This presentation is about evolution of Textile Industry from animan skin to most modern performance clothing. It gives overview of past, present & future innovations in Textile Industry.
21. Aerospace Textile
Covers special finished products to highly engineered textile materials
Includes Textile for
Aircraft
space suits
space shuttles
space transportations
lunar & mars mission
Stitching combined with resin film infusion that showed the greatest
potential for overcoming the cost & damage tolerance barriers in wing
structure.
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24. Medical Textiles
Provides bio receptive and biocompatible material
Remarkable Application
“Artificial Heart Valve”:
Made from pyrolytic carbon, used for over 30 years
Bi-leaflet designs, meaning that they employ two carbon “leaflets” to
regulate flow to a single direction
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25. Sport Textiles
Provides light weight material with safety features that are
Tougher than wood
Breathes like skin
Waterproof like rubber
Eco-friendly & highly economical
Advantages
Moisture management
Good perspiration fastness
Flexibility
Good heat conductivity
Immense comfort
Superior strength and durability.
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26. Digital Printing
Digital textile printing is described as any ink jet based method of printing
colorants onto fabric
Digital textile printing started in the late 1980s as a possible replacement for
analog screen printing
With the use of easily accessible files, much more complex wide format
printers: a vast amount of subtle effects and detail can be achieved
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28. Nano polymer coatings imparts amazing new properties to materials
Increasing effectiveness
Decreasing maintenance time and cost
Applications
Amni Soul Eco: launched in mid-2014
Helps textile decompose in merely three years after having been
discarded
Yarn is 100% recyclable & safe for use in adult, child, and baby
apparel
Nano Polymer technology
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29. Nano Coating: Stainless material
Provides superhydrophobic textiles
Completely water and oil repellent textiles
Easy cleaning
Invisibility
Universal
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30. Sensing T-shirts
Used for teenagers suffering from scoliosis
T-shirt with textile pressure sensors to increase the comfort and
effectiveness of spinal braces
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31. Edema Stocking
Developed by Ohmatex in Denmark
Electronic smart textile device that monitors and measures changes in leg
volume for patients suffering from edema (fluid accumulation or swelling)
of the lower limbs
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32. EQ-Top Seismic Wallpaper
Product is a composite of strong and stiff glass fibers, interwoven to create
durable, elastic panels.
Crisscross fibers in various directions so that they are strong and pliable,
thus distributing energy evenly when the walls shake during an earthquake
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33. Newlife Polyester Yarn
Made from 100% post-consumer recycled plastic bottles
It is processed by mechanical rather than chemical means
Made in Italy, the fabric is used in fashion, sportswear, underwear, medical
garments and other clothes and furnishings
Georgio Armani used it to create a fashionable, eco-friendly gown for LIvia
Firth at the 2012 Golden Globe Awards.
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34. Mushroom Material
New class of home-compostable bio-plastics
Based on mycelium: a living organism analogous to the root structure of
mushrooms.
The biomaterials are high-performance and an environmentally responsible
alternative to traditional polystyrene plastic
performs like foam, but is renewable, natural, home-compostable, and
environmentally responsible
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36. Sports and military industries
Fabrics that help regulate body temperature, reduce wind resistance and
control muscle vibration
Health & Beauty Industry
Drug-releasing medical textiles
Drug delivery through skin gel
Illuminated textiles for the photodynamic
treatment of tumours
Fabrics with moisturizer, perfume, & anti-aging
properties
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37. Self-Repairing Textile
Researchers at SINTEF added microcapsules containing a glue-like
substance to the plastic polyurethane
If garment snags, the capsules release a sealant that fills in the gaps and
hardens with contact to air and water
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38. Aesthetic Smart textile
Fabrics that light up to fabrics that can change color
Fabrics gather energy from environment by harnessing vibrations, sound
or heat & reacts to input
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39. Fibres of the future: Embedding electronics
Electronics, such as LEDs, sensors and micro-controllers are directly
embedded into yarns, which can then be made into any number of
products, from clothes to car seats
Currently yarns which are 0.9 mm in diameter are produced, but further
reduction in size is expected (0.2 mm)
Reduction in size will allow more complex circuits to be embedded in
yarns which would improve the variety of functions the fibres can
perform
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40. Innovation in Fibers
Ingeo: Fabric from fermented corn starches
Can be spun into fibers for apparel and
home textiles, and also used for bio-plastics
Silk-Like Fiber Derived from Spoiled Milk
A company called Qmilch makes fabric from protein found in soured
‘secondary milk’
This zero-waste fabric requires no harmful chemicals to make, and uses
less water in the production process than other milk-based fabrics
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45. Potential maximum speed of ring spinning: raised from 15,000 to 25,000 rpm
with following advances:
Longer Frame: reduce the relative costs of
automatic doffing
Combination of spinning frame and winding
enhanced the adoption of automation
Automatic doffing: reduced doffing time thus package
(and ring) size was less critical
Splicing on the winder: yarn joins became less obtrusive — again offering
the potential of smaller package
Smaller rings: for limiting traveler velocity (40 m/s), higher rotational
speeds (and hence twisting rates) could be achieved.
Longer Machines: increasing number of spindles per machine up to 1,800
Ring Spinning
46. Innovation in Drafting System – High drafts in range of 70 -100
Developments in Ring Design
Orbit ring
Ceramic Ring
Rotating Ring
Spindle Identification
Tracking of spindles from the ring frame: helps for
Process quality control
Identification of spindles on the ring frame responsible for producing
defective yarns
Increasing yarn quality as well as efficiency, by more readily indicating
faulty positions on the spinning frame
Ring Spinning
47. Compact Spinning
Create yarns that are less hairy and stronger by use of additional drafting
components and pneumatics
Provides either a stronger yarn or spin at higher production speeds with
lower twist
48. Rotor Spinning
Present state-of-the-art machines have significant integrated automation
such as
• Doffing
• Piecing
• Cleaning
• Process/Product monitoring
Additionally, the machine can be part of a material handling system from
sliver through to packaged yarn
49. Jet Spinning / Vortex Spinning
Murata Jet Spinning (MJS)
• It offers high speed production of finer-count yarns
• Several variants have been introduced, including Murata Twin Spin
(MTS) and Roller Jet Spinning (RJS)
• Different jets were offered to accommodate different yarn styles
• To extend the use of jet spinning, with particular respect to fiber type and
yarn count
Murata Vortex Spinning (MVS)
• Capable of spinning uncombed cotton slivers into acceptable yarns at
speeds that were significantly higher than with any other system
50. Weaving
Major developments in weaving machinery primarily geared up with
objective of:
Higher productivity
Better quality
Reduction in number of operations through automation
Reduce cost of production
In recent years, beside above flexibility & improvement in machine
utilization are receiving more attention by machinery manufacturers
51. Remarkable Developments in Weaving
Past developments in weft insertion systems:
Shuttle looms
Projectile looms
Rapier looms
Airjet looms
Waterjet looms
Multiphase looms
Other Developments like higher production system, microprocessor
application, information technology, quick style change system, energy
conservation, safety measures
53. Textile Wet Processing
Major Issues
Textile processing industry is one of the largest industrial users of process
water and huge quantities of complex chemicals
So, Wet processing industry of the future should be
Cost effective
Environmental-friendly
Gentle to the textile materials
Solution
Supercritical carbon dioxide has been tried in different areas of textile
treatments
Has very high potential because this dyeing medium completely avoids
water pollution and use of conventional auxiliaries in dyeing as well as
after treatments
The drying after dyeing is also not required
The CO dyeing technology is on its way to become an industrial
application in coming future
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56. Apparels
Apparels are still being produced as fashion textiles or as cheapest costumes
Ideas correlating human beings needs with properties of textiles are yet to
be explored
Examples
Problem:
Denim Jeans: longer life becomes imperative to replace it by new pair
of jeans
Solution needed: research for successfully reducing life of jeans
thereby facilitating overall reduction in the cost of jeans
57. Summary
Innovation is a continuous process
Need to eliminate lengthy textile processes
Costumes of Consumer choice, design and colour will directly be formed
from granules or fibres
Need to have point of view on use of disposable textiles and apparels for
events like drama, uniforms, sports activities, picnics etc