May 27th, 2019
Raw material costs of polyester producers could now rebound, in line with a sharp decline of operating rates being planned at MEG plants. PTA producers could however accept lower prices after having sharply reduced their offers in the past two weeks. Raw material costs of polyester fiber producers were slightly rising this Monday in China. …
May 27th, 2019
Cotton prices have begun recovering in the seven past days after sharply falling in the previous weeks. Although long-term data are depressing market prices with a much larger global output expected in the next season, short-term factors should boost cotton to higher levels when US cotton supplies will have dried up in the coming weeks. …
May 24th, 2019
Wool prices have continued sharply falling this week in Australia. Sales of wool apparel have eventually fallen at retail, after prices have excessively risen in the past 12 months. The surge of wool prices has destroyed demand, not surprisingly, as reflected by latest US wool apparel import data. Wool prices have further fallen this week …
May 23rd, 2019
Cotton and polyester fiber rices have tumbled in China, with spinners being forced lowering their price offers for a very wide range of their products. In Pakistan by contrast, cotton yarn prices have been raised while they were eventually lowered in India. Polyester fiber and spun yarn markets could resist downward market trends in India …
May 23rd, 2019
Viscose prices have more slightly dropped than cotton and polyester prices in the past two weeks in China, having previously tumbled over a high level of excess inventories. Viscose yarn prices have been however lowered in the past days due to a lack of demand. Viscose staple fiber prices have continued dropping in the last …
May 22nd, 2019
Cotton fiber and yarn prices are staying very firm in Pakistan, due to a new fall of the rupee having limited the decline of import prices in local currency terms, our correspondent reports. Cotton, viscose and polyester prices are therefore kept rather unchanged, whatever their current decline on the Chinese market, and elsewhere. – From …
May 22nd, 2019
Yarn price offers have eventually been lowered in the past seven days in India, according to the latest results of our weekly survey in Punjab, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. Cotton fiber prices are no more declining however, and margins could return to lower levels at spinning mills. India’s cotton production is expected rebounding in the …
May 22nd, 2019
Polyester fiber prices have sharply fallen in the past seven days and may be expected further tumbling in the short term, due to a series of factors analyzed in our weekly report. With apparel exports plunging and clothing retail sales declining, demand for textiles and fibers is rapidly weakening, as a result. Polyester fiber prices …
May 21st, 2019
Yarn prices are now clearly falling in China, on both domestic and import markets. The sharp decline of cotton and polyester fiber prices in the last seven days has depressed demand, as buyers expect yarn prices will further decline in the coming period. Spun yarn prices have begun sharply falling in China, after fiber prices …
May 20th, 2019
Polyester chain prices have begun falling across the board in the last week in Asia, as PTA and PSF prices were eventually plunging on spot markets. Although margins have remained at high levels, operating rates could be lowered at PTA and polyester plants, as demand has sharply declined from downward textile producers expecting lower prices …
