A Colorful Future.

Altamira Colour Limited was founded in 1991 at a cost of 3.5 million pounds sterling. Today, the Scotland vbsed company employs 50 workers at its 28,000 wquare foot plant in Kilwinning. Altamira dyes and finishes knit and woven fabrics, receiving orders from fabric manufacturers throughout the United kingdom. Possessing some of the most s..

Dyeing and Finishing.

A directroy lists dyers and finishers in the United Kingdom. The directory cmprises four sections covering yarns, apparel fabrics, and footwear. Entries in each section are arranged in alphabetical order. Each entry includes the company name, the address, telephone number and fax number, and a short descriptio of company activities and pr..

Degradation of Either Filament Weft or Cotton Warp Yarns in Union Fabrics During Wet Processing - Four Case Studies.

When fabrics with cotton warp and polyester filament weft yarns ar wet processed under normal conditions, mills are often faced with the problem of warp or weft yarn degradation. Four Indian case studies examine the damage to bleached polyester filament, bleached cotton warp, and dyed cotton warp yarns. Polyester fibers ae attected by hig..

Ultrasonic Drying of Textile Fabrics.

Drying speeds, especially at low temperatures, can be increased significantly by the supplementary use of ultrasonic dryers. Electroacoustic investigations and flow measurements determined the operating behavior of experimental ultrasound generators. W. Mathis AG of Zurich, Switzerland built and experimental drying range with an auxiliary..

Chemical Processing of Textile Materias on Solar Energy Based Machine Using Photovaltaic Cell.

A degumming and dyeing machine uses a solar thermal plate collector system to ganerate electricity. Four tubular batteries recharge during times of bright sunlight and ensure machine operation on cloudy days. The machine achieves silk degumming temperatures of between 90 and 93 degrees centigrade and degumming percentage of 22.4 percent. ..

New Generation of Dyeing Equipment.

Fong's Textile Machinery Company recently introduced the MK8 Double Ropesoft high temperature dyeing machine after five years of laboratory development and one year of mill testing. According to information proveded by Batson Yarn and Fabrics Machinery, Fong's representatives in the United States, the MK8 combines high capacity-up to 350 ..

High Tech Scholl Facility to Aid in Development of New dyeing Products.

In December 1993, Scholl inaugurated a 53,000 square foot facility housing its headquarters and a machinery production plant. The additional space and equipment will enable Scholl to speed up its development of new products. The plant is designed to produce 100 dyeing or bleaching machines annually. Production in the first year should exc..

Dyers and Finishers Weather Recession Better than Most.

The British textile finishing industry enjoyed healthy growth during the first six months of 1993. Output in the finishing sector for the second quarter of 1993 increased more than 5 percent compared with the same quarter of 1992. Finishing output is increasing faster in the United Kingdom than in any other European Union (EU) country, bu..

Purification and recovery of waste water from dyeing and printing mills

Details are given of a biological method for treating dyeing/printing effluents from a mill which processed silk ties. Ammonia and organic nitrogen are totally eliminated. Most dyes are eliminated and limited quantities of totally harmless sludge are produced. The waste water is recycled.

Photocatalytic decolorization of wastewater dyes

The authors discuss photocatalytic decolorization of municipal effluent contaminated wiht textile dyes. The photocatalyst is Degussa titanium dioxide and proves to be effective in dye degrdation when irradiated with ultraviolet light in the presence of air. As the decolorization rate is weakly dependent on temperature, no significant loss..