LANXESS (Germany) plans divestiture of Textile Processing Chemicals business by end of year

The chemical company LANXESS AG of Germany (H.O.: Leverkusen, Germany.) announced, at the company’s Annual Stockholders’ Meeting in Düsseldorf on May 31, plans to divest itself of its Textile Processing Chemicals business unit.

This business unit forms part of the Performance Chemicals segment (sales in 2005: EUR 1.98 billion) and currently employs about 380 people.

The restructuring of this unit over the past two years has been carried out successfully and it has made the business more competitive in the market.They are now looking for an investor to participate in the ongoing consolidation of the textile processing chemicals industry and take over the business unit’s solid market position.Dr. Axel Claus Heitmann, the CEO of LANXESS, said, “We will definitely complete the divestiture of this unit by the end of the year.”

Deep dyeing in Mexico
for polyester

A major dyeing firm in Mexico has taken notice of a deep dyeing agent for polyester introduced in “textileinfo.com,” HP of IS Co., Ltd., and placed an order with the maker for the Japanese deep dyeing agent.The firm has carried out various dyeing tests and decided on the best way to use the deep dyeing agent for polyester.

Chinese dyeing firms consume more water
3 times that of Germany

According to a joint article by three scholars from DonghuaUniversity in collected papers of Chinese dyeing technology published in 2005, the amount of water use in Chinese dyeing firms is more than that of Germany and Japan.It explains that it is 3 times as much as that of Germany.It advocates a promotion of environmental measures in China since Chinese dyeing firms use 300 tons of water per 1 ton of dyed material.As countermeasures, innovations in the dyeing and printing process are necessary.It pointed out the necessity of reviewing the finishing process by comprehensively evaluating equipment, water use and electricity costs.

Trial use of tamarind gum for printing polyester started in Shaoxing, China

According to printing thickener traders concerned who visited Shaoxing, China, a printing firm in Shaoxing, which includes Arab capital, is carrying out printing trial using thickener for polyester printing mixed with a combination of alginate soda and tamarind gum.The technical expert in this firm is a Japanese engineer with experience of giving technical guidance in Indonesia who seems to be using that experience of printing from those days for this trial.

N.I. Teijin Shoji establishes sewing plant for ladies’ formal wear in Vietnam

N.I. Teijin Shoji has established “YOTSUBA DRESS VIETNAM CO., LTD.” in cooperation with Yotsuba Dress. OEM in China has performed the central role in the ladies’ formal wear business of N.I. Teijin Shoji, but they have been considering securing a new OEM sewing location abroad to avoid risks from excess concentration in China in view of cost increases and difficulties of recruiting workers due to the rapid economic expansion of China. Setting up a new factory in Vietnam is part of this movement.

JSPS committee no. 120 to be held on June 23 at Hamamatsu
under theme of functional processing of fiber

The fiber polymer functional processing committee no. 120 of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science will hold the 107th lecture meeting under the theme “Recent topics on fiber functional processing” on June 23 (Fri.) at Actcity Hamamatsu. No admission charge (however, the cost of materials is ¥2000).Meeting outline is as follows.

Surface modification using plasma
Lecture meeting at Nagoya on June 29

Nagoya Textile Kenkyu Kai will hold its June lecture meeting at the audio-visual room in The Nagoya Municipal Industrial Research Institute (6-3-4-41, Atsuta-ku, Nagoya-shi) on June 29 (Thu.) from 13:30 to 16:40 under the following 2 themes.