Textile industry has been influenced by the globalization process more than any industry in the world. Given that a high volume of the country's industry is at disposal of small and medium industries it seems that paying attention to textile industries and improving their status could be a useful strategy for economic development of the country. Objective of the present paper is to evaluate tex...

introduction: cleaner productions in textile industry is achieved by reducing water and chemicals’ consumption, saving energy, reducing production of air pollution and solid wastes, reducing toxicity and noise pollution through many solutions. the purpose of the present research was to apply strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (swot) and quality systems planning matrix (qspm) techniqu...

The presence of dyes in wastewater effluent of textile industry is well documented. In contrast, the endocrine disrupting effects of these dyes and wastewater effluent have been poorly investigated. Herein, we studied twenty-three commercial dyes, usually used in the textile industry, and extracts of blue jean textile wastewater samples were evaluated for their agonistic and antagonistic estrog...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine supplier selection among smalland medium-sized firms in the US textile and apparel industry. For smalland medium-sized firms, one powerful method of improving the firm’s competitiveness in the dynamic business environment is through strategic approach of supplier selection, which emphasizes supplier’s contributions to the total product...

INTRODUCTION: Textile industry (and especially its part focused on the dyeing process) belongs among important sources of contamination responsible for the continuous pollution of the environment. The production of textile industry, as well as the volume of waste water containing processed textile dyes, steadily increases. The release of dyes into the environment constitutes only a small propor...

Textile industry is one of the biggest industries of the world. Workers engaged in the textile industries around the world are exposed to different sets of chemicals including dyes, solvents, finishing chemicals and metals including Cu, Cr, Ni etc. Many of these chemicals including dyes have been identified as carcinogenic to humans. The exposure of the workers to such carcinogenic chemicals re...

This paper examines the extents and determinants of intra-industry textile and clothing trade for the OECD countries. Trade overlap is used as the measurement of intra-industry trade (IIT). The general trend of intra-OECD trade and the extents of IIT for textile and clothing trade in year 2000 were examined. Hypotheses relating to 5 country-specific variables tested showed strong significance r...

Labour productivity has been continuously increasing since the days of spinningjenny to the modern day roto r frames. To visualize the spinning industry in the year 2000, the past and the present technologica l changes have been analyzed so as to assess their overall impact in terms of labour complement.. material handling, required operative skill and automation. The automation in textile indu...