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 Read the article here... AKC Note: Wood Mackenzie is a leading supplier of commercial information for the natural resources sector and the PCI Group expertise will be an excellent complement to the Wood Mackenzie portfolio of services to customers. Wood Mackenzie is an Edinburgh, Scotland based company with extensive presence in global markets. They became part [...]

Read the article here... AKC Note: It is interesting that the press release talks of PLA, specialty polyesters and recycled polyester being part of the expansion. This announcement comes after both the other major U.S. polyester staple producers (DAK and Na Ya) announced expansions and there is also a project to restart an existing closed polyester [...]

Read article here... AKC Note: The negotiators met last week in Atlanta with ministers arriving on Wednesday with an expectation that it would be resolved before the weekend. Negotiations were extended over the weekend and it appears that the countries have agreed today.   There are many articles covering this agreement and I use the above [...]

A second announcement today of overseas investment in the U.S. textile industry with the German family owned nonwovens company Sandler announcing their first overseas plant after many years of servicing overseas customers from Bavaria.    Read article here... AKC Note: Congratulations to Sandler who will now have a plant "Born in the U.S.A."!! Alasdair Carmichael Carmichael [...]

Read the article here... AKC Note: The investment is being made in the automotive fabric interior sector where there is substantial change taking place as some of the major global suppliers have announced they are pulling away from the business. July 2015: Johnson Controls Inc (JCI) combined its automotive interiors business with Yanfeng, a Chinese producer [...]

Read article here... AKC Note: We believe this is the 8th new spinning plant announced in the U.S.A. in the last 2.5 years together with a number of other investments in expansions at existing facilities. All the new plants are being built by non U.S.A. owned companies. Most of these plants will focus on cotton spinning [...]

Read article here...  AKC Note: The equipment appears to be flexible so that it can run either polyester or nylon, but the announcement confirms that the polyester BCF will include the use of rPET feed. The plant is to start up later this year, the machinery having been ordered some time ago. Shaw receives its rPET [...]

 Read article here... AKC Note: The site was originally built by Wellman Inc., but purchased by DAK in 2011. The original plan was for 2 lines of PET resin plus 1 line of staple fiber. The staple line was never run in full commercial production as Wellman exited the staple business. During DAK's ownership all 3 [...]

Read article here...   AKC Note: PGI is the largest nonwovens producer in the world; they are based in Charlotte and have plants in 14 countries. They changed their name to Avintiv in June 2015. Currently owned by Blackstone Group, the largest private equity firm, they are now being bought by Berry Plastics of Indiana for [...]

Read article here...      AKC Note: Cabot specializes in durable, but comfortable socks for outdoor, military and workwear use. Wool appears to be the main fiber, but Invista's Coolmax� brand of polyester is also used. Alasdair Carmichael Carmichael International PO Box 3444 Spartanburg SC 29304 T: 864 583 6868  C:864 542 4481       [...]