The U.S. textile industry is one of the more important employers in the manufacturing sector, with 232,000 workers, representing 2 percent of the U.S. manufacturing workforce. The United States is a globally competitive manufacturer of textiles, including textile raw materials, yarns, fabrics, apparel and home furnishings, and other textile finished products. Our strength is in… Continue reading U.S. Textile Industry
Industrial filtration market report forecasts trends through 2021 The top three emerging trends driving the global industrial filtration market are innovations in filtering media, growth in India’s chemical sector and Asia’s growing pharmaceutical sector, according to a new report from Technavio. Technavio’s latest report on the global industrial filtration market provides an analysis of the most important… Continue reading Markets Update: Top trends boosting industrial filtration; Global level sensor market worth $5.48B by 2025
In 2012, the U.S. aerospace industry contributed $118.5 billion in export sales to the U.S. economy. The industry’s positive trade balance of $70.5 billion is the largest trade surplus of any manufacturing industry and came from exporting 64.3 percent of all aerospace production. Foreign firms are attracted to the U.S. aerospace market because it is… Continue reading U.S. Aerospace Industry
The United States has one of the largest automotive markets in the world and is home to 13 auto manufacturers. From 2008 to 2012, manufacturers produced an average of over 8 million passenger vehicles annually in the United States. Since Honda opened its first U.S. plant in 1982, almost every major European, Japanese, and Korean… Continue reading The Automotive Industry
The major steps in the manufacture of textiles and clothes are: Harvest and clean the fiber or wool. Card it and spin it into threads. Weave the threads into cloth. Fashion and sew the cloth into clothes. Great Britain’s Lead in Textile Machinery During the early eighteenth century, Great Britain was determined to dominate the textile industry.… Continue reading A History of the Textile Revolution
Technical Textiles: The technical textiles are defined as textile materials and products manufactured primarily for their technical performance and functional properties rather than their aesthetic or decorative characteristics. Categories of Technical Textile: Depending on the product characteristics, functional requirements and end-use applications the highly diversified range of technical textile products has been grouped into categories: Agro Textiles (Agriculture,… Continue reading What is Aerospace Textile | Application of Aerospace Textiles
Textiles are the largest items of application next only to engineering goods; textiles have found wider acceptance in industry, house hold, aerospace and apparel field.etc. Today industrial textile has an old tradition, in the 20th century when man-made fibers became available, the range of industrial textiles was rapidly widened by textiles before, These are currently used… Continue reading What is Industrial textiles? Classification of industrial textiles?
Technical textiles play a major and profitable role in filtration media. A wide variety of fibers, dref yarns, nonwoven fabrics, multifilament and monofilament woven fabrics, and in some cases blends or combinations of more than one of the above, are used in filtration applications. Within this article, dollar amounts are for North America specific to… Continue reading Fibers, Textiles And Nonwovens In Filtration
Definition of Fibers: The essential requirements for fibers to be spun into yarn include a length of at least 5 millimeters, flexibility, cohesiveness, and sufficient strength. Fibres are the foundation for all textile products and can either be natural (natural fibres) or man-made (manufactured or man-made regenerated). Within these two types or groups, there are two main kinds of fibres: Fibres of indefinite (very great) length, called filaments. Fibres of much shorter length, called staple fibres. Filaments are generally combined and twisted to form yarns, whilst staple fibres are spun to create yarns. Yarns are then typically woven or knitted into fabrics. A piece of… Continue reading Definition of Textile Fibers & Types of Textile Fibers.
Traditional food preparation was a painstaking process. Unlike modern shoppers who have the luxury of buying anything they can afford when they want it, our ancestors had to work with whatever was available to them at the time. That meant finding ways to eat almost anything — from foraged greens to the chewiest, most unappealing… Continue reading Traditional Food Processing Methods
