- To ensure that fabric is well prepared for dyeing and further processing, all size must be removed adequately and uniformly.

- A New thermal insulation printing technique, which depends on obtaining various artistic colour tones using only one silk screen, in printing cotton and cotton/polyester fabrics.

- Regular disperse dye particles are too big to diffuse in a hydrophobic substrate containing no functional groups such as polyester, but a nanoporticle size disperse dye treated with ultrasound can be printed on polyester fabrics without the addition of a carrier.

- Conventional surfactants can be replaced with alternatives, which ensure 80 - 90% biodegradability after 24 hours, generate a lower COD, have a high dispersing power and very low foaming power.

- The bending length and crease recovery angle, which are measures of softness, were found better in case of dyed samples treated with Silicone Nano Emulsion Softener than Silicone Conventional Emulsion Softener and untreated.

- The sustainability aspects, like water and energy saving are key concerns of the textile industry and novel technologies, in turn, show the ways to achieve such savings.

- The laser-treated roller subjected to the normal working conditions on textile machine runs with almost concentric for longer life with good wear resistance by which the yarn quality can be improved.

- Though Lyocell fibres have some key characteristics over other cellulosic fibres such as high dry and wet tenacity, and high wet modulus, these also have a few disadvantageous formation of fibrillation under wet condition.

- Cotton/Viscose blend is unique in many ways and even easy to handle from the wet processing angle, and this blended fabric also brings down production cost by 15 - 20% compared to 100% cotton woven fabric apart from giving sharp and clear print.

- Low temperature air plasma can be used as an alternative to wet chemical fabric treatments, as a clean economic technology, to acquire wool/polyester blended fabrics the desired characteristics with the least pollution and energy.

- The colour strength of inkjet printing with pigment inks on pretreated fabrics is much greater than that on untreated fabrics and also that treatment of fabrics with a viscous binder increases the colour strength of prints

- During clearing and winding the yarn for warping, weaving or knitting it has been found that there is deterioration of certain yarn characteristics like strength, elongation, hairiness etc, and the process parameters thus have substantial influence on the final properties of the yarn.

- The elliptic nature of yarn cross-sections and the interaction between the levels of twists and eccentricity play an important role in characterising the surface properties of the fabrics.

- Dry finishing, which can create many effects on denim fabric, is capable of stimulating the customers to buy, thereby increasing the market potential of the denim market.

- The supercritical CO2 process involves the use of less energy than conventional processes, resulting in a potential of up to 50% lower operating costs.

- In spun yarn applications, microdenier fibres can be used to enhance the quality and process performance of the yarn, and the functional and aesthetic properties of the fabrics made from these yarns.

- A novel electrochemical dyeing process results in product savings, less chemicals with special safety requirements, and unsurpassed environmental compatibility. Besides, the new process also facilitates dye bath monitoring in real time, ensuring high quality of the dyed fabric.

- A Book on Chemical Processing of Textile Material has been written by Mr Jitendra Kumar, who is also the author of well-known book on “Pollution Control and Human Resource Management in Textile Industries”.

- Worldwide textile printing market

- Alkylphenol ethoxylates (APE), including nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEO) and nonylphenols (NP), are used as surfactants in textile production processes, in detergents, industrial cleaners, dispersant or wetting agents, and other industrial chemical categories. Recent independent studies have found residual nonylphenol ethoxylates in environmental samples and textile products from China.