Abstract:
In todays circumstances, Contamination playinga vital role in deciding the quality of cotton apart from essential propertiessuch as length, strength, fineness. Contamination of raw cotton can take placeat every step i.e. from the farm picking to the ginning stage. Contamination, evenif it is a single foreign fibre, can lead to the downgrading of yarn, fabric orgarments or even the total rejection of an entire batch and can causeirreparable harm to the relationship between growers, ginners, merchants andtextile and clothing mills. An International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF)reported that claims due to contamination amounted to between 1.4 3.2% oftotal sales of 100% cotton and cotton blended yarns. The main aim of this paperis to give a perspective outlook about the contaminants and its types, causes,effects, statistics of contaminants, preventive measures to eliminatecontaminants and contamination cleaning methods.
Author is a lecturer in Dept .of Textile Technology, KumaraguruCollege of Technology, Coimbatore
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