Recycling in the Textile Industry.

The life cycle of a fabric product comprises production, distribution, end use, and disposal. The production process offers excellent opportunities for recycling. Fibrous waste produced during spinning, yarn and fibrous waste produced during knitting and weaving, and fibrous waste produced during knitting and weaving, and fabric wastes pr..

New Technology for the Production of Boards Made from Synthetic Scrap Materials, in Particular Scrap Carpet.

Significant quantities of carpets are disposed of annually by landfill, incineration, recycling, and downcycling. Landfill and incineration are becoming increasingly untenable because of costs and pollution. Recycling is problematic because of the difficulty involved in separating the carpet components. Downcycling, which recycles carpet ..

Recycling of Blends Containing Wool.

The major strategies for recycling textiles in Germany are waste conversion into energy and waste reclamation. Researchers used the example of wool/polyester production wastes to examine waste reclamation processes and the quality of the reclaimed waste. The samples included woven fabrics, stitch bonded fabrics, and laminated fabrics. The..

Environmental Issues Facing the Technical Textile Industry in Europe.

Environmental issues facing the European industrial fabrics industry involve production, use, and waste management. An increasing number of laws, regulations, directives, recommendations, and resolutions outline the environmental responsibility of these manufacturers. In the production sector, many fabric manufacturers are developing recy..

Choosing the Right Melt Filter for Contaminated Polymers

Continuous filtration systems used to process contaminated polymers include slide bolt/plate systems that have either angular or round slide bolts and systems based on screen disc filters with separate screens. Because of costs, the slide bolt/plate systems are most frequently used in recycling. When the level of contamination is very hig..

Textile Ecology Today

An overview of the environmental progress of the textile industry considers production processes, human ecology, and product disposal. A vast amount of legislation and many regulations define the acceptable amounts of polluting substances that can be introduced into the water and air during the production of fabrics and apparel. Meeting g..

Textile Ecology from the Consumer's Point of View

A recent survey by the Swiss Cotton Institute determined the influence of environmental concerns on the fabric and apparel buying habits of 1,700 consumers. The survey revealed that quality, style, ease of care, and price are much more important consumer concerns than environmentally responsible production. Only 5.8 percent of those quest..

Opportunities for Innvation: Pollution Prevention

A report examines the potential for pollution abatement in various United States manufacturing and finishing industries. Representative sectors include painting, metals coating and degreasing, light recycling, textile dyeing and printing, pulp and paper manufacturing, and chemical manufacturing. The report assesses the impact of stringent..

Inside the CIPSA denim operation

Mexico's largest denim producer, Compania Industrial de Parras SA (CIPSA), is profiled. The company has recently entered into an agreement with Cone Mills Corp of the USA, the world's largest denim manufacturer to establish a new mnaufacturing operation, creating almost 1500 new jobs. Current operations at parras (Mexico), equipment used,..

China strengthens the development of its manmade fibre and technical textiles industry

China's technical man-made fibres and textiles industry requires harmonized product and marketing development, especially for carbon, aramid, optical and medical fibres. The PVA fibres will mainly be used in the textiles. International cooperation and investment, and customer education and services must also be increased.