All Chemical Industries Association articles in March 2018
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NewsPsoriasis: PCDS treatment pathway provides practical advice for GPs
Drs Angela Goyal and Kash Bhatti provide an overview of the PCDS primary care treatment pathway for psoriasis and discuss the importance of lifestyle advice and skin-directed treatment
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Features‘Bullet-proof’ wood developed
Chemical treatment makes ‘densified’ wood 10 times tougher than its natural counterpart
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ResearchTrends in knitting
Global shipments of single jersey circular knitting machinery declined by 1.4% to 9,235 machines in 2016 after falls of 3.4% in 2015, 56.7% in 2014 and 1.3% in 2013. Global shipments of double jersey circular knitting machinery declined by 3.3% to 16,924 machines in 2016 following a 7.0% fall in 2015.
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ResearchShuttleless looms
In shuttleless loom weaving, weft is inserted using such technologies as air jets, water jets, rigid or flexible rapiers, or projectiles.
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ResearchOverview of the sector
2016 was a mixed year for the international fabric machinery market, according to data supplied by the International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF).
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ResearchTrends in weaving
In weaving, shipments of shuttleless looms to the world’s textile industries rose by 3.9% to 84,733 machines in 2016 following a 13.8% increase in 2015. As a result, shipments reached their fourth highest level on record and were above their annual average over the ten years to 2016. However, they ...
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ResearchCircular knitting machinery
Single jersey machines accounted for 35.3% of global shipments of circular knitting machinery in 2016 (Table 5). This share was up slightly compared with 34.9% in the previous year, despite a 1.4% decline in shipments of this type of machinery in 2016. Shipments of double jersey machines fell by a ...
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ResearchSingle jersey circular knitting machinery
Global shipments of single jersey circular knitting machinery fell by 1.4% to 9,235 machines in 2016 (Table 6). The fall followed declines of 3.4% in 2015, 56.7% in 2014 and 1.3% in 2013 and, as a result, shipments in 2016 were at their lowest level since 2003.
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ResearchDouble jersey circular knitting machinery
Global shipments of double jersey circular knitting machinery declined by 3.3% to 16,924 machines in 2016 (Table 8) following a 7.0% fall in 2015. However, the fall in 2015 came after increases in five of the previous six years. As a result, shipments in 2016 were still at their third ...
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ResearchShuttleless looms: regional markets
Shipments of shuttleless looms to the textile industries in Asia rose by 2.2%, or 1,635 machines, to 77,183 machines in 2016 (Table 2 and Figure 1).
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ResearchShuttleless looms: individual country markets
The largest national market for shuttleless looms in 2016, for the 22nd year in a row, was the textile industry in China.
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ResearchElectronic flatbed knitting machinery
Global shipments of electronic flatbed knitting machinery shot up by 99.1% to 139,636 machines in 2016. The rise followed jumps of 52.1% in 2015 and 31.0% in 2014 and, as a result, shipments reached a record high in 2016.
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FeaturesTextile Outlook International, No 189, December 2017
Business and market analysis for the global textile and apparel industries
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ResearchPerformance Apparel Update
Directa Plus has collaborated with Colmar and Eurojersey in the development of a New Apparel collection and a new fabric collection Directa Plus—an Italy-based provider of graphene treatments for consumer products—has collaborated with Colmar in the development of a ski apparel collection and with Eurojersey[1] in the development of a ...
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ResearchA guide to searching and using Markush structures
For most people who read patents, Markush structures are fabulous things.
