Fully Automated Production Concept.

Manmade fiber producers are increasingly automating their lines. In response to this trend, Barmag exgibited several lines of automated textile machines used in filament yarn processing, which could be linked to form a fully automated production facility. Central to this system is the accurate and reliable tracking of each yarn package fr..

New Material Generation.

An important advantage of microfibers is their extreme fineness. More single filaments can be bundled within a single strand of yarn, producing yarns that are softer, lighter, and more flexible. The microporous character and density of microfiber fabrics make them suited for high performance sportswear. In Europe, over 75 percent of all m..

Tencel Brings Comfort and Class to the Garment Industry.

In Japan, the supply of Tencel products cannot keep pace with demand. The popularity of Tencel lies in its environmentally friendly processing method and the soft, comfortable apparel in which it is used. Courtaulds pioneered the development of an environmentally friendly production process for the manufacture of rayon fibers. Its efforts..

Lenzing Sees Big Global Growth for Rayon in Next Decade.

According to Franz Kogler, director of sales and world marketing for Lenzing, the largest viscose fibers producer in the world, international demand for textile fibers should increase by 25 percent during the next ten years. Although cotton will remain the most important textile fiber in the world, limited increases in cotton production m..

1993 -- A Year in Perspective.

In 1993, United States mill consumption of manufactured fibers increased 5 percent compared with a 3 percent increase in the mill consumption of cotton and a 4 percent increase in the mill consumption of wool. Nylon fiber consumption increased 8 percent and polyester fiber consumption increased 5 percent. Cotton decreased its market share..

South Korea Becomes Largest Market for United States Cotton.

Asian countries pruchased 73 percent of all United States cotton exports in 1992. Japan's import total of United States cotton decreased 20 percent in 1992, while Taiwan's import total increased 23 percent, Hong Kong's increased 35 percent, and South Korea's increased 9 percent. south Korea imported a total of 246,000 tons of cotton from ..

Processing Of Polyester Blends -- Problems And Remedies. Part 2

Part One of this series of articles discussed the effects of fiber manufacturing, fiber structure, spinning texturing, singeing, heat setting, deszing scouring, bleaching, and oligomers on the dyeing of polyester. Part Two examines the dyeing of polyester/wool and polyester/cellulosic blends. Scouring, creabbing, heat setting, dyeing proc..

Safe Handling.

Aquafilm Limted. based in the United Kingdom, recently introuced a water soluble polyvinyl alcohol film bag to eliminate the handing of potentially hazardous dyes and pigments. The bags contain premeasured dye formulations and dissolve completely after they are added to the bath, releasing the dye. The bags are nontoxic, fully biodegradab..

MONITORING TEMPERATURE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY IN A TESTING LABORATORY.

Moisture significantly affects test results, especially measurements of tensile strengh in cotton testing laboratories. Online realtive humidity and temperaure in struments continuously monitored a test labroatroy for three months. the data showed that strategically placed sensors can monitor avaege temperature and relative humidity condi..

DISCOUNTS FOR BARK, COLOR, AND TRASH IN COTTON -- EVIDENCE FROM THE EXAS-OKLAHOMA MARKET.

The cotton grading system in the United States is undergoing major chagnes. These changes consist of separating the grade code into tis components of trash and color and identifying other foreign matter, such as bark, grass, and oil. The Commodity Credit Corporation Loan Rates will ncorporate these changes before the 1993 crop is marketed..