The increasing demands for high quality fabric from overseas buyers and the local customers have helped weaving industries in improving the fabric quality to a great extent. The present scenario puts in a lot of pressure on the technologist to select the optimum process parameters and machine parameters,

Total Testing is USTER's formula for building trust between spinners and their customers, the yarn users. It means that quality parameters are locked in at the start and checked at every process stage, using world-leading laboratory instruments

With an upsurge in the number of water parks and water sports, the need to keep in line with the latest in swimwear has become all the more necessary, say M G Iswariya, G Janani, K Gopinath, G Ramakrishnan and J Srinivasan, who stress the need for joint efforts

Formaldehyde related requirements are becoming greater challenges for the textile industry all the time, and formaldehyde constitutes one of the classes of chemicals in textile production and processing which are taken into consideration while formulating eco-norms for the issuance of eco labels,

Sandwich composites are considered as essential structural materials in automobiles because of their high bending stiffness and lightweight, state M M Saad, E H Sherazy, O M Kobesy and Nermin M Aly, who reveal the type of resin and fabric structure that assists in reaching the highest flexural strength value in woven sandwich composites.

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