FIBER WORLD: Sustainable Alternative Plant Fibers for Textiles
Apr 15, 2021 · Orange fiber is created from citrus juice by-products that would otherwise be thrown away. In Italy alone, production of waste materials from orange peels exceeds 700,000 tons per year. Orange Fiber®, a 100-percent citrus textile manufactured by Italy-based Orange Fiber S.r.l., is lightweight, soft and silky.
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What’s Now And Next In Sustainable Textiles? | Textile World
Jul 27, 2023 · The World Bank estimates that almost 20 percent of global industrial water pollution comes from the textile industry. Water is used in scouring, bleaching, mercerizing, sizing and desizing, and also as a solvent for dyes and chemicals. These processes generate wastewater, which requires cleaning. Textile manufacturers now can invest in ...
Dyeing & Finishing Technology Update - Textile World
Sep 30, 2020 · Sweden-based imogo AB is another newcomer to the dyeing industry with its Dye-Max spray dyeing technology. Imogo partnered with ACG Kinna, Sweden, to build the first Dye-Max line, and the technology made its debut at ITMA 2019. Imogo reports the Dye-Max reduces the use of fresh water, wastewater, energy and chemicals by as much as 90 percent compared to conventional jet-dyeing systems.
Automated Cutting & Sewing Developments - Textile World
Mar 26, 2020 · The labor dependent nature of cutting and sewing tasks make them expensive. Fabric cost and cut-and-sew labor are the two largest expenses in apparel manufacturing 2.Raw materials represent 50 to 70 percent of the total product cost 3, but compromises in quality and quantity of fabric directly influences the quality of a final product.Instead, the viable solution to reduce the fabric cost is ...
2021 State Of The U.S. Textile Industry | Textile World
Apr 15, 2021 · Here are a few key industry facts: In 2020, the value of U.S. man-made fiber, textile and apparel shipments totaled and estimated $64.4 billion. While output was down for all of 2020 versus 2019, the last several months of 2020 saw an upward trend as shipments gradually recovered from a low in April (Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis).
SPINNING FOCUS: Spinning Innovations Continue - Textile World
Apr 15, 2021 · In the United States, the value of the spinning machine market in 2020 is estimated at $1.4 billion. Sustainability and circularity concepts are a new focus for the spinning industry as textile manufacturers look for creative ways to save textile waste from landfills. The desire to use recycled fiber in yarns is increasing and technologies need ...
Fiber-to-Fiber Textile Recycling | Textile World
Sep 29, 2023 · Some critical challenges for effective fiber-to-fiber recycling include garment disassembly and fiber identification. As apparel and other textile products are commonly made of multiple components from various materials, a frequently identified challenge is the use of mixed materials within the products. These can include various fasteners and ...
Weaving Machine Developments - Textile World
Oct 14, 2021 · The Itematech A95002. The star of the weaving room continues to advance, offering added value and higher quality to finished products. TW Special Report. E ven though, in most cases, the weaving process is the same as it ever was — create a shed, insert the filling and beat up the pick — today’s weaving machines are highly technical instruments featuring numerous innovations that have ...
FIBER WORLD: Sustainability In Fiber Manufacturing
May 19, 2021 · Innovation, collaboration and a carbon-footprint-focus abound in the polymer and fiber industries. TW Special Report. The topic of sustainability has grown to a point that virtually every sector of manufacturing has sustainability initiatives. There is no shortage of headlines on the subject in Textile World, fiber and polymer companies included.