World textile fiber demand was 89.8 million tons in 2015 and is expected to grow to 93.7 million tons in 2016. Global demand for textile fibers is driven by population growth and by economic activity resulting in increasing wealth, particularly in emerging economies. While this overall trend is consistent across most major fibers, there are substantial disparities in the demand patterns of natu...

A fibrous material is characterized by its fineness, flexibility and high length/fineness ratio it used to reduce noise in indoor rooms due their porous structure. The aim of this work focused on investigating the structure two different fibers (acrylic polyester) from analysis macrostructural parameters, such as length cross-section (solid or hollow). Furthermore, degree influence these parame...

Bio-based materials and new dyeing technologies have gained growing interest, as companies actively want to enhance their products sustainability remove environmental hazardous pollutants. This article describes for the first time waterless studies using supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) a natural anthraquinone dye emodin polylactide (PLA) polyester (PET) fabric colouration. The colour of d...

Paper and board are widely used as food packaging materials, mainly for disposable products. As public interest in conservation of natural resources has accelerated in the past several years, the use of recycled paper and board has increased. Recycled fiber materials can be used in certain limits as food contact materials. The safety of recycled fiber-based materials for food contact applicatio...

The present study investigated preferences and perceived differences between virgin recycled polyester sports t-shirts, while monitoring participants’ use care behaviour during real-life wear. A two-month-long wear trial was conducted with 244 participants who were asked to report their t-shirt preferences, as well via an online survey. T-shirts nearly identical textile parameters used for the ...

This paper provides experimental results to investigate the mechanical properties of sustainable strain-hardening cement composite (2SHCC) for infrastructures after freeze-thaw actions. To improve the sustainability of SHCC materials in this study, high energy-consumptive components-silica sand, cement, and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fibers-in the conventional SHCC materials are partially replaced...

Kinetic modeling of enzymolysis of pulp fiber waste pretreated by a wet oxidation process was studied. First, a wet oxidation pretreatment of fiber waste was carried out. It was found that hemicellulose were removed efficiently, yielding material with a pentosan content of 4% (based on the o.d. biomass). A statistical kinetic model was developed based on the experimental results of the enzymati...