" The majority of the world's cotton crop is in the northern hemisph-ere where the crop is either very young, or just being planted. With a full growing season ahead of us, it's difficult to predict the production outcome at this time. Even so, we don't see any shortage of supply availability to the global textile industry. Producers in our region have planted an estimated 3.45 million acres this season, close to the long-term average of 3.5 million acres. Recent rains have been encouraging to our growers, although there is still concern that some of the dryland acreage needs more."
Shares their perceptions on International Cotton Industry for more subscribe now...
STEVE VERETT,
Executive VP,
ROGER HALDENBY,
VP Operations of Plains Cotton Growers, Lubbock, USA
Alginate Fibres - An Overview
“ Alginate is a natural
polymer that exists widely in many species of brown seaweed. The biological function of alginates is to give strength and
lexibility to the algal tissue and regulate the water content in the seaweed. It is these properties along with the ability to produce fibres
from its isomers, which make Alginate the ideal wound dressing. This based study set out to establish whether branan ferulate - a
polysaccharide compound available in gels could be successfully added to the fibre of an alginate dressing to provide a superior
wound-care dressing.”
for more subscribe now...D. Gopalakrishnan
South India Institute of Fashion Technology,
Coimbatore
D. Tamilalagan
Sona College of Technology, Salem
Kamatchi Gayathri
Jaya Engineering College, Chennai
Opportunities On The Horizon For Technical Textiles
“ The Indian textile industry should set its eye on technical textiles which will encompass
value-added textiles right from fiber to industrial products. A unified approach has to be ollowed to grow both durable and single use value-
added products. Awareness on the converting sector and the marketing of technical textiles should be at the front burner...”
for more subscribe now...SESHADRI S. RAMKUMAR
Nonwovens and Advanced Materials Laboratory,
The Institute of Environmental and Human Health
Texas Tech University,
Lubbock, Texas USA
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