Green Blossoms introduces sophisticated women’s shirts

Green Blossoms, a newly launched sustainable clothing company, introduces its line of sexy, sophisticated women’s shirts.

“I don’t consider myself a fashionista by any means, but after a long day at work, all I wanted to do was get out of my business suit and into a comfortable outfit,” says Michelle Lancaster, founder of Green Blossoms. “Many of the eco-fashion brands out now usually fall into one of several categories: printed t-shirts with social messages, or high-end and trendy designs, or yoga wear. That leaves out people in my generation, who sometimes just want a plain, simple, yet nicely fitted, flattering shirt. I know many women are like me in that they want to make environmentally conscious choices, but they still want to look good without being too trendy. We work hard all day, and sometimes we don’t want to have to work hard on our wardrobe also. These shirts were designed to do just that. Lounging around at home? These are perfect for that. Going out for drinks? Just add jeans and a blazer, maybe a necklace or scarf, and you’re set. Going for a run or yoga? Easy, just wear these over your sports bra.”

The women behind Green Blossoms treat the company as more than just a clothing line. In fact, the Green Blossoms blog is dedicated to helping women lead not just a greener lifestyle, but also healthier and happier lives. In addition to the occasional green tips and weekly do-it-yourself spa articles, Green Blossoms will be launching a new series designed to help find that work/life balance. 

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New products for prepreg components of Coatema at JEC

With over 1.000 Exhibitors from 96 countries was the JEC this year one of the bigger shows. For the 3rd time Coatema exhibited at the JEC and the enormous customer response showed the value Coatema is delivering into the market for prepreg and composite materials. Andrea Glawe, Deputy Sales Director “Due to the great success of this show we will be here next year and will also exhibit at the JEC in Singapore in
2010.

Coatema is building since more than 35 years equipment for coating, printing and laminating. The company portfolio includes everything labcoater, pilotcoater and production lines. The product benefits are multifunctional layouts and versatile equipment layouts. A big part of Coatema`s work is also custom made solutions for specific customer request. For labcoaters the newest invention is the Coatema Smartcoater with R2R EEx operation on 100 mm working width and with 5in1 coating, printing, impregnation and lamination system.

In pilotcoaters for prepreg and composites the new product is the Click&Coat, a system which can be easily combined in new process combinations for different processes, this system is applied for patent and is available in 300 mm and 500 mm working width.

Production lines, the core business for Coatema are designed and build up to a working width to 5.400 mm. In the production layouts for prepreg units Coatema offers a variety of systems for

- The handling of rovings, woven substrates and release liner
- A variety of coating, impregnation and lamination technologies
- Calendaring, slitting and cutting systems
- Inline quality control systems

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26 German companies to participate in ITMA + CITME

Just in time before the leading trade fair in Asia, ITMA ASIA + CITME 2010, which will open its doors end of June in Shanghai, the economical sky for the textile machinery industry finally brightened again. Incoming orders where 130 percent above the result of the first quarter of the year before. VDMA Textile Machinery Association predicts an increase in sales volume of 30 to 35 percent compared to 2009.

“After two extremely difficult years, the German textile machinery manufacturers are guardedly optimistic for the future” explains Fritz P. Mayer, Chairman of the Textile Machinery Association and Managing Partner of Karl Mayer Textilmaschinenfabrik GmbH.

Order inflow clearly increased
In 2008 and 2009, the companies of this branch had to accept a historical slump with its consequences on production and export. After a soil had developed in the first quarter of 2009, from the fourth quarter 2009 the incoming orders significantly increased. As a result, the exports also developed positively. In the last quarter of 2009 they reached a volume of 555 million Euros. In January and February 2010 already, textile machinery worth 533 million Euros have been exported so that – even with a conservative estimate – a clear increase of the exports has to be expected for the overall first quarter.

Asia dominated the purchase markets
55 percent of the overall exports in 2009 representing 1.8 billion Euros went to Asia. The two big volume markets alone, China and India, imported German textile machinery and accessories of roundabout 628 and 161 million Euros respectively. In January and February 2010, the exports to China rose by 37 percent to 83 million Euros compared to the same period the year before. Besides China also the exports to other Asian countries showed a clear stimulation of the market: Iran 6.8 million Euros (+50 %), Thailand 4.1 million (+42 %), Vietnam 1.7 million (+35 %), Bangladesh 2.7 million Euros (+8 %).

5,000 square meters made in Germany
This favourable economic trend is also reflected by the German participation in ITMA ASIA + CITME 2010. With 105 exhibitors the German companies represent the biggest European group within the CEMATEX countries. All renowned manufacturers will be present at this leading fair in Shanghai and show innovative textile production technique “made in Germany”.

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French technology to boost Indian textile industry’s competitiveness

The French textile machinery manufacturers realise the importance of the Indian textile industry. Hence they invited the Indian textile producers to a series the Indo-French seminar “French Technology to Boost the Indian Textile Industry’s Competitiveness” which were held in Mumbai and Ludhiana on 20th and 23rd April 2010 respectively. Both the seminars were a huge success with a participation of more than 150 companies in Mumbai and close to 200 in Ludhiana.

The French machinery manufacturers recognise that the Indian textile industry has a double challenge:
- to cater to the fast growing domestic market for higher quality products
- to stand up to the competition in order to take advantage of globalization.
The objectives of the seminars were:
- to present how the French technology can enable the Indian textile producers to enhance
their position by providing sustainable competitive advantages in the following markets:
Recycling - Nonwovens - Technical textiles - Yarn preparation and yarn treatment - Modern weaving
- Knitting - Dyeing and Finishing - Air conditioning of textile plants.
- to regularly facilitate (the previous edition of these seminars took place two years ago) direct contacts between the Indian textile producers and the top management of the French machinery producers. Mrs Evelyne Cholet, the Secretary General of UCMTF, the French Textile Machinery Manufacturers’ Association, has always played a major role in the organisation of these seminars in India. She realises the importance of direct contact with the customers. According to her: “Organisation of such seminars in India is very important at present especially when the Indian Government realises the importance of new investments in textile machinery to stimulate this strategic sector. The technical textiles sector for which France has an expertise is another sector which has great potential in India”.

Hence the main aim of these seminars was to promote Indo-French partnerships in order to address the challenges of globalization.

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Refinancing fund to revive jute sector

In its attempt to restore the jute industry, Bangladesh Bank (BB) has created Tk 5 billion worth re-financing fund for them.

The fund was recently approved by the Board of Directors of BB and it will be distributed to 16 public listed jute mills, through state-owned commercial banks.

The decision of creating this fund came in accordance with the Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina’s directive of creating a fund, during a meet at her office in January.

The BB officials informed that, these 16 jute mills had, during the period July-January, acquired around Tk 8 billion worth of raw jute. However, they failed to acquire more quantity, despite the requirement, due to scarcity of funds.

The central bank officials stated that financial crisis for jute mills will come to an end as they will be able to obtain funds from BB’s refinancing fund.

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