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Technical21 Jul 2014Options expanding in fibre surface modification
Review27 Jun 2014Dr Ian Holme reports on Fire Retardant Technologies 2014, Preston, UK
Technical10 Feb 2014The object of fibre, yarn and fabric pretreatments is to prepare the material for subsequent coloration and finishing treatments. This is accomplished by removing the natural, acquired and applied substances which are mainly located at the fibre surface.
Technical13 Dec 2013The industrialisation of the textile industry was hastened by the mechanical revolutions in spinning and weaving machinery that greatly increased woven-fabric production in the UK by the 1830s. The response of textile wet processing firms was to move away from handling individual fabric lengths to continuous wet processing of fabric in rope form.
