Water and Energy Saving in Continuous Carpet Dyeing.

The main points of water and energy consumption on a continuous carpet dyeing range are prewashing, presteaming, botton dyeing, printing, dye application, steaming, washing, and drying. Dyring consumes the greatest amount of energy, followed in level of energy consumption by steaming, washing, prewashing, and presteaming. Energy for dryin..

How Quality Control Can Improve Productivity.

Despite the fact that quality control concepts are universally accepted as beneficial to productivity and proditability, relatively few textile mills throughout the world have integrated these concepts into their operations. TO integrated these concepts, it is optimal to have a quality control supervisor who reports directly to upper leve..

Quality Control in the Textile Industry.

In Aachen, Germany, the Research Institute for Rationalization na the Institute of Textile technology collaborated to develop quality control feedback circuits for the textile industry. Critical parameters were the structure and types of operations and the flow of information related to these operations. The research identified four diffe..

Explosive Demand for Cashmere Coats.

The extraordinarily bad weather the United States during this past winter led to explosive sales in coats. In luxury coats, cashmere and camel hair performed particularly well, followed by wool/angora blends and alpaca. Large inventories and low prices for cashmere fueled the sales. The most popular style was the ankle length coat in wide..

Drycleaning Machine and Its Care.

Proper maintenance of drycleaning machines is necessary to avoid unacceptably high consumption of solvents. A program of regular maintenance includes tasks performed after each load (checking main pump, button trap, and solvent distillation), tasks performed daily (change and clean dust bags, check the seal at rear of bearing, check solve..

Creating Reversible Fabrics on the Sewing Machine.

A review of home sewing techniques for gossamer scarves and other reversible fabrics focuses on techniques that use regular sewing thread and ordinary yarn. Most of the techmiques involve stitching the scarf on a sater soluble stabilizer that is dissolved away when the scarf is complete. By varying the type of stitching patten, yarn layou..

Folds in Fabric.

An important characteristic of layered apparel fabrics is 'turn of the cloth': when layered an dseamed fabrics are floded over, the outer layer must bigger than the inner one to completely cover it. For the home sewer, the most likely locations for turning troubles are collars, cuffs, and lapels. Several suggestions to compensate for turn..

Twist with a Tale.

A major problem in jeans manufacture is a defect known as twisted leg, which makes the jeans unwearable. Various factor contribute to twisted leg. First, the denim manufacturer may not have designed the fabric with optimal antiskew to prevent twisting. Second, the fabric geometry may be inconsistent across its width, particularly relative..

Dicey Fabrics - Growth Looms Large.

Dicey Fabrics has added twice as many looms and it doubled sales to $30 million dring the past six years. President and CEO Henry Niesler attribures company growth to diversification. Dicey historically concentrated on the production of printed upholstery fabrics, but in recent years, the company has emphasized jacquard, dobby, and knit f..

Biggest Hopes on Durable Press Garments.

Sluggish domestic demand for cotton has forced Japanese apparel manufacturers to scale down their operations to compete with increasingly competitive companies from Asian countries. To remain competitive, Japanese manufacturers have shifted rom being quantity conscious to being quality conscious. Major developments include the use of proc..