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New SS’15 Concepts By Soorty

Sandeep Agarwal — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 07:24:18 +0000

Soorty (Pakistan) is presenting some novel concepts for the SS’15 season at Denim by PV to be held on 27^th and 28^th Nov at Paris. Here is a teaser of some of these concepts to be launched at this show .

One Dip

Color denim which is sustainable, cost effective, and low MOQ
A very interesting combination of characteristics for color denim. Soorty introduces One DIP color denim concept. It is dipped in different moods of summer and passionate emotions. Garments made with this concepts saves 50% chemical and Water as claimed by the co.

4X4

4x 4 fabrics combine both Lycra fiber and T400 fiber a.k.a. Dual FX yarn in the weft. Soorty has developed different fabrics in order to explore the maximum potential of Dual FX technology

Extreme Sports

The extreme sport is not only about strength, it’s more about the character. The real power is to recover and retain your strengths after exposing yourself to dangers of extreme sports. This fabric collection has extremely high stretch with a great recovery.

University Life

Explaining this concept, their development team says :

“University life is a most important and memorable time your life. This is where your character is made, your lifestyle moulds and friends for life are made. Our collection will also tell a tale for your lifestyle as we don’t want you wash your jeans and forget about any bacteria or fungi growth, as this is antimicrobial. So save detergent cost and water and play your part in preserving the environment.

Dance

Soorty development team describes this concept as:

“Rhythm, poise and expressions are the souls of Dance and also life. All of these combine to put a great show in the act of life. Inspired by this expression we present you our Dance collection. It is a super fine, compact and hairless fabric”.

Coating Kitchen

Having worked hard on their coating technology , the team confidently asserts:

“This PV we are going to take an edge over completion in terms of Coated fabrics. We have one of the widest range of coating techniques in market. We have realy gone back to drawing board and researched some new recipes and processes. Our coating kitchen is bound to surprise each and everyone. It has tattoos. Denim Art, Gold Miner, Rider, Planets and platter to name few. This should be one of the most anticipated collection launch in PV”.

3 Sixty

The 3Sixty X Fit collection from Soorty is also going to make a debut at PV. More details on the same here.

For more info on these concepts , contact Soorty here.

Denim Mills in USA – Struggling and Shutting Down. A review

Sandeep Agarwal — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:38:33 +0000

The fascinating world of Denim is briefly highlited on a quick Mill Tour.
Fierce Middle East and Orient lower price on fabric and apparel manufacturing has forced some America Mills to shutdown.
When you go into the Mills facility the characteristic good smell of cotton dominates.
All Mills listed use Rope Dye process, will describe Open Yarn Dye process in some Puebla Mexico Mills.
Wich one is better, well : Cone and all below will tell you Rope Dyeing is the Best, but others will say Open Yarn Dye its better, really both are good and by the fabric looks its impossible to tell wich Dye process was used.
1.-Swiftgaley Yarn facility at Columbus Georgia represented the bloom of the Denim Mills in North America in the past Century, located in an old Downtown building, it was amazing how yarn was manufactured in different floor levels of the Old building, then truck carried to a Modern finish Plant nearby Downtown Columbus. Mill was shut a couple of years ago.
2.-White Oak , Conedenim s flagship Mill in Greensboro N.C. it is an appropiate layout to produce Denim, it is impressive by all means: contrasting its antique selvedge looms, its museum and modern state of the art Denim manufacture and expert knowledge its people has gotten thru the years.
3.-Mount Vernon Mills located in cute Trion Georgia, Denim Mill aside the Piece Died facility, impressive automated warehouse and truck loading, huge facility.
With a first quality Lodge in the Mill courts to receive its distinguished visitors.
4.-Avondale Mills, Eva Jane Plant in Sylacauga Alabama, another big Mill with a modern layout and state of the art Indigo Dye process.
This is another Mill Company that struggled after the 2005 train derrailment and chlorine spill in Graniteville plant. Avondale finally shut was shut down.

5.-ACG Mills -Lubbock Texas based : located in Littlefield Texas. Mill thats setting a trend by acquiring Guatemala s giant jean operation: Koramsa now named Denimatrix
This looks like a good move from ACG, still need to see if brotherhood brings prosperity.
We all in the Denim world hope it does.

This is a guest post by Jorge Esparza of Mexico . He started on the Denim Jean manufacturing in 1995 in the Torreon Mexico area, once considered a very important Denim mfg.hub. With over 4 years on the Sew floor knowledge and 5 years dealing with Denim fabric issues Jorge has visited most major Mexico and USA mills for quality review.

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100 jobs cut at ITG Denim Plant in Greensboro , USA

Sandeep Agarwal — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:08:13 +0000

International Textile Group Inc. has cut 100 jobs at its White Oak denim-manufacturing plant in Greensboro — about 25 percent of the work force.

It is the second time in five months that the company has eliminated jobs at the plant in an attempt to balance production capacity with demand for its denim from such customers as Levi’s. ITG cut 150 jobs in December as part of eliminating yarn production at the plant.

We have seen considerable negative news related to Denim plants originating in last one year specially from US and Europe –

M0unt Vermon Mills cuts 250 jobs at Trion Plant

UCO Denim Unit Shutting Down

Hope we don’t see many more of these news â€¦..

Raymond denim to be sold after UCO denim unit shutting out?

Sandeep Agarwal — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:15:36 +0000

The denim unit of the UCO appears to have shut down resulting in a loss of more than 350 jobs . It was a part of the Raymond UCO denim. The two companies had merged their denim operations in 2006 with headquarters in Belgium and forming a combined entity manufacturing about 80 million metres of denim.
Raymond has been suffering huge losses on its denim operations for the last few quarters. In the last financial year, the losses to the tune of Rs120 cr(about USD 29 million) were declared by the Raymond Group on its denim operations.
As per reports in a national paper , Raymond appears to be willing to put its denim operations on the block. The worsening denim market coupled with increased prices of raw material – cotton – have contributed to this poor performance by the company. However, according to informed sources, Raymond has not yet taken a decision to this effect .
Raymond Denim is one of the most respected denim company in India and enjoys a good brand image overseas. It deals with all the major denim labels and is well known for its denim developments.
Then what are the reasons for the current situation?
I think the merger with UCO was mistimed . Europe is no longer the right place to manufacture low value textiles like denimand to take up cost of running a number of manufacturing units there pulled heavily on Raymond Denim’s balance sheet. To top it up, the denim markets scenario worsened , rupee appreciated against the dollar and raw material (cotton fibre) became costly, wiping out margins.
However, it still seems unlikely that Raymond will sell of its denim unit – though it may restructure it The denim operations align well with the other textile products of Raymond(Suitings,Apparel etc) and unless Raymond is unable to make a reduction in losses even in this year (with a much depreciated rupee) , I don’t think they would like to sell their denim operations.

Denim Mills-Worldwide (India,China,Turkey,Pakistan & more)

Sandeep Agarwal — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:38:30 +0000

I often need to check out various Denim Mills around the world – just to see what they are doing. It was a painful task to keep track of their web addresses and then individually search their sites and the web. Now I have found a very easy and clean way to checkout all these mills around the world in a few minutes.
Visit this List of Denim Mills Worldwide and you will see the site of Cone Denim of US opened. You can easily browse through the site. Now, you will see NEXT button on the top left . Click on the same and you will see site of another Denim Mill from USA. Also below the TITLE (on the blue frame) there is written the country name – USA. When we click on this, the names of other countries slide down. One can easily select any country name and the DENIM MILL sites of that country will start opening.
What if I want to see which companies are covered from one country ?
Easy… Just click on the TITLE and you will see slide down of names of companies in that country and one can click on any name and open their site..
I could cover Denim Mills from many countries like Turkey, Italy, USA,Spain, India, Pakistan, China,Taiwan,Hongkong, Japan, Bangladesh etc etc.. I think its really cool.. Would be good to have comments of the readers.
Also don’t forget to open the category of DENIM TRENDS (which will come alongwith the country list) to see the latest trends in Denim.
And for those looking for some Buyers of Denim and Buyers of Jeans , click accordingly..

Note: Click on the category name to open other categories. Also,click on TITLE to see other links in that category. Eg if you see ‘USA denim mills ‘ category, click on the same to reach the companies in other countries. OR JUST KEEP ON CLICKING NEXT..

Alternatively you can just check the Denim Mills Directory

Tavex acquires denim manufacturin facilities in Mexico

Sandeep Agarwal — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:41:55 +0000

The Tavex Group of Spain(Madrid) – the famous denim company of Europe – which already owns manufacturing facilities in the city of Puebla in México, is working to expand its capacity through the acquisition of the denim manufacturing facilities of the company ACOTEX in Puebla and Tlaxcala . This will take the capacity of Tavex in Mexico to about 30 million metres pa.
"Our objective with this investment is to increase Denim production in the differentiated products segment (Authentic and Premium lines) in North America," comments Herbert Schmid – the CEO of Tavex.
Well, its a good move by Tavex since they must have bought these facilities at relatively easier prices due to the not so good condition of Denim.

It also shows that the Europeans are proving to be better at managing the Denim – especially since Denim has turned into a fashion product with lot of differentiation required. American companies had a better hold on denim when it was a basic product and few qualities could be produced in huge quantities.

However, we will see in the long run that this product will get shifted to Asia almost completely as the costs of productions go up in all European and American nations.

EFS System installed by three denim mills

Sandeep Agarwal — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 06:04:42 +0000

Cone Denim (in Jiaxing,China),Central Textiles(Hong kong) and Lanyan Group(China) have installed the Electronic Fibre Selection System from Cotton Incorporated. This computer software technology driven system aims to optimize the quality and consistency of the cotton fibre – meant to help in producing high quality yarns .
Also, this helps the American Cotton Exporters as more American Cotton is expected to be used by mills using the EFS system.
Well its a good move by the Cotton Inc. to increase its Cotton exports.
Let’s wait and see how profitable wwill it be for the companies who have installed it ..