Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Import Scenario of Chinese Textile Machinery Industry

2007 was year of great success for Chinese textile machinery market. In this year machinery manufacturer experienced orders pouring and the market witnessed attention of world focusing on Chinese machinery. Many leading machinery manufacturers chose China for expanding their production base and established their manufacturing Unit in China. Oerlikon is one of those companies who selected china for their Asian manufacturing hub who believed China is one of the highest promising markets in Asia considering the fact that China accounted for 17% of total 37% of Oerlikon's sales in Asia in the first nine months of 2007.

China imported textile machinery worth 4 billion USD in the year 2007 as textile industry of China went for modernization. Main export destinations were Japan and Europe. Main import market for textile machineries were provinces like Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong which accounted for 71% of the China's overall imports.

Customs Statistics revealed that in the first half of this year, total imports of textile machinery together with other machineries reached US $2.38 billion, a growth of 4.7 percent over the same period last year. Of this, June imports marked $410 million, an increase of 11.1 percent.

Textile machinery imports in general trade fetched $1.4 billion, an increase of 3.6 percent a drop of 54.2 percentage points in growth rate, accounting for 58.8 percent of the total imports made by China in the first six months of this year. Moreover, equipment imports under investment by foreign-invested enterprises scored $680 million, down 1.4 percent and accounting for 28.6 percent of the total.

In the period under review, textile machinery imports by foreign invested enterprises amounted to $1.07 billion, an increase of 3.5 percent over the corresponding period last year and commanding 45 percent of China's total textile machinery imports. On the contrary, imports made by the private sector fell by 0.8 percent to $620 million while those made by state-owned enterprises plunged by 0.1 percent to $490 million.

Individually, textile machinery imports of Zhejiang stood at $550 million representing an increase of 8.5 percent, while those of Jiangsu and Guangdong stood at $510 million and $420 million marking a decline of 17.3 and 15.3 percent respectively. Together, the three provinces accounted for 62.2 percent of the total textile machinery imports.


Read More.........


More Articles.........

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Cambridge Solucent woven metal fabric shines in Silicon Valley

A metal fabric shading system from Cambridge Architectural delivers a smart and fresh design for 116 University Avenue, matching the building's place and purpose in the heart of high-tech Palo Alto, CA.

Serving as the focal point of Silicon Valley, the city of Palo Alto is home to numerous technology companies and firms, the most prominent being the Internet giant Facebook. 116 University Avenue is one of ten buildings that make up Facebook's “campus”. Situated between Stanford University and downtown Palo Alto, it houses the Facebook Cafe – the company's upscale employee cafeteria.

The 10,000 square foot structure is also home to the architectural firm that designed it. Joseph Bellomo Architects was looking for a modern edge and a transparent building shell that would shade the sun and control the amount of light entering their offices. They were so impressed with Cambridge's architectural mesh panels, that they specified them for their own use. The panels were able to perform all of the necessary functions while meeting the architect's forwardthinking design needs.

A Cambridge Solucent woven metal fabric shading system inventively adorns the expansive windows and concrete exterior of 116 University Avenue, angled to reduce the southern to western setting sun exposure. The result is a breathtaking architectural element which reduces solar heat gain, optimizes daylighting and makes the building exterior stand out – especially through its interplay with the setting California sun.

“116 University Avenue is a building that sticks in your memory,” says Heather Collins, Director of Marketing for Cambridge Architectural. “Our mesh was chosen not only because it created such a unique design, but because underneath it all, the building interior benefits from lower cooling costs and improved occupant performance.”

The project team was immediately drawn to architectural mesh for 116 University Avenue because of its flexibility in both design and function. The texture and overall physical nature of the material served both of these purposes.

“Cambridge's mesh veils and highlights the structure,” says Joseph Bellomo, Principal of Joseph Bellomo Architects, the architect of the project. “It also reduces solar heat gain and blocks about 50% of the sunlight and glare coming through the windows, without blocking the views out of those windows.”

Read More..