Large Marketplace Emerges in China for Home Furnishings
SHANGHAI, China — Shanghai now well established as the world’s factory that produces and supplies home textiles for global markets, is now being targeted as a large market place for furnishings. China is likely to have over 600 million… Read more.December 2, 2011
Velvet Gives Flock Fabrics New Life, Increased Sales Microfibres, Spectro Coating Benefit With Diverse End Use Markets
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina — As the demand for velvet increases at the expense of leather and chenille fabrics in the furniture industry, Microfibres and Spectro in Leominster, MA., two of the last surviving flock producers in the U.S.… Read more.December 2, 2011
Veteran Nunnally Heads Up Duro Decorative Import Business
FALL RIVER, Massachusetts — Duro Industries, a wet print and pigment textile printer, has thrown its hat into the upholstery ring with a line of imported Chinese made fabrics with proprietary designs to be shown at Showtime. Jack… Read more.December 2, 2011
Richloom Shanghai’s Spangler Says: “Hospitality Goes Through The Roof” Dubai Hotel Business Turns Up Again
Shanghai, PRC — A resurgence of the hospitality business in the Middle East, especially in Dubai is back on track giving Richloom Shanghai Trading Ltd. a 30 percent boost in business in 2011, according to Glenda Spangler, a fifth year American… Read more.December 2, 2011
Devantex Velvets Tries to Win Through Constant Innovation
BRUSSELS, Belgium — “We believe we can double our sales by exporting to China alone,” said Ivan Vandekerckhove, chief executive of Devantex nv, a woven velvet producer based in Deerlijk that was started by his father in the 1950’s. Devantex… Read more.December 2, 2011
KETS Offers Stain Relief, New Outdoor Fabric Lines
BURSA, Turkey — Kadifeteks, (KETS) considered the largest upholstery mill in Turkey today, producing 1.5 million meters of fabric each month, has added ‘Easy-Life’ stain release capabilities to its new polyester based fabric lines… Read more.December 2, 2011
Ausen Design Center Opens Xingbang; Downtown Shanghai Bund Location Debuts Top Brands 2012
XINBANG TOWN, China—The creators of the Ausen IDC designer showroom in Xinbang has announced the 2012 opening of a new project in downtown Shanghai right off the Bund and right next to the luxurious Waldorf Astoria Hotel which opened… Read more.December 2, 2011
High, Volatile Silk Prices Make Way for Cheaper Polyester, Viscose Substitutes
Bangalore, India —Indian silk exporters for three decades were the most smiling community but are now distressed facing multiple problems to earn a decent profit to stay on course. "We are strained as silk yarn prices have touched $54… Read more.December 2, 2011
