir Toplu, Kordsa’s COO for Europe, Middle East and Africa region, gave detailed information about the capacity increase as well as expansion in product range: “As Kordsa, we distinguish in the construction reinforcement market with easy-to-use products that provides durability and high performance. Now, we expand our product range with the investment of ‘polypropylene monofilament’, which is a new type of our synthetic fiber reinforcement product, Kratos. Following its launch in 2018, this product will offer both sustainable high performance for our customers with its durable characteristic as well as cost advantage compared to its benchmarks in the market. We will provide this efficient and durable fiber reinforcement material both in Turkey and the European market. Kratos adds value to the tunnel and infrastructure projects as well as provides cost advantage, which differentiates Kratos from its competitors. This is a new product that excites us with all these features. We will continue to reinforce the world with our technology and products that change the rules of the game.”

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TENCEL® fibers for pillows TENCEL® branded lyocell fibers put to the test for use in pillows. Studies have shown that fillings of TENCEL® fibers are the perfect botanic alternative. The tests conducted have revealed that pillows filled with TENCEL® fibers score when it comes to moisture management, volume and ease of care.

The tests using Sherlock indicate that in pillows, TENCEL® fibers are leading the way to perfect moisture management. When used as a blending partner with polyester, TENCEL® fibers help to improve moisture absorption. It was revealed that the higher the share of TENCEL® fibers in the pillow, the better the moisture regulation becomes.

Pillows of TENCEL® fibers - a contribution towards the botanic bed

Easy-care and full-bodied

TENCEL® fibers are in use in almost every area to do with sleeping - starting with components for mattresses and mattress pads through to bed covers and linens. Another application in the bed segment is obvious: pillows with enhanced comfort. TENCEL® fibers scientifically tested using “Sherlock” for the very first time Meet “Sherlock”, a sweating, thermal manikin test device for clothing physiology from the Hohenstein Institutes. He was used for the first time to test pillows with fillings of TENCEL® fibers. Sherlock is used to test the wear comfort of different kinds of textile products. “Sherlock was deployed for this product category for the first time ever to test pillows of TENCEL® fibers”, Miriam Scheffelmeier, project manager at the Hohenstein Institutes, explains. “Sherlock works in precisely defined conditions in a climatic chamber”, Scheffelmeier continues.

Further research at Lenzing in relation to volume and washing tests has shown that TENCEL® fibers produce very good results when combined with polyester. Pillows with this fiber combination recover quickly after exposure to weight and moisture. Of all the pillows tested, the one with a filling of down and feathers came in last since the volume recovered only very slowly. Even after washing, the pillows with TENCEL® fibers performed well and are therefore ideally suited to household washing. Pillows for individuals With pillows of TENCEL® fibers, different filling levels are possible - from soft to solid and from flat to voluminous. Pillows can be designed to suit customers’ wishes in terms of the size, material and shape. A pillow for individualists that adapts to the sleeper. Say goodbye to the tension and headaches caused by non-optimized pillows!

Sustainable in many different ways:

Recycling At Trevira Trevira: Trevira SINFINECO®. This label may be

carried by all textiles that contain sustainable Trevira products. Sustainable, innovative, high-value and responsible – these are the values the new brand stands for.

As an industrial enterprise, Trevira is conscious of its special responsibility for an intact environment and has long advocated the recycling of valuable raw materials and waste products. Trevira CEO Klaus Holz: “We at Trevira wish to preserve the environment and at the same time work to create value. These are the criteria of our sustainability concept.“ Creation of the new brand is therefore only a logical step, one that enables customers to label their sustainable Trevira products as such. Trevira is known for the high quality of its products. In every way recycled products are as good as the original materials in terms of quality and performance. Two vital elements in Pre-Consumer Recycling and an important concept in Post-Consumer Recycling form part of the sustainability strategy of Trevira to conserve resources and maintain value. : In the area of Pre-Consumer Recycling, on the one hand, residual materials resulting from the manufacture of polyester fibres and filaments in Bobingen and Guben, dependent on the manufacturing step, are processed in the agglomeration plant and restored to become serviceable primary material. The recyclates are then fed back to our fibre and filament spinning mills, to be made into new top-quality products. On the other hand, in fibre production there occurs in the manufacture of tow a small proportion of tow that cannot be used for converting and has to be cut out. Instead of selling this material as waste, it is cut up, pressed into balls and then carded / combed by a partner, resulting in a 1A quality product. The GRS certification (Global Recycled Standard) is requested for this. As with converter tow from new material, the recycled tow is mostly incorporated into polyester wool blends (55 % PET / 45 % wool), which are used primarily in corporate wear and uniforms. In the area of Post-Consumer Recycling, Trevira offers filament yarns consisting of 100 % recycled PET bottles. Our parent company Indorama manufactures very high quality recycled chips from PET bottles. Since only transparent PET bottles are used in Thailand, the flakes and chips are of a particularly good and very uniform quality. The recycled chips, fibres and filaments from Indorama bear the GRS certificates (Global Recycled Standard) and RCS-NL (Recycled Claim Standard). Trevira processes the regranulate made by Indorama from bottle flakes into filament yarns consisting 100 % of recycled material. The filament yarns are available in titres 167 and 76 dtex normal polyester. Alongside technical applications, they are used in the automotive and apparel sectors. In addition, many promising developments with the recycled material are on their way. 72

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LOOKS FOR PRE-FALL 18 Paris-based fashion label, KOCHÉ showcased its 2018 Pre-Fall collection in partnership with The Woolmark Company in New York City. Held in the historic Strand bookstore, the collection offered inspiration from the energy of the city and was translated to show the multicultural and free spirit of those in New York. The men’s and women’s ready-to-wear designs blended sportswear mainstays with couture techniques that included 21 Merino wool pieces that were embroidered or printed, tying in exceptional craftsmanship supported by The Woolmark Company. “For the collection, I worked with Woolmark to source wool for a very casual street-inspired style and crafted pieces - like a coat where the wool is completely reworked with appliqué of vinyl and re-embroidered with crystals,” said KOCHÉ designer and founder, Christelle Kocher. “There are also included several hand knitted wool pieces.” This marks the first in a new two-season partnership between KOCHÉ and The Woolmark Company.

Kochè, along with Woolmark Kochè is a French luxury fashion brand founded by Parisian designer Christelle Kocher. With over 13 years of experience in the same field and having worked for brands such as Chloè and Botegga Venetta, Christelle founded Kochè in 2014. With over 30 selling points all over the world, the designs of Kochè are perfect combinations of aspects of high fashion, street culture and contemporary art. 74

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IKochè-Woolmark collaboration: The Woolmark Company is a well known Australian company that mainly produces and supplies excellent quality of wool to various textile and fashion industries. If the products of a brand fulfill the specifications given by The Woolmark Company then it gets Woolmark licensed. Kochè, along with its partner brand Woolmark is all set to make its way to New York this December 12th for a pre-fall fashion show. This is the designer’s first ever fashion show in New York which is of such great extent. Christelle has herself worked with Wool lab experts, especially for this show. She worked to help develop innovative as well as unique techniques for working with wool. “I am honored to begin this collaboration with The Woolmark Company for this New York fashion show”, stated Christelle. Christelle is also the creative head of Kochè.

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“Customer is always at the focus of our service concept” In FairWorld Home Textile interview, Mr. Recep Gezgin, General Manager of Reg Tekstil answered our questions for the Evteks issue.

Q - First, could you tell us about your company for readers?

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EG TEKSTİL A.Ş. was established in Kestel, Bursa in an attempt to manufacture yarn. Sharing its experience of 20 years with customers, Reg Tekstil have machinery that can be able to manufacture different fancy yarns in line with Kdk and customers. It produces about 100 tons of yarns monthly and continues to gradually expand its operations in both Turkey and overseas markets.

- Why do customers choose your company’s services?

Customer is always at the focus of our service concept. We manufacture at the highest level analyzing their need and demands in the most correct way.

onfidence, quality and customer satisfaction are our indispensable principles. Q - What is your most ambitious product and which product is sold the most? Product in which we are most ambitious and are sold the most is KDK yarn manufacturing from 100 to 200 denier. Q - What do you think of the overall condition of Turkeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s yarn industry and its future? As Turkey is one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading manufacturers of textile and yarn, it has a respected position in global markets through production and export volume. I think that domestic yarn industry achieving a great growth at a global level is a promising industry. Of course, imposing tariff on imported yarn in order to support domestic production will clear the way for us. 79

Birla Cellulose Expands Its Global Outreach With The Launch Of New York Design Studio - To provide instant service of sampling, drive co-creation programs with Global brands in USA - Create visibility of Birla Cellulose as a brand and a platform to boost garment exports Aditya Birla Group’s Birla Cellulose has launched its premier international design studio in New York, USA. At the opening ceremony, Mr. Rajeev Gopal, the Chief Marketing Officer of Grasim Industries Limited, a flagship company of Aditya Birla Group said that “It is a historic moment for all of us at Birla Cellulose as we embark on this new journey.” Mr. Gopal added “Birla Cellulose design studio will offer a one stop solution for brands in the US.” From fibre to fashion, Birla Cellulose, the Pulp and Fiber business of the Aditya Birla Group, is the global leader in Viscose Staple Fibre (VSF) which has touched lives across continents. Birla Cellulose fibers are of 100% natural origin, highly absorbent, have soft feel, and are completely biodegradable. In its quest to cater to the demand from the international market, Birla Cellulose has launched its design studio in New York fashion district (Birla Cellulose Studio, 525 7th Avenue, Suite #308, New York). The design studio will display a range of over 300 varieties of fabrics. The fabrics created by the value chain partners in India will display the best of innovations done on Modal, Viscose and Spunshades, apart from the core fabric collection. The studio will also have a display of 74 shades of dope dyed Spunshades fibres from Birla Cellulose. The design studio will offer a one stop solution for brands in the USA in terms of fabric samples in Viscose, Modal and Spunshade. Apart from fabric display, the studio will be actively involved in supply chain support from India, technical support to fabric manufacturers, fabric swatch support followed by yardages for making prototype samples. The active presence of the studio in New York will be a step towards reducing lead time for the buyers. 80

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Mr. Gopal said “Birla Cellulose is here to create awareness for international buyers on possible partnerships towards a mutually profitable growth. Birla Cellulose will exhibit innovations in fibres that work beautifully with the fashion sentiment. Thus re-enforcing the group’s philosophy of constant innovation to suit changing consumer needs.” Mr. Gopal also formally launched the SS19 fabric collection in viscose, modal, spun dyed which would be beneficial to the Fashion Industry as January and February are the months wherein the Industry looks forward to new SS19 fabric range. With this launch, Birla Cellulose has made its seasonal collection accessible for global markets. Birla Cellulose is a global leader with manufacturing in 6 countries & sales in over 65. In terms of sustainability, “Birla Cellulose has successfully completed Canopy Style Audit and its current supply chains confirm that the risk of sourcing wood from ancient and endangered forests or other controversial sources is low risk, which is an industry leading result.

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Chain of Custody (C-o-C) certification from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is available for our fibres. Aditya Birla Group’s VSF manufacturing units are certified under the ISO 9001 quality management system and ISO 14001 environmental management system,” informed Mr. Gopal. Recently, Birla Cellulose of the Aditya Birla Group has been ranked Number one globally by the NGO Canopy, in its Hot Button Report for its work on the conservation of ancient and endangered forests. Birla Cellulose has a ‘light green shirt’ ranking in the updated and expanded edition of the Hot Button Report, which ranks eleven viscose rayon producers that represent 70% of global viscose production. Mr. Gopal informed that Grasim Industries Limited the Indian arm of Birla Cellulose, has also been awarded the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) certified biobased product label for Birla Excel, Birla Viscose, Birla Modal and Birla Spunshades which was a milestone in reaching their sustainability journey and strengthening their belief that sustainability is at the core of Birla Cellulose’s business strategy.

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THAI ERI “SILK BLEND” YARNS FROM KONGKIAT THAI ERI SILK ‘Sustainable Cultivated Silk’ Cultivated silk does not involve pesticides, as the silk worms are highly sensitive to poisoning by agrochemicals. The agriculturists of Amnajcharone province who plant casava feed Eri worms for their extra income. The agriculturists can bring casava leaves to Eri worms for food. The villagers use traditional wisdom to make silk yarn. But it is very rough texture. Kongkiat Textile has developed making Eri silk yarn into industry. It is softer than traditional wisdom making.

Excellent Textile Properties Eri silk has certain excellent textile properties, which are unique in many respects such as fineness, density, cross, sectional shape, surface properties, which play on important role in determining the end use of the fiber.

Thermal Properties Eri is the softest and warmest among all the silk and possess excellent thermal properties and offers tremendous blending possibilities with other natural fibers like wool, cotton, and linen. It also has similar thermal properties when compared with wool. ‘ Eri silk is finer than Muga and Tasar, and softer than Mulberry silk ‘

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The Fashion Industry Requires More Transparency. The Answer is Lenzing™ EcoVero™ The New Standard In Eco-Responsible Viscose. Lenzing™ EcoVeroTM branded viscose fibers from Lenzing, with its state-of-the-art identification technology, supports eco-responsible fashion retailers and brands to become more transparent, especially with sustainability-minded consumers. Well known retailers are teaming up with Lenzing to advance their sustainability strategies with traceable Lenzing™ EcoVero™ fibers. Transparency trending up in the textile industry Society’s environmental awareness has been growing steadily over the last decade, especially in the fashion and textile industry. Consumers today expect responsible retailers and brands to know their supply chains and to be able to trace product origins. To meet these increasing consumer demands, the industry is anxiously looking for more sustainable and transparent supply chain solutions. With Lenzing™ EcoVero™ fibers, Lenzing launches unique environmentally friendly and traceable viscose fibers. A special manufacturing system enables Lenzing to identify Lenzing™ EcoVero™ fibers in the final product, long after the textile processing and conversion steps have been completed. This ability to easily verify the original fibers means that retailers and brands can be sure that they are indeed incorporating Lenzing’s eco-responsible viscose fibers, and not just any generic viscose that might not be in line with their sustainability goals. With this special identification technology for Lenzing™ EcoVero™ fibers, Lenzing provides an one-of-its-kind solution for the fashion industry and its supply chain to respond to consumer demands for reliable visibility of product origins that can be traced back to the fiber. Lenzing™ EcoVero™ fibers the new benchmark in viscose fibers What makes Lenzing™ EcoVero™ fibers so ecoresponsible? Lenzing enforces strict environmental standards during viscose production and has invested millions over the years to achieve eco-resposible production processes. Lenzing’s viscose production sites where Lenzing™ EcoVero™ fibers are made comply with the stringent guidelines of the EU Ecolabel, a worldleading environmental manufacturing standard. Lenzing is also very transparent regarding raw material sourcing practices. Lenzing™ EcoVero™ fibers are made from wood. . The wood comes from sustainable forestry plantations that are independently certified by industry-leading associations.

Lenzing has a comprehensive wood sourcing policy that goes above and beyond the call of duty to ensure that the most sustainable wood sources are used for viscose production. Lenzing™ EcoVeroTM fibers set a new industry standard in sustainable viscose based on the use of these sustainable wood sources (FSC® or PEFC® certified) and an ecological production process with significantly lower emissions and water impacts than conventional viscose. Retailers and brands teaming up with Lenzing Leading industry brands and retailers are teaming up with Lenzing and are using Lenzing™ EcoVero™ fibers in their collections to improve transparency and traceability, two critical components of a verifiable sustainability strategy that is in line with the demands of today’s market. For Gina Tricot, a Scandinavian retailer, Lenzing™ EcoVero™ fibers are the solution for viscose fibers. “With the viscose fiber EcoVero™ from Lenzing, we can offer our customers an eco-friendly solution for the viscose segment. We appreciate the high standard in Lenzing’s eco-friendly fiber production. Also, supply chain transparency is getting to be for us more and more important as customers want to know which kind of material is used for their garments. With the new identification technology from Lenzing, which is used in EcoVero™ fibers, we have full supply chain transparency. Our consumers can be sure that they are buying eco-responsible viscose garments”, says Brand Director Anna Appelqvist. Another retailer from Sweden, Lindex consider to take Lenzing™ EcoVero™ fibers into their collection. “We support Lenzing in their efforts of transitioning towards more sustainable viscose production. EcoVero™ fibers show concern for the origin of raw material as well as having a reduced environmental impact in the production process. We hope that this initiative will drive the development towards producing more sustainable viscose in the industry”, explains Production Sustainability Manager Anna-Karin Dahlberg. “The German brand ARMEDANGELS Viscose fiber production had been taking the wrong way for long time. We are more than happy to see Lenzing taking now the right step and being a pioneer in the industry by offering the first clean and sustainable viscose fiber made from certified wood in a new and clean process with the highest standards. Allowing brands to identify the use of Lenzing™ EcoVero™ fibers in the final product is adding an increased level of trust in the supply chain, thus ensuring full traceability. As a radically responsible fashion brand this is a great match for us and we are excited to be working with Lenzing to include EcoVero™ in our future product range”, CEO Martin Höfeler is convinced. Following yarn and fabric producers offering Lenzing™ EcoVero™ fibers • Yarn manufacturers • Jiangsu Dasheng Group Co. Ltd, China • Dezhou Huayuan Eco-Technology Co. Ltd, China • Botou Jinglun Textile Co. Ltd, China • Huafu Top Dyed Melange Yarn Co. Ltd, China • Karsu Textile™, Turkey • Inovafil - Fiação S.A., Portugal • Linz Textil Ges.m.b.H., Austria • Riopele - Têxteis, S.A., Portugal • Textil Santanderina S.A., Spain • Fabric producers • Tatfung Textile Co. Ltd , China • Barutçu Tekstil San. ve Tic. A.Ş., Turkey 90

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