NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT IN TEXTILES AND APPAREL INDUSTRY

Product development is key to survival of any industry with change of time. This article discusses about the process of new product development in textile and apparel industry. Major points considered during this process are demand of customers, availability of new raw materials, sustainability, economic validity and responsibiiity towards nature. Engineering of products is a complicated issue here due to natural variability of textile materials, limitations of fibre available and use of old conventional machineries in many cases.

Self-Reboot-Mobility of Self-Cleaning Antimicrobial Industry on Textiles and Apparel for Impact of COVID-19

Self-reboot-mobility of self-cleaning antimicrobial industry on textiles and apparel is receiving an increasing amount of interest worldwide as a method to address Antimicrobial in materials. In particular, for advanced high-performance fiber-reinforced polymer of self-reboot-mobility (SRM) with composite materials, Self-reboot-mobility of self-cleaning antimicrobial industry on textiles and apparel offers an alternative to employing conservative damagetolerant designs and a mechanism for ameliorating inaccessible and invidious internal Antimicrobial within a structure. This article considers in some detail the various self-reboot-mobility of self-cleaning antimicrobial industry on textiles and apparel technologies currently being developed for SRM with composite materials. Key constraints for incorporating such a function in SRMs are that it not be detrimental to inherent mechanical properties and that it not impose a severe weight penalty

Control quantity or toxicity of textile chemicals? A case study of denim jeans in the warp-dyeing phase

The extensive use and discharge of chemicals is one of the main factors leading to serious environmental pollution in the textiles and apparel industry. The chemical footprint (ChF) is a toxicity-based chemical management method that is used to quantitatively evaluate the potential toxic effects of chemical pollutants discharged during the production of textiles and apparel products on human health and environmental safety. Compared with the traditional quantity-based method, this method needs to simulate the entire process of chemicals from discharge to impact, involving a series of steps of fate, exposure and effect, which greatly increases the difficulty of modeling. A scientific question is whether it is worth spending so much effort to quantify the toxicity of chemicals. Taking the warp-dyeing phase of denim jeans as an example, this paper calculated the ChFs for both human and ecological toxicities of textile chemicals based on the USEtox model, and compared them with the values of discharge quantities. The results reveal that there is a certain inconsistency between the discharge quantity and toxicity of chemical substances. Relying solely on the amount of chemicals discharged can sometimes lead to misjudgments, emphasizing the importance of controlling the toxicity of chemicals.

Editors’ Notes: Advancing Design Scholarship in Textiles and Apparel

The past 20 years have seen growth in exposure and academic outlets for design scholarship through new journals, special topics sessions and conferences, and PhD programs. Yet, there is a lack of strong published examples of design scholarship in textiles and apparel as designer scholars and administrators still struggle to understand how to conduct, document, and evaluate design scholarship. This issue, long overdue, looks at the current state of design research in our textile and apparel discipline and provides examples that begin to fill the gap in our shared understanding of a way forward.