With bi-functional reactive dyes, the dyeing cycle for soybean fibre is the most commercially viable, and with this dyeing cycle, the mechanical, wash fastness and light fastness properties of soybean fibre are also satisfactory.

Significant financial saving and environmental improvements can be made by relatively low-cost and straightforward interventions in the textile industry, and this improves the quality of products and minimises the cost of production.

In scope of the requirement for several ecological, eco-labelling systems for transparency in the Textile Supply Chain, it has been shown in practice that in many cases the searching of producers or business units backwards is difficult or impossible, say the authors, who present a new solution of documentation of standards and certifications.

Under normal trading conditions, a high productivity mill manufacturing 40s yarn can break-even at about 84% spindle utilisation, and the break-even utilisation ranges from 79% in 100s to 85% in 20s counts.

In the global medical textile market, biopolymers such as chitin, chitosan, alginate, collagen and others have found invaluable applications.

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