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Chemical process on fabrics to avoid easy creasing. The "Minicare" anti crease treatment protects whites too, but then these treated fabrics cannot be bleached.
Very promising early results for the PURACQUA Project, "Bioabsorption with inactivated fungal biomass". →
The Centro Tessile Cotoniero ed Abbigliamento S.p.A., following the Inspection Report n. 0907342, has renewed until October 11th 2010 the Oeko-Tex Standard 100 Class I Certificate, articles for newborn babies. →
Viscose substance obtained from cellulose submitted to physical and chemical treatments using carbon sulphur and sodium hydoxide, made into the artificial fibres called viscose rayon. →
A sterilization treatment applied to children’s underwear, hospital sheets, footwear. A trademark that appeared in 1930 supplying the market with an antibacterial product. →
Commercial name for fabric containing highly stretchable threads of elastofibre (rubber, elastane). →
Cotton fabric or yarn having undergone the process of mercerization rendering it more lustrous and hard-wearing. The name comes from the inventor of the process: J. Mercer. →