Speaking from a Swedish perspective, we are a small country, highly dependent on international trade, so the shutdown of other countries had a big impact, even though Sweden itself never went into a total lockdown. Some orders were canceled and others had to be put on hold, and the fact th
Due to the outbreak, ITMA Asia + CITME 2020, which has been postponed for more than 8 months, will start on June 12. This is the first professional exhibition of textile machinery in the world since the ITMA Barcelona 2019.
After the end of the ITMA Barcelona 2019, the globa
As per USDA’s first cotton forecast for 2021/22, global cotton consumption is expected to grow by 3.5 percent to almost 122 million bales in 2021-22. World cotton trade is expected to witness slight drop during the year tough exports are expected to more than double, to 697,000 tonne due t
The economic recovery in the U.S. will continue for the rest of 2021, the nation’s purchasing and supply executives said in the Spring 2021 “Semiannual Economic Forecast” from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Business Survey Committees.
ISM said expectations for th
In France, there have been different phases since the beginning of the pandemic. Stores selling apparel or home textile are not considered as essential. They have been closed several times. Then you may imagine turnover at the retail level was way down in 2020 and probably will be ag
On May 20, “2021 China Textile Innovation Annual Conference and International Forum on New Functional Materials” was held in Changle District, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. The conference focused on the theme of “New Era, New Materials, New Momentum”, the conference discussed new ideas and n