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Chinese to slash printing and dyeing facilities
Zhejiang - Shaoxing County, renowned as a major textile hub in Eastern China, is to reduce its annual textile printingand dyeing capacity by 710 million metres before mid-September, as part of awider plan to reduce energy usage and cut emissions.
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Fresh concerns about nano-silver
DURHAM, NC - A new study has found that silver nanoparticles, which are commonly used to produce consumer products such as anti-microbial textiles, can negatively impact plant life and even kill soil microbes.
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World Bank backs NRDC Bangladesh dyehouse project
DHAKA - The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has received backing from the World Bank for a new project in Bangladesh aimed at slashing water pollution and unnecessary waste from textile dye houses.
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China to shut textile mills and considers new eco tax
The Chinese government has ordered the closure of over 2,000 companies in 18 different industries – including the dyeing and finishing sector – as the country mulls a new environmental tax on manufacturing to crack down on highly polluting industries.
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OECD looks at antimicrobial textile testing
LONDON - The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is defining protocols for studying the effectiveness of antimicrobial treated textiles, which aim to provide a tiered approach to testing fabrics.
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Comment: Textile RSL testing risks
LEEDS – Lowering the frequency of textile testing can be a very risky strategy for leading brands and retailers – yet it is not uncommon. With the exception of testing labs and the enlightened few who strive to continuously improve their products and processes everyone hates testing textiles.
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Yeh Group aims for waterless dyeing
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN – Bangkok-based polyester textile producer The Yeh Group has revealed plans to become the first textile mill to implement a commercial scale supercritical fluid carbon dioxide process from DyeCoo Textile Systems for dyeing polyester fabrics.
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Eco-dress at London Science Museum
LONDON – A new exhibition on sustainable fashion at the Science Museum in London features a dress made from PLA textiles which is dyed during the fibre production process with innovative colourless molecules derived from natural resources
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Silica and clay to benefit polyester dyeing?
Scientists from the middle east claim to have used nano-particles derived from clay and silica minerals to produce a more economical and eco-friendly technique for dyeing polyester fibres.
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LCA boost for enzymatic bleaching technology
Huntsman TextileEffects and Genencor have said that the results of a Life Cycle Assessment onone of its latest bleaching systems show a significant savings in terms of bothfreshwater and CO2 emissions.
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