Color Trends in Household Textiles, 1994-1995.

Ciba Geigy's 'Color Trend Kaleidoscope,' recently published in Switzerland, forecasts color trends for the 1994-1995 European home furnishings and household textiles market. The report specifies three design concepts: 'security,' defined as an opulent, baroque style characterized by warm, strong colors and patterns inspired by nature; 'ur..

Massachusetts Machinery Manufacturer Crepes Roll Goods.

Micrex Corporation of Walpole, Massachusetts, was founded in the early 1960s by Richard R. Walton. Walton is the inventor of the Micrex Microcreper, a converting machine that imparts softness, bulk, and elasticity ot nonwoven fabric and paper roll goods. The Microcreper crepes 76 inch wide fabric in an infinitesimally small manner, produc..

Continuous Convection Air Conveyor Dryers.

Continuous conveyor dryers are designed to gently handle continuous tow, cut stapel, or polymer, and thermally process the product for commercial use. Production rate, moisture content, presence of solvents, denier, incoming and exiting temperature, conditioning requirements, and material handling characteristics are improtant drying para..

Smart - Tubular Knit Dryer.

Smart's tubular knit drying machine features shrinkage stability, ease of operation and maintenance, and competitive pricing. The design of the dryer creates individual drying zones. Each zone contains a burner, jet tubes, two exhaust outlets, and two circulation fans. The fabric travels on a 14 gage flat wire stainless steel conveyor bel..

Fleissner High Tech Through-Air Dryer.

Fleissner offers a range of high performance through-air drying machines. These machines feature high production speeds of up to 2,200 meters per minute with low production costs, high product quality. Fleissner throuth-air dryers are available in standard frum diameters of 1,200, 1,900, 2,600, 3,000, 3,650, 4,200, 4,800, and 5,400 millim..

Continuous Machine for Drying Rope Fabrics.

The Italian textile machinery manufacturer Biancalani recently introduced the Rotos, a continuous drying machine or woven and knit fabrics in rope form. Special rollers pull the wet fabric into a perforated drum made of stainless steel. A hot air stream permanently blows through the perforated drum and is uniformly distrubuted over the fa..

Continuous Decating Machine.

Johannes Menschner Maschinenfabrik recently introduced its Superfinish GFP-2 continuous decating machine. Based on the design of its Contidec Superfinish 2 (introduced in 1989), Menschner's Superfinish GFP-2 facilitates closed circuit decating under controlled humidity. Depending on the amount of fabric comprssion expecte during the evapo..

Recycling waste polymers

A multiple extruder system, based on cascade extrusion which has mulitple extruders operating sequentially, is being developed by Davis-Standard from Pawcatudk, Connecticut, This US company is a world supplier of extrusion systems suitable for handling polymer waste. The feed uses othe Ram-Stuffer, which has been designed to cope with a d..

Pollution: understanding the problems for a better solution

The improtance given to environmental problems in the textile industry has spurred a study to identify possible solutions to polltion problems, starting with water pollution. The study will be focused o criticla sectors such as users of large volumes of water or which cause a great deal of water pollution. Textiles often have specific cha..

Enhanced uptake of CI Direct Red 79 by cotton in the presence of certain amino acids

Pretreatment of cotton fibres with solutions of alanine, valine, -phenylalanine or histidine in aqueous acetic acid increases the rate of dyeing with CI Direct Red 79 and improves the wet-fastness properties of the dyed cotton.