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Textile Testing and Development Centre

Textile Testing and Development Centre, the first ever Public Private Partnership venture of Textiles Committee, Ministry of Textiles, Govt of India and Madura Spinners Association Trust formed by various Textile and Clothing Associations of Madurai, is functioning for the past two and half years.

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Vortex 861: Blending Ecology & Fashion with Function
Vortex 861: Blending Ecology & Fashion with Function

The spinning machine, Vortex 861 of Muratec Machinery, Japan has been spinning many a success story since its launch. It has been producing successfully functional and fashionable yarn with excellent value.

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Vapo 2003: Steam agers for all ages
Vapo 2003: Steam agers for all ages

Arioli’s new Vapo 2003 steam agers has many special features to increase productivity, and obtain excellent performances on finished products.

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Spinning & Weaving
Optimisation of comber draft
Optimisation of comber draft

Keeping high table tension draft in combers results in increase in production rate and 2.49% improvement in length of fibre as well as 1.75% improvements in 5% AFIS at same noil, infer S G Kulkarni, Badbade Pramod R, Kalas Nitin V and Patil Vinod S.

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Modern developments in weaving
Modern developments in weaving

New developments in weaving have taken place in such a direction, which ensures reduced time, energy and cost involved. Heavy mechanical parts are now being replaced with electronic or microprocessor controlled alternatives.

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Garments, Fashion & Retail
Indian garments: Some writings on the wall
Indian garments: Some writings on the wall

Inflation, hardening Indian rupee, retail boom & so on; the Indian garment industry is in a ferment of changes. Do these augur well or warn impending ills? M K Panthaki analyses some aspects.

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Fabric drape & its measurement
Fabric drape & its measurement

The drape of fabric is a very important property to be analysed before selecting a fabric for garment Production, says S V Bhalerao, who discusses the development of drape measuring instruments and issues related to it.

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Nonwovens & Technical Textiles
Textile materials in implantable medical surgeries
Textile materials in implantable medical surgeries

There is vast scope in the application of textile materials for the replacement of tissue, nerve guideline, arteries, and bones, say D Somasundaram and V K Kothari, who discuss the issue of textile materials in implantable medical applications.

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Technical textiles drive German regions growth
Technical textiles drive German regions growth

The German textile industry is changing. The ensuing transition is reflected in the textile region Neckar-Alb, too, which traditionally is seen among the most important in Europe.

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General
Scope & limitations of RFID
Scope & limitations of RFID

Though the RFID cannot completely replace the barcode technology due to its higher cost, the scope for accuracy, speed and the return on investment is high in RFID system, affirm Rajkishore Nayak, K N Chatterjee, Tanuj Gupta and Asimananda Khandual.

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Green Waves on the Move
Quite recently, a number of big-name fashion and outdoor brands and retailers globally have signed up to the Greenpeace Detox campaign, pledging to eliminate all hazardous chemicals throughout their global supply chains by 2020. Detox was launched in 2011 to expose the direct links between...
Latest weaving technologies and accessories
Textiles are a part and parcel of every culture that has lived in the past and that will be in the future. It was used as means of clothing in the past but today' scenario is nowhere similar to that used to be. Nowadays textiles are being used everywhere, right from the normal clothing,...
Airjet spinning: Effect of blending on yarn quality
The increase in production of man-made fibres in past few decades can be attributed to two factors. First, the production of natural cotton, the major natural fibre has not significantly increased. Secondly, the man-made fibres have many superior properties such as uniformity in length, strength, freedom from foreign impurities. In addition...
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