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Topic: Garment and Textile Care Industry

	Textile manufacturing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Textile manufacturing is one of the oldest of man's technologies.
		The oldest known textiles date back to about 5000 B.C. In order to make textiles, the first requirement is a source of fibre from which a yarn can be made, primarily by spinning.
		This description is based on the assumption that wool is the fibre being used.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Garment_industry (4444 words)

	Women textile workers demand justice : on the situation of the textile and garment industry in the countries of the ...
		Women textile workers demand justice : on the situation of the textile and garment industry in the countries of the South.
		The textile industry is extremely complex and varied in its composition and structure, with the informal handspun and handwoven and even the homebased sector at one end of the spectrum, to the capital intensive, large-scale organized mill sector at the other.
		Again, internationally, the textile industry was in a state of recession.Against this backdrop, the deeply dissatisfied workers rejected their representative union, RMMS (Rashtriya Mill Mazdoor Sangh), chose an outside leader and went on strike.
	www.fes.de /fulltext/iez/00061004.htm (3448 words)

	Paxar identification and tracking products - Care Labels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		After all, garments that are made without care label - or with one that provides inaccurate cleaning instructions - may be found to be in violation of this rule.
		One of the motivating factors in the FTC's introduction of care symbols in the U.S. was mandate by NAFTA to unify care labeling.
		In Mexico, care labeling is mandatory and there are indicators that Mexico is moving toward accepting the FTC rules on care labeling.
	www.paxar.com /carelabel (2516 words)

	EPA/OPPT/Design for the Environment: Garment and Textile Care Publications - Case Study: Wetcleaning Systems for ...
		Driven by the health and environmental concerns associated with traditional drycleaning solvents, recent advances in wetcleaning technology, garment care, and textile manufacturing have resulted in the emergence of commercial wetcleaning as a viable and environmentally-preferable clothes cleaning technology.
		Garments cleaned by traditional drycleaning methods are not subjected to the same conditions as those garments that are immersed and agitated in water.
		One of the goals of the DfE Garment and Textile Care Partnership (GTCP) is to provide cleaners with information that can help them run their facilities in a way that is safer for workers, more environmentally sound, and more cost effective.
	www.epa.gov /dfe/pubs/garment/wsgc/wetclean.htm (3519 words)

	Dry Cleaning - Operations
		Dry cleaning allows garments to be cleaned in a manner that reduces damage to fabrics which is common in home-laundering processes that use water, detergent, agitation, and heat to clean the material.
		During the dry-cleaning process, garments are immersed in a type of liquid that causes the fabric to become wet but does not saturate or damage the fibers of the cloth.
		Garments are first received from the customer, then inspected, pre-treated for stains, and sorted by color and fabric.
	www.p2ric.org /topichubs/subsection.cfm?hub=702&subsec=11&nav=11 (1197 words)

	Environmentally Sustainable Textiles Initiative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The textile industry faces several problems, the most serious of which is the ecological problem, particularly those associated with wastewater effluent.
		To eliminate or at least reduce pollution, the present project is designed to contribute to the concepts and implementations of clear technology in textile industry, foam coloration, an approach which finds sound application and constitute a fascinating field for research and development and forms the essential subject of the project.
		Environmental aspects in the textile industry are typically addressed at the corporate level, and the enviornmental costs are viewed as corporate overhead.
	www.tx.ncsu.edu /ci/environmental/std_past_projects.cfm (2487 words)

	EPA/OPPT/Design for the Environment: Garment and Textile Care Publications - Resource Guide
		The DFE Garment and Textile Care Program is a voluntary collaboration among the garment and textile care industry, environmental groups, and the U.S. EPA, dedicated to reducing risks and preventing pollution associated with drycleaning chemicals.
		Textile Industry Affairs, a unit of the Clorox Company, provides assistance to apparel and textile professionals in implementing the FTC Care Label Rule and educating apparel trade and consumers about care symbols and instructions.
		Innovative programs bridge the gap between traditional education, research and extension activities of the university and the fiber, textile, apparel and retail industries, consumers and the textile care industries.
	www.epa.gov /opptintr/dfe/pubs/garment/gcrg/resource.htm (2631 words)

	206 March 2000
		In the 1930s and 1940s, about one-fourth of all customers' garments were cleaned with water, and the rest of the garments were cleaned with liquid solvents, and detergents.
		To avoid the health and environmental hazards of Perc, the EPA and the professional garment and textile care industry have developed the use of wetcleaning technology.
		Case-Study: Wetcleaning Systems for Garment Care issued in May 1999 by the EPA is 8 pages of some history, details of how wetcleaning works, and the benefits and challenges of wetcleaning relative to traditional drycleaning.
	www.nku.edu /~yannarella/news0003.html (1990 words)

	Fabric University - Links to Apparel and Textile Associations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This association was established to promote the use of American textile machinery within the domestic textile industry in the areas of fiber production, weaving, knitting, and sewing.
		The Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) is a not-for-profit trade association whose member companies represent all aspects of the international industrial and technical fabrics and textiles marketplace.
		The mission of The Textile Institute is to promote professionalism in all areas associated with the textile industries worldwide.
	www.fabriclink.com /L-Assoc.html (1548 words)

	Garment Wash Care Labels, Clothing Labels, Apparel Labels, Garment Labels,Labels with washing care instruction symbols, ...
		Garment Wash Care Labels are printed on label printing machines (thermal transfer printers) espically suitable to print textile materials such as nylon taffeta, satin and other polyester based textile materials to meet the most stringent demands of the textile, apparel, clothing and garment industry.
		All wash care symbols can be printed as these label printing sofwares have built-in support for care label symbols, so there is no need for the customer to provide these care label symbol images thus reducing the possibility of errors and misprinting.
		Clothing Care Labels printed with us have resistance against the following which are required by the garment and apparel industry.
	barcodeprinting.3sindustries.com /garment_wash_care_labels.php (319 words)

	bag clothing garment industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the garment industry, the European Trade Union Centre of Textiles, Clothing and Leather (ETUC/TCL) and EURATEX, the European employers...
		garment industry so that manufacturers and retailers, who manufacture their own private label clothing...
		Garment Industry Sybra Sira is a known and...
	www.mrbags.com /bag-shop/bag-clothing-garment-industry.html (1148 words)

	Micell Technologies, Inc.: It isn’t easy being green - October 2001 Feature Story: Business Leader Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		However, convincing a fragmented marketplace of 35,000 dry cleaners across the states and industrial giants in the microelectronics sector to change their ways is a monumental task.
		Hangers would be pleased to prove that their process not only produces outstanding cleaning results, but it is also much easier on clothes with no shrinking, fading, harmful residues, or odors.
		The EPA Design for the Environment (DfE) Program, a collaborative effort of the EPA and the garment and textile care industry, recognizes in their case study that "the liquid carbon dioxide (CO2) cleaning process is one example of an environmentally-preferable technology that can effectively clean garments."
	www.businessleader.com /bl/oct01/micell.html (2482 words)

	TCS Textile Consultancy Services, Textiles, consultancy
		Steve now has almost 25 years' experience as a textile consultant to commerce and industry, the textile care industries, insurance companies and the legal profession, as well as to individual consumers.
		Assisting in disputes between manufacturers/wholesalers/suppliers of textiles or textile products and their industrial customers where the textile or textile product has apparently failed to perform appropriately or to the standard expected or specified by the customer
		The testing of textiles to determine fibre content, colourfastness and shrinkage to specified care treatments, such as dry cleaning and laundering, in order to determine whether the provided fibre content and care labelling information is accurate and correct and complies with Australian textile labelling requirements
	www.tcstextileconsultancy.com (445 words)

	Custom labels, printed garment, apparel, textile, and clothing hang tags - American Label
		American Label is a leading label manufacturer in the garment and apparel industry, printing hang tags, security, garment adhesive labels, hang tag label combinations, and both clothing and textile labels.
		Garment labels and apparel hang tags for the textile industry really are our specialty.
		We go the extra mile to make certain each and every order is handled with the greatest care, professionalism and accuracy.
	www.americanlabelco.com (161 words)

	Ideal Chemical : Textile Care Products
		To satisfy the unique needs of the dry cleaning, laundry, textile care, and garment wet processing industries, Ideal offers a comprehensive line of fabric cleaning and treatment chemicals, as well as packaging, material handling, and related products and services.
		Ideal's sales force and technical support personnel are professional textile care industry experts who offer experience and ideas to help any industrial laundry, dry cleaning, health care, hospitality, or garment wet processing customer.
		Controlling inventory is an important part of making any textile care company profitable.
	www.idealchemical.com /textcare.html (174 words)

	Thailand: Textile and garment industry executives worry that political turmoil may hurt exports
		The textile and garment industry has been expecting to reap big rewards from bilateral trade talks with the US and Japan.
		The country's textile exports were expected to grow 8 per cent to Bt290 billion this year, but that estimate took into account benefits from FTAs.
		Meanwhile, the textiles and garment industry on March 7 unveiled a plan to start the second phase of the Textile and Garment Development in Efficiency and Technology Project (T-det), which aims to boost the sector's potential and ensure access to major markets.
	www.tmcnet.com /usubmit/2006/03/10/1447406.htm (965 words)

	IFI: The Textile and Fabric Care Industry: About IFI
		Representing over ten thousand retail dry cleaning facilities in the United States alone, IFI is the world's leading professional garment care organization.
		Through legislative and regulatory policy development, education, professional training, information, garment analysis, research, and textile testing, IFI offers solutions to help member businesses remain on the competitive edge.
		The International Textile Analysis Laboratory (ITAL) provides unbiased, analysis reports to determine cause of stained or damaged garments in the cleaning process.
	www.ifi.org /industry/aboutifi.html (295 words)

	Textile and Garment Rental Industry
		Textile rental companies can start offering the service almost immediately after receiving their supplies.
		The result is a fully-integrated line of odor control products and systems specially designed to satisfy the unique demands of commercial route service.
		Our trained customer service representatives are part of a comprehensive customer support program that includes easy-to-follow training manuals, live training seminars, computer based training, interactive web site and more.
	www.airscent.com /garment_rental.htm (618 words)

	Textile Care Initiative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The purpose of developing the "testing soiled samples" is to enable comparison of alternative cleaning methods to determine what processes provide adequate cleaning of the rags to be able to re-use them instead of disposing of them in landfills.
		Identify the mechanisms responsible for the observed advantages gained by employing ultrasound in textile wet processes.
		Final test results would be provided to Natural Clean in a report and also included in the final reporting to the EPA as a potential alternative process to replace perc cleaning for garments labeled dry clean only.
	www.tx.ncsu.edu /ci/texcare/std_past_projects.cfm (910 words)

	Textile Merit Badge Requirements
		Discuss with your merit badge counselor the importance of textiles.
		With a magnifying glass, examine a woven fabric, a nonwoven fabric, and a knitted fabric.
		Explain to your merit badge counselor, either verbally or in a written report, five career possibilities in the textile industry.
	www.ct-troop39.org /meritb/textile.htm (333 words)

	Textile and Apparel Industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The textile industry ended 1994 employing 674,000 workers compared with December 1993's payroll of 671,000, while the apparel industry ended the year with 946,000 workers, down from 959,000 a year earlier.
		The average hourly textile industry wage in December increased to $9.28 against November's $9.26 and December 1993's wage of $9.01.
		However, the industry is keeping its options open when it comes to possibly seeking an extension of the phaseout, according to Larry K. Martin, the new president of the American Apparel Manufacturers Association.
	www.utexas.edu /centers/nfic/natnews/archives/1995/Feb.1995.tex.htm (15026 words)

	Women textile workers demand justice : on the situation of the textile and garment industry in the countries of the ...
		Extract from a statement by the European Trade Union Committee Textile, Garment and Leather on the topic "Social Clauses", dated 13 February 1989
		This alone was particularly important as the competitive advantages of these countries rely almost exclusively on unsocial and inhumane working conditions as well as on a non-competitive practice of subsidization.
		To support workers in developing countries in their efforts to secure a part of the social and economic benefits of industrialization.
	www.fes.de /fulltext/iez/00061008.htm (1493 words)

	NEP2News
		This effort focuses on a manageable subset of New York State's industrial facilities: the 400+ facilities that generate and release 95 percent of the State's toxic chemicals and hazardous substances (thus the title of the project-the "400/95" Initiative).
		The electroplating and metal finishing industries generate large amounts of wastewater and find that evaporators are useful for concentrating process chemicals for material recovery/reuse and for reducing the volume of wastewater.
		Hence, the evaporator policy was created, in a spirit of cooperation between government and industry, to clarify permit issues and to remove the ambiguity associated with use and misuse of evaporator technologies.
	www.newmoa.org /prevention/newsletters/9_2/NEP2News9_2.htm (11273 words)

	Textiles - UW-Stout LLC
		Many of the textile periodicals are not indexed in standard indexing services.
		Statistical sources on the textile industry are often needed to indicate trends.
		Infomat "Fashion Industry Information Services and Search Engine" Under Guides select "textile industry in (indicate specific country)".
	stoutinfo.uwstout.edu /lib/subjects/textile.htm (1174 words)

	Forenta - World Class Textile Care Solutions
		Forenta manufactures and markets a wide range of products to meet the needs of the textile care industry.
		Forenta garment presses, steam-air finishing machines, conveyors, dry cleaning machines and miscellaneous other products provide cost effective solutions to the needs of dry cleaners and laundries throughout the world.
		Forenta's reputation for its commitment to the customer is unequaled in the fabric care industry.
	www.forentausa.com (130 words)

	P2Rx ™ Topic Hubs and Sector Resources for Service Industries
		The Automotive Recyclers Association (ARA) is an international trade association that represents an industry dedicated to the efficient removal and reuse of automotive parts, and the safe disposal of inoperable motor vehicles.
		This guide is designed to inform automobile recyclers about registrations, permits and regulations pertinent to the industry, and to aid automobile recyclers in developing pollution prevention measures that can minimize waste and promote environmental compliance.
		This training course teaches garment care professionals and staff about a new way to clean garments.
	www.p2rx.org /P2InfoNexpert/sectorInfo.cfm?SectorID=10&Show=Y (3037 words)

	BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources
		Provides basic information concerning the production, characteristics, advantages and care of textile products, a stain removal guide, a glossary of fibre and textile terms, a collection of sayings, phrases, movies and song titles which contain fabric or textile terms and tips on how to read a garment label.
		The School was formerly the Scottish College of Textiles (Galashiels) which merged with the University in October 1998.
		Historical information on the textile industry, including inventors and inventions, textile entrepreneurs, biographies of factory workers, and debates on child labour.
	www.bubl.ac.uk /link/linkbrowse.cfm?menuid=9792 (407 words)

	Petroleum Drycleaning Regulations
		Consequently, petroleum drycleaning establishments tend to be larger operations relative to the drycleaners who cater to a residential clientele, i.e., the neighborhood cleaners.
		Because petroleum drycleaners presently form a distinct sector (due to size, customer type, and solvent type) within the garment and textile care industry, these operations are subject to special Federal and State regulatory requirements.
		Information on the Garment and Textile Care Program, including other DfE documents related to this one, can be found on http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/dfe/garment/garment.html.
	www.natclo.com /resources/petregs.html (2124 words)

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