Many brands and retailers use Restricted Substance Lists (RSLs) to ensure the safety of their textile supply chain, as discussed in the feature in the June 2009 AATCC Review. But sometimes, especially in product categories like children-wear, brands want to offer their consumers a third-party guarantee of safety...

Asia's caustic soda producers need to seek for alternative export destinations within the region as traditional market of the west getting limited. There is a sharp decline of Asia's caustic soda spot prices by over 66% during last 6 months to $130-$160/dmt (dry metric ton)...

The study was done on the process development for printing on cotton fabric with terminalia chebula. Extracted natural dye was used for printing with different mordants (copper sulphate, ferrous sulphate, and stannous chloride)....

Thermomigration is a general term, used to describe the diffusion of disperse dyes out of dyed or printed polyester fibre during heat treatments, and their accumulation on the fibre surface. With the introduction of the permanent press finish, there were considerable problems with polyester/cotton qualities due to thermomigrated dyes....

White, the symbol of peace and tranquility, is one of the most popular apparently 'achromatic' dyestuff used in textiles. Generally most of the formal wares and summer cool clothing are White or light pastel shades augmented with Whites. Such Whites obtained by the Optical Brightening Agents (OBA)...

The continuous dyeing of Cotton, Polyester & their blends is gaining importance over the traditional exhaust dyeing process owing to the major advantages in terms of uniformity of shades in long yardages, high productivity, simple/ short dyeing process, low utility cost in terms of consumption of dyes, chemicals, water, energy & low effluent generation...