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16 May 2006
Researchers at CSIRO in Australia are developing a "second skin" to help protect the body against wounds and major traumas, with the elderly a major target for the research.
5 May 2006
A rural consultant in Australia has told a seminar that recent price rises for wool are an indication of a strong future for the industry, and growers should be cautious about moving into other areas such as cattle farming.
2 May 2006
The Chinese textile industry continued to grow in Q1 despite falls in export growth to the US and EU.
22 May 2006
India is planning to set up 25 textile parks over the next 18 months in a bid to boost competitiveness in the industry.
15 May 2006
Bangalore is emerging as a key sourcing destination in India with several major international brands setting up offices there.
In the UK the underlying rate of growth in retail sales slowed further in February, following a relatively weak January according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
12 May 2006
The Australian Wool Market finished the week 1.1% higher, on average, at sales in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle.
11 May 2006
The outstanding retail apparel sales achieved in Japan during the final few months of 2005, slowed during January and February.
10 May 2006
Although the aggregate wool demand at retail level (all end-uses: apparel and non-apparel) fell during 2005, wool apparel demand showed a small increase compared to 2004. Overall apparel sales in Germany during the year were assisted by lower-priced imports from China. Knitwear imports were particularly strong and imports from China/Hong Kong increased their dominance dramatically during 2005. China displaced Italy as the number one supplier of knitwear by volume, with wool knitwear imports from China averaging roughly half the per unit value of Italy's.
9 May 2006
Romania is a key country for low-cost wool apparel manufacturing for the EU market. Even as an EU candidate country Romania had already seen high levels of investment within the wool worsted spinning and apparel manufacturing sectors. Accession to the European Union on 1st January 2007 is likely to signal further foreign investment.
3 May 2006
Italy's imports of raw and semi-processed wool are expected to show a decline of 10% year-on-year for January-December 2005.
In another week of rising exchange rates and high pass-in rates, the Australian Wool Market finished the week 1.0% lower, on average, at sales in Sydney and Melbourne and Fremantle.
6 May 2006
Nationally, the volume of wool tested by AWTA in March 2006 rose solidly compared with March 2005. However, the Easter holiday period in 2005 occurred in March, a month prior to this year's break and the month difference makes any gains larger than what would have otherwise been the case. AWTA estimate that the 'Easter effect' has accounted for around one tenth of the monthly gain in test volumes in March 2006.
18 May 2006
According to Chinese Customs Service statistics, the aggregate volume of raw and semi processed wool imports for the first two months of 2006 rose by well over half compared with the same period a year earlier.
17 May 2006
All of the key IWTO wool producing regions anticipate a rise in sheep numbers for the 2005/06 season compared with the previous season.
23 May 2006
In 2005, Japan imported the second largest volume of chiefly wool men's suits in history.
24 May 2006
The Bank of Korea (BOK) reported Korea's consumer confidence index rose to the highest level in 4 years during the first quarter 2006 and the central bank anticipates the Korean economy to accelerate further during the first half of 2006.
25 May 2006
Based on figures to the end of the March 2006 quarter from AWTA, year-on-year changes in in-store grower stocks in Australia declined 5% compared to the March 2005 quarter.
26 May 2006
The Australian Wool Market finished the week 0.6% higher, on average, at sales in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle.
30 May 2006
Despite a year-on-year decline in wool-type apparel sales in key Chinese department stores during February, total sales for the first two months of 2006 rose solidly.