“Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” says Brundtland Politician and sustainable development leader. This concept has been imbibed by Garmon and Bozetto – who are a chemical manufacturing company from Italy and firmly believe in innovation with sustainability.   According to them , world still lacks the know-how and technologies to be 100% sustainable; but ...Read More

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  The use of ammonia in mercerization has been known since the 1930’s and was developed commercially for fabric processing around 1970 in what was originally known as the Tedesco process, which was subsequently acquired by the Sanforized company and made well-known as the Sanfor-Set®process. The fashion appeal of so-called “flat-finish” denim resulting from Japanese ammonia-finished denim that many companies substituted caustic-mercerized fabrics, often presenting them as ...Read More

This is a guest post by Harry Mercer. This is a very technical description – read on if you are technically oriented.. Here are given some important dyeing processes related to indigo dyeing – specially on Rope Dyeing . Pre Treatment Pre-treatment is conducted in the 1st tank. The most common pre-treatments are : 1.  Sulfur bottoming 2.  Scouring with sodium hydroxide 3.  Causticizing or Mercerizing Pre- Treatment : Sulphur Bottoming •The purpose of sulfur bottoming was ...Read More

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AneCalc is a tool developed by American & Efird to assist in estimating the thread consumption and cost per thread cost per jeans / garment alongwith the number of cones one needs for a given programme. The tools are the in the form of a an excel spreadsheet and one has to just enter basic information to get the consumption and costs. There are basically three AneCalc spreadsheets. Lightweight : 2- 4 oz weight fabrics. Medium weight : 5-8 oz fabrics. Heavy Weight : 9 –15 oz ...Read More

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This is a very detailed technical guest article about Resin treatments from Saurabh Rai Today we will talk about Resin & its use in Denim garments industry to create unique & vintage looks which add value to denim garments & improves its saleability  in market. In 80’s we have seen Resin being used to give non press , iron free trousers & now we are using in Denims to make wrinkles & creases to look natural vintage which stays after multiple home laundries. The ...Read More

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The name “Loopdye” results from the method of skying or air passage for oxidizing the Indigo-dyed yarn and the method of passing through the Indigo dye. On the other 2 important Indigo machine types, the dyed yarn is passed through from 6-8 Indigo boxes on rope machines or 6-20 Indigo boxes on slasher (sheet) Indigo machines, multiple dye boxes being necessary for dark shades because only a small amount of Indigo can be applied in each immersion. After immersion in each Indigo dye box, ...Read More

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This is a guest post by Harry Mercer. This is a part of the  presentation that he made in the denim seminar held recently at Mexico  . It gives various tips about getting better quality denim fabrics by taking care of parameters at finishing stage. Why Is Finishing Quality Critical? Denim finishing is critical to profits in that customers who pay the highest prices are very demanding with regard to shrinkage differences between and within fabric rolls. These customers will accept ...Read More

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An important seminar on denim manufacturing is scheduled to take place in Puebla –Mexico on September 23rd and 24th 2010. The Mexican Textile Institute will be sponsoring the  seminar titled "Improved Denim Manufacturing in Dyeing and Finishing" . Topics include: Denim Finishing Techniques for Highest Quality and Profits; Chemistry and Application of Sulfur Dyes in Denim; Denim Product Development Techniques; Chemistry of Indigo Dyeing, Special Dyeing Techniques, ...Read More

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Invista sponsored the recently held Kingins show and  will be sponsoring the upcoming next few shows in LA  , Hong Kong and Shanghai . They also displayed some of their cool denim products at the NY show . Lycra name being synonymous with stretch , most of the products were stretch related though some of them were also non- stretch and were broadly divided into four fabric themes . I spoke to Kristin Altimari and she explained all the denim themes that Invista is focusing on ...Read More

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There are various material and process inputs that go into the making of a denim jeans – fabric , cutting and sewing , washing , adding embellishments etc . Each of these adds up a good amount of money to bring out the production cost of the jeans. Then there is packing , transportation , duties , retailing cost and so on…………. How do 5 –15 cents look like in this whole costing process ? Not much I guess . But spend correctly , they can cause a difference in the look of the jeans ...Read More

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