Textile Industry of China

An Aljazeera TV report on the textile industry of China

Textiles of the Future

A Video on Smart and Intelligent Textiles

Sourcing Strategies in Clothing Retail Firms: Product Complexity Versus Overseas Supply Chain

A paper by Simone Guercini & Andrea Runfola of Italy in which the duo tries to investigate the sourcing strategies of various retail firms like Marks & Spencer, H&M, Inditex, Gap, C&A.

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Emission Estimation Technique Manual for Textile and Clothing Industry

The purpose of all Emission Estimation Technique (EET) Manuals in this series is to assist Australian manufacturing, industrial and service facilities to report emissions of listed substances to the National Pollutant Inventory (NPI). This Manual describes the procedures and recommended approaches for estimating emissions from facilities engaged in textile and clothing product manufacture.

This Manual covers facilities engaged in spinning natural and man-made fibres into yarns and threads. These materials are then converted by weaving and knitting into fabrics. Finally, the fabrics, and in some cases the yarns and threads used to make them, are dyed and finished.

The primary focus of this Manual is on weaving and knitting operations, with a brief mention of the processes and pollutants from carpet manufacture.

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Requirements of Successful ERP Software For A Textile Dye-House Management

Abstract: ERP is a modern concept of any business solution that integrated all the process of a business’ functions including planning, production process, marketing, accounting and supply chain management. Selecting ERP software for a textile dye-house management is very important. As integrating all the functions of a dyeing industry are very complicated, success of ERP software depends upon the capability of simplifying interrelated functions and developing user-friendly interface of software manufacturer. This research study unveils the actual requirements of successful ERP software suitable for dye-house management and also analyzes the available software related to textile dye-house or textile manufacturing in the market.

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PANTONE® TEXTILE Color Chooser

The PANTONE Textile Color Chooser is designed to work with any design and illustration applications or any other application where you need to use the PANTONE Textile Colors. As a designer, stylist or CAD technician, you now have the ability to use PANTONE Textile Colors in a digital format for the accurate communication of color.

The PANTONE Textile Color Chooser (Version 1.0) contains two color palettes: (1) the PANTONE TEXTILE Color System(R) (TCS) - 1,701 colors specifically developed by Pantone for fashion conscious industries and (2) the PANTONE Textile New Colors - 56 New Colors that are part of the most recent range extension for the industry standard PANTONE TEXTILE Color System.

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Journal of Fibres and Textile

Journal of Fibres and Textile is issued every quarter of the year in english language by department of fibres and textile chemistry, Slovak University of Technology. Individual issues can be downloaded in Portable Document Format (*.PDF).

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