Indonesia's industrial printing area is in recession,
putting many firms out of business at Cimahi in Bandung.
Industry sources report that many printing firms at Cimahi in Bandung have been forced to close down (48 companies) and many other printing firms have reduced and suspended their operations. According to sources familiar with the situation in Indonesia, there are hundreds of printing and dyeing firms at Cimahi. Most of them have imported Chinese gray polyester fabric and carried out finishing, but recently the amount of processing is decreasing in Indonesia because of increases in Chinese printing, which has resulted in printing thickener distributors having to change their trade.
Dyestuff manufacturers in Indonesia put emphasis on exports.
Four major dyestuff manufacturers in Indonesia have been putting emphasis on subcontracted production for overseas famous dyestuff companies and exporting dyestuff for paper because domestic demand for dyestuff has been decreasing.
Nisshinbo consolidates denim business in Shimada and Fujieda plants.
Nisshinbo will consolidate domestic production bases for its denim business in two factories, the Shimada and Fujieda plants by moving denim yarn production facilities from the Harisaki plant (Okazaki, Aichi) to the Fujieda plant (Fujieda, Shizuoka) by December 2007 to achieve improved productivity and assembled technology of their denim business. Facilities they plan to move are 8,736 spindles for spinning machines, of which 7,728 spindles will go to the Fujieda plant and 1,008 spindles to Nikawa Textile Industry (Indonesia). In accordance with this move, a part of the existing facilities (6,912 spindles) at the Fujieda plant are scheduled to be removed, which makes domestic facilities amount to 123,700 spindles (currently 131,600) in total. After completion of the move, the Harisaki plant will be closed and it is planned to promote effective use of vacant land through redevelopment.
Polylactic acid is added to designated terms for descriptive labels of textiles.
Effective from August 1, 2007.
Mr. Takeshi Matsuo, Director for Textile and Clothing of the Textile Division in the Manufacturing Industries Bureau in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said in a special lecture for the 30th anniversary of ATTS that as a partial revision of the Textile Product Quality Labeling Standards, polylactic acid has been newly added to a list of designated terms which will be put into effect from August 1, 2007. Toray and Unitika announced that they would expand the production of polylactic acid fiber as an environment-friendly fiber.
ISO’s revision for care labeling codes using symbols.
Outline will become clear in July.
Mr. Takeshi Matsuo, Director for Textile and Clothing of the Textile Division in the Manufacturing Industries Bureau in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry announced at the meeting of ATTS (February 16, 2007 Osaka) the revision for care labeling codes using symbols which had been under consideration since 1991, saying, "its baseline was released in May 2005, but there were flaws in the issuing process of the ISO Bureau and the U.S. and Japan called for a review which resulted in a further review. In response to this, it has been under consideration again since June 2006."
According to his announcement, the introduction of symbols including the one for air drying requested by Japan has been under active consideration. The direction of the revision will be clear at the SC which is scheduled to be held in the U.S. in July 2007 after the WG held in January 2007 in Japan.
ATTS holds 30th anniversary convention on February 16 in Osaka with over 120 attending and special lecture about future of China.
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| Scene from ATTS' 30th anniversary convention |
The 30th anniversary convention of the Association for Textile Technical Study (ATTS) was held at MIELPARQUE Osaka in Yodogawa-ku, Osaka on February 16, 2007 and attracted more than 120 people from the industry.
On the day, Mr. Kenichi Nishida, special adviser of Marubeni Research Institute, explained the current situation and the future of China. He said, "China's GDP growth will not drop down to the 7% level. For national economic stability, real GDP growth will hover around the 10 % level as its national policy." He pointed out that prevention of environmental pollution would be a problem to be solved for that.
As a special lecture, Mr. Takeshi Matsuo, Director for Textile and Clothing of the Textile Division in the Manufacturing Industries Bureau in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, spoke on current trends in textile policy; " textile industries around the world including Japan and China have become increasingly globalized, which will promote responses for reorganization and optimization through globalization. It is expected that especially the Japanese textile industry will be scaled down because of a falling birthrate which will drastically change the market structure. (On the day after the lecture, the merger proposal between Daimaru Inc. and Matsuzakaya Holdings Co., was revealed.) Following the shrinkage of the Japanese market, active efforts for exporting will be required for Japanese distributors and promoting global standardization of testing standards for textile products will become an important task as well. What the end user is looking for is technology to answer his needs. Another thing is establishing environment-conscious technology. From these two perspectives, ATTS activities have an important significance."
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