The textile manufacturing industry consists of a wide range of occupations including spinning, weaving, knitting, dyeing and finishing of natural and synthetic fibres to produce fabrics, yarns and carpets. The range of exposures in the industry includes textile related dusts, chemicals used in making synthetic textiles, sizing agents, oil mist, dyes, solvents, crease-resistance agents, flame re...

Textile manufacturing consumes a considerable amount of water in its manufacturing processes. The water is primarily utilized in the dyeing and finishing operations of the textile establishments. Considering both the volume generated and the effluent composition, the textile industry wastewater is rated as the most polluting among all industrial sectors. In this study a combined anaerobic-aerob...

Retting of flax was the first biotechnological application in textile processing. More than 2000 years ago, micro-organisms grown on flax were used to achieve partial decortication in the extraction of linen fibres from flax stems. Amylases were the only enzymes applied in textile processing until the 1980’s. These enzymes are still used to remove starch-based sizes from fabrics after weaving. ...

In this paper we show how we have applied, in a current project, mobile agent technology to an industrial process in the field of textile manufacturing. The project involves several companies, each of which is a Europe-wide representative of one of the key phases of the textile production process (e.g. spinning, weaving, dyeing, finishing and ready made clothing). The main contribution of this ...

ZHIYUAN YANG, YANJUN TANG , JUNHUA ZHANG Key Laboratory of Advanced Textile Materials and Manufacturing Technology, Ministry of Education, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, China State Key Lab of Pulp and Paper Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China Engineering Research Center for Eco-Dyeing & Finishing of Textiles, Ministry of Education, Zheji...

Within an EU-funded research project, 281 textile dye products in use at nine textile finishing companies from eight European countries were assessed for potential mutagenic properties. Most of the dyes belonged to the so-called existing substances. Data sources considered were data published in the literature, unpublished industrial data provided by dye producing companies, and laboratory test...

Irradiation processes have several commercial applications, in the coating of metals, plastics, and glass, in printing, wood finishing, film and plastic cross-linking, and in the fields of adhesive and electrical insulations. The advantages of this technology are well known. Radiation treatment on fabric and garments can add value in coloration, antifelting, printing, and coating. In this chapt...