What your microwave oven did for your kitchen, radio-frequency drying can do for your process. Radio-f requency (RF) drying is increasing in popularity in the textile industry because it is fast, effective, and economical. This bulletin will review the benefits of using RF to dry yarn packages. RF dryers can also dry most other textile products, including loose stock, hanks, muffs, cones, tops,...

The study was investigated the decolorization potentials of certan selected microbial species (bacterial) to an actual textile dyeing industry effluent. All the microbes tested namely (bacterial) Bacillus sp, pseudomonas sp, Acineto bacter, Legionella and Staphylococcus (bacterial) showed greater potential in decolorizing the dye effluent. Bacterial decolorization of textile effluents were crit...

Textile industry is one of the main sources of revenue generating industry. The price of fabrics is severely affected by the defects of fabrics that represent a major threat to the textile industry. In manual inspection a very small percentage of defects are detected with highly trained, experienced inspectors. An automatic defect detection system can increase the defect detection percentage. I...

1.1 Economical, social, environmental, and industrial contexts A significant added value of textiles is sensory in nature. During garment handling in a shop, the customer engages a selection process that involves touching and trying on clothing. A multifaceted multi-sensory, emotional and psychological experience occurs. A decision is made and motivations are based on anticipated reality of pre...

In this paper, the sustainable competitiveness of the Hong Kong Fashion industry (textile and clothing industry) in the new economy is investigated through a comparison study and model simulation. We find that the competitiveness of Hong Kong will decrease without intensive investment to develop key knowledge-based core competencies in facing intensive competition from developing and developed ...

Textiles is one the nation’s oldest industries, dating back to be beginning of the American industrial revolution in the 1790s. Despite perceptions of the decline of U.S. textile manufacturing in the face of offshore competition, the industry remains one of the largest, most diverse, and dynamic segments of the U.S. manufacturing sector. This manual represents a comprehensive history of the U.S...

One of the important elements that have been playing a significant role in today’s global business operations is culture. An important dimension of cultural analysis has been added to its discussion of transferability of JIT/TQM to other countries ever since the Japanese management techniques, JIT and TQM, became popular throughout the world. This paper reviews the transferability of these popu...

Up to now the exposures to hair and skin derivatives of animals have not yet been the subject of systematic studies. The observation of a clinical case has provided the opportunity for a review of the literature. The inpatient was a 49-year-old man, a carder in a textile factory, exposed to angora wool. He noticed the appearance of dyspnea during working hours. There was no eosinophilia in bloo...

The objective was to examine whether the observed excess mortality from anaemia in textile and clothing workers was associated with any specific anaemia type or occupational activity. The design was a death certificate based case-control study of textile and clothing workers who died in England and Wales in the years surrounding the decennial censuses of 1961, 1971, and 1981. The main outcome m...