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Process for removing colour from dyed fabrics or from printed or finished products and so allowing new treatment.
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. →
Machine carrying out carding process. →
Finishing process involving the application of small amount of appropriate substance and then calendering to obtain a smooth and lustrous surface. →
Small buttons, or rather balls and clumps of fluff that form during spinning and get incorporated into the yarn; this technique is used to give textured yarns a bobbly effect, sometimes in various colours. These yarns are used both in knitwear and fabrics like Donegal and Knickerbocker. →
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. →