Saturday, February 21, 2009

USTER® Technologies

A video released on the occasion of 50th anniversary of USTER® Statistics. Uster Technologies provides total quality management control and solutions for the textile industry with testing instruments, statistics and services for laboratory and spinning mills from fiber to fabric.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Textile Industry of China

An Aljazeera TV report on the textile industry of China

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Textiles of the Future

A Video on Smart and Intelligent Textiles

Sunday, February 15, 2009

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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Friday, February 13, 2009

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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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

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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Monday, February 9, 2009

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.

This is an older version of the software. Click here to get the newest version.