Taiwan textile Federation

The International textile exhibition Asia 2011 Exhibition, one of the most promising and enduring Event to be held for the 7th successive year at the Karachi Expo Centre from 16 - 18 April 2011 is the official event of the Federal Ministry of textile exhibition Industry. The event is being organized at the most opportune time when the government is looking forward to modernize and upgrade the textile exhibition sector of the country for better quality products and enhanced productivity. The exhibition aims to focus on the immense buying selling potential of textile exhibition & garment machinery, accessories, raw material supplies, chemicals and allied services under one roof.

Cotton is the cash crop of Pakistan. The quality of cotton and cotton related products of Pakistan are unmatched in the international markets. The ever-growing textile exhibition industry of the country has shown consistent expansion and stability over the last many years.

The exports of textile exhibition and textile exhibition products of Pakistan have shown a significant increase in the recent years. The government has offered various incentives for the industry’s up gradation and modernization.

Pakistan is at the center of a rapidly developing textile exhibition & garments manufacturing region. Apart from fulfilling its local requirements, Pakistan has emerged as the textile exhibition hub of the region. There exists a strong political will to modernize the textile exhibition sector and there is an increasing demand for compliance with ISO and other international quality certifications and standards.

As the textile exhibition industry of Pakistan being is in the midst of industrial up gradation and the businessmen are seeking newer solutions to bring more efficiency in their production systems. Therefore, textile exhibition the pioneer of grasping this opportunity will be the most successful business organization in Pakistan as none of the local industry can cater this tall order. National organizations will textile exhibition enjoy the benefit of globalization and will witness more joint ventures and collaborations textile exhibition between local and international brands.

More and more eco friendly textile enterprises are optimizing their corporate social responsibility (CSR) codes by producing green eco friendly textile
Among other chemical companies, DuPont is one providing an example of a successful CSR firm. It used to rely heavily on fossil fuels to make paint, plastics and polymers. In the 1990s, eco friendly textile renowned for its R&D that created products such as nylon, the company decided to spend billions of dollars on developing safe, environmentally friendly products. It has since cut greenhouse gas emissions by 72% and air carcinogen emissions by 92% at its facilities worldwide, according to Dawn Rittenhouse, DuPont's director of sustainable development.

The company vowed to make US$2 billion a year in revenue by 2015 from 1,000 products that would save energy and reduce pollutants. "What's good for business," Rittenhouse said, "must also eco friendly textile be good for the environment and for people worldwide."

For those who are reluctant to change, the pressure from the public is growing as more retailers are responding to a rising demand for eco-friendly eco friendly textile and apparel goods from environmentally conscious manufacturers.

Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, recently eco friendly textile announced that it would soon expect its suppliers to utilize eco-friendly processing on products ticketed for its shelves. This proclamation would undoubtedly have a tremendous effect on the way future eco friendly textile products were manufactured.

There is considerable work currently being done in the area of eco-processing. Dr Fred Cook, professor and former director of the School of Polymer,eco friendly textile & Fiber Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Ga. Tech) and member of the operating board of the National eco friendly textile Center, suggested that the key for the eco-friendly processing in the chemical and auxiliary eco friendly textile industry was the elimination of organic solvents. Other initiatives include the elimination of chemicals altogether.

Some efforts are being made to eliminate water, utilizing liquid C02 as the medium to carry dyes, pigments and more.

Dr Cook said research was currently underway at Ga. Tech with "nano dots." These extremely small metal particles are about 1 0-9 m in size, which makes the particles about the size of visible light. If the particles are of the same size as the blue rays, they would reflect yellow. When these particles are embedded in fiber, the resulting fabric becomes a color to the eye, without any use of dyes or pigments. By manipulating the size of these dots, researchers can then create virtually any color fabric.

Ga. Tech has discovered that nano-sized scales on the wings of butterflies also cause a reflection of light in certain colors. By emulating this technology and etching nano-sized grooves in the fabric, researchers have been able to provide colorful fabrics with no dyes or pigments.

Researches for organic eco friendly textile processing

Dr Martin Jacobs, Executive Director of the US National eco friendly textile Center (NTC), discusses some of the eco-friendly processing research underway at NTC. The NTC is a research consortium of eight US universities: Auburn University, Clemson University, Cornell University, Georgia Institute of Technology, North Carolina State University and Philadelphia University. It serves the US industries of fiber technology, eco friendly textile and eco friendly textile retailing.

The NTC has been investigating organic liquids for fiber extrusion under the direction of Dr Roy Broughton of Auburn Engineering. Dr Broughton suggests that cellulose eco friendly textile fibers are the most plentiful polymeric fibers in nature. Most cellulose fibers, however, are not long enough to make a fabric. Regenerating cellulose fibers including viscose rayon, cuprammonium rayon, cellulose acetate rayon and Iyocell can solve the length limitation of celluloses.

Especially, N-methylmorpholine-N-oxide (NMMO) is fulfilling as a good solvent for eco friendly textile newly developed regenerated cellulose fiber, Iyocell except solvent eco friendly textile stability and recovery.

Applications for the anti-microbial properties on eco friendly textile are diverse. Coating treatment with anti-bacterial chemical is referred as the mainstream of the anti-bacterial finishing. Due to the relatively low durability of surface treatments, coating of the surfaces is not the most eco friendly textile desirable treatment. Other anti-microbials are more toxic or less effective than the halamines under investigation in laboratories.

FABLYNX - an "eco friendly eco friendly textile" marketing & servicing company, based in Lahore - Pakistan, specializing in extending professional & technical services to eco friendly textile organizations from around the globe for over five successful years to do businesses with locally based eco friendly textile manufacturers / exporters.

The basic objective of services is to guide & help its foreign partners to source out their requirements from right supplier(s) at right price quotes.

The company's actual strength is a strong back up of its reliable team of suppliers (ranging from lower to higher class), who covers a maximum range and variety of products from cheaper end to designers class. This also increases capability to offer new products to clients for their product development requirements. Optional price structures for clients from lower to higher class suppliers, also enable them to have a good look of price variations & let them to decide , which supplier to work with.

Thus FABLYNX has an intention to offer reliable services upto satisfaction of its foreign clients from Pakistan and to supply them quality oriented eco friendly textile items / products of their own taste with a coverage of maximum variety of eco friendly textilefrom raw fibre to finished made-ups.

Earlier this month, a Treehugger delegation set out to investigate Premiere Vision New York, the slimmed-down U.S. version of the enormous eco friendly textile and clothing expo held every year in Paris. We had hoped to see some new eco-friendly fabrics, but were disappointed. A number of presenters, however, proudly touted their organic cotton, and many were happy to discuss the problems and potential in bringing environmentally sound eco friendly textile to the market.

The booklet and map made no eco friendly textile mention of eco-fabrics, so we hunted down Laurence Teinturier, the North American representative of Premiere Vision. She was thoroughly familiar with the offerings on display, and she ran down the list of designers and checked a few off from memory. "There are definitely more organic and recycled fabrics every year," she said. "There's a big interest. Many manufacturers are eco friendly textile starting to also reuse the water from dyeing and investigate other ways of being environmentally friendly."

Our first stop eco friendly textile was the booth for Masters of Linen, a French company that helps to market European linen all over the world. Pauline Delli-Carpini chatted with us about the ways that linen outperforms cotton: conventional linen growing practices use 80% fewer pesticides and fertilizers and no irrigation, and its processing is mechanical and requires no water or solvents. Although they're not currently using any vegetable dyes, they are very excited about recent advances in Rubia, a dye made from madder roots (which have been used for dyeing for thousands of years), and plan to investigate working with it to produce an all-around eco-friendly eco friendly textile.

Manuel Pirez at Teviz, a Portuguese eco friendly textile group, showed us several examples of organic cotton eco friendly textile, ranging from very fine white pima to a soft and fuzzy flannel. "It's all market-driven," he said. "We started using organic because Patagonia asked for it." (Treehugger has featured Patagonia's organic t-shirts in the past.) "Now everyone wants it. Soon we'll be doing recycled polyester as well. The vegetable dyes currently available are in a limited range of colors and aren't very colorfast, so we don't use them, but we're keeping an eye on it." He pointed us to Organic Exchange, an excellent resource for anyone interested in organic cotton.

At a nearby booth, Veronique Renucci-Bel was also happy to display organic cotton wares in a similar range from French manufacturer Bel Maille. Both she and Pirez emphasized the need to choose between organic and fair trade, as the low-income growers who participate in fair trade programs can't afford to produce organic cotton. "Fair trade cotton is coarse," Renucci-Bel said flatly. "There's not much we can do with it. All the fair trade growers are in countries far away from our usual suppliers and our mills. Organic is more expensive, of course, but buyers are willing to pay higher prices for clothes made with it. We've definitely seen increased interest in Europe, and to a lesser extent in the U.S." She gave us a sheet explaining the Oeko-Tex Standard 100 for products that come in direct contact with skin, covering everything from raw materials to dyes, and showed off the compliance labels on Bel Maille's organic products. It was clear that we weren't the first to ask these questions.

Japanese manufacturers are also getting eco friendly textile into the act. Showa has a 100% organic cotton line available only in Japan; they use up to 30% organic in the fabrics they make for the U.S. and Europe, and are researching organic dyes. Yoko Tashiro in Katsu Kawasaki's booth showed us fabrics made from organic cotton and recycled polyester. The staff at Toki Sen-I scoffed when we asked whether they had an eco-friendly line: "There's not much demand for it," one said. We did notice, however, eco friendly textile that their booth was completely devoid of customers.

Many of the other booths Laurence had pointed eco friendly textile out to us were very busy with buyers, so we contented ourselves with flipping through samples. The venerable Fedora Lanificio (Italy) boasted a completely recycled line of wool clothing for men and women; Abraham Moon & Sons (England) also use recycled wool in their high-end men's clothing. It was clear that organic and recycled fibers were regarded as being of sufficiently high quality to use in just about any setting.

The trip certainly wasn't a waste; we're very eco friendly textile heartened to see so much interest in organics and recycling, and to know that more manufacturers are looking into vegetable dyes. We're looking forward to Material World New York in September and hope to have more good news from there. ::Premiere Vision New York; see also ::Where is the Organic Clothing Market Headed? eco friendly textile and ::many other clothing-related items on Treehugger

The future of the Thai eco friendly textile industry is likely to lie in functional and eco-friendly eco friendly textiles that fit with growing environmental awareness, said the Thailand eco friendly textile Institute.


Some examples of functional and ecofriendly clothes are displayed by the Thailand eco friendly textile Institute, which feels they are the future of the industry. SETlisted People’s Garment recently introduced the CoolMode fabric label, initiated by the Institute to encourage operators to produce environment-friendly fabrics.

"If we take a look at past consumption trends, consumers tended to look at design. However, nowadays they look at the overall function of clothing and whether it helps protect the environment," said THTI executive-director Virat Tandaechanurat.

"They [customers] want function, fashion and eeco friendly textile. Nowadays many people are crazy about the environment."

Natural fibres for commercial use that the institute has developed are now ready to be introduced to the market.

Under partial funding by the Office of Industrial Economics, the THTI has been researching functional eco friendly textile for commercial purposes since last year. This year, two of the fibres - banana fibre and coconut charcoal in polyester fibre - won the Design Excellence Award 2009.

Burnt coconut shells, when turned into activated carbon charcoal and mixed with polyester fibre, create a eco friendly textile with 1% moisture absorption that can resist up to 80% of bacteria.

Clothing made from eco friendly textile coconut charcoal fibres would improve wearers' comfort and reduce odour from bacteria in garments such as socks.

The innovative coconut eco friendly textile charcoal in polyester fibre was developed in only six months through a collaboration between the THTI and researchers from educational institutions and manufacturers such as TTL Industries Plc, Salee Colour Plc and Sunflag (Thailand) Ltd.

"Thailand has a lot of coconut shells lying around and people eco friendly textile do not benefit from them. We can make use of the carbon function," said Mr Virat.

The institute focuses on exploring materials that can replace widely used synthetic fibres made from chemical polyester.

"The eco friendly textile industry looks at benefits and functions as well, not only fashion. Therefore raw eco friendly textile material will play a very significant role. In the future, people will be asking whether this shirt causes harm to the environment," he said.

So-called functional eco friendly textile have eco friendly textile special properties due to fibre and fabric technologies. For example, eco friendly textile comfort, endurance and lack of odour are desirable in garments.

"In children's clothing, for instance, eco friendly textile people have been asking whether it is fireproof or not. Therefore, we, as manufacturers, eco friendly textile need to prepare and study the market closely," said Mr Virat.

SET-listed People's Garment recently introduced the CoolMode fabric label, initiated by the Thai eco friendly textile Institute to encourage operators to produce environment-friendly fabrics.

Thailand's pioneering of coconut charcoal in polyester fibre will encourage manufacturers to invest both in producing the fibre and clothing, he said.

The fibre is environment-friendly, as activated carbon from the process can be used in other industries, and polyester can be used as bioplastics in the future.

"This way, we will be using plants instead of petrochemicals," he said.

The new fibre could also offer cost savings. Thailand produces little natural fibre but imports almost 400,000 tonnes of cotton and silk per year at a cost of almost 50 billion baht. Ninety percent of cotton used in the country is imported, he said.

"Therefore if there are other fibres that can be used with them [cotton and silk], it will lower production costs," he said.

Of the 17 factories in Thailand producing synthetic fibres, 90% produce polyester.

The THTI also plans to develop natural fibres from plants such as hemp or kanchong.

"We have been in the right direction in our research over the past five years. We don't receive any money, but I consider it to boost the industry's competitiveness, since it will create product differentiation in the market," said Mr Virat.

"In the fashion industry, differentiation and variety are the most important components, but we also have to have a quick response to customers, which comes from a strong supply chain. This is then integrated with creating products that answer consumers' demands."

Till late sixties, eco friendly textile world was oblivious of the hazardous effects of eco friendly textile dyes on humans and the environment in general.

Then came the findings from the research laboratories in Germany that some of the eco friendly textile dyes were potentially harmful to the living species on earth.

On the basis of these findings Germany enacted law prohibiting manufacture, handling and usage of such eco friendly textile dyes.

These regulations aim at ensuring production and consumption of safe eco friendly textile in the regions where the laws are in force.

At Colourtex too, eco friendly textile we are aware and are committed to providing safe dyes as per the German legislation.

Well-equipped eco-laboratories managed by qualified and experienced personnel ensure that every product manufactured complies with the German ecological norms.

Environmental friendly fibers such as organic cotton and recycled polyester eco friendly textile have become popular among the fabrics and apparel manufacturers. However, eco friendly textile after these fabrics or the finished garments are manufactured, they have to be dyed in the same chemical dyes that are so harmful to the environment. Vegetable dyes, as an alternative are used sometimes, but in this type of dyeing too, certain chemicals such as copper sulphate and ferrous sulphate are used as catalysts. Thus, with eco friendly textile much research on individual and industrial levels, the concept of herbal eco friendly textile came into being.


The Concept of Herbal eco friendly textile

Herbal eco friendly textile is dyed entirely with herbal extractions, without using any sort of chemicals. The herbs used are different from vegetable dyes as they are not only natural but also have medicinal value. These herbs are applied directly to the fabric with the help of natural ingredients, so that the medicinal value of the herbs can be kept intact. No chemical process is adopted while dyeing. Even bleaching of cloth is done naturally by exposing it to sunlight. The herbs also do not pollute the environment through contamination of water eco friendly textile resources in areas close to processing units. All kinds of shades of red, yellow, brown, orange and green etc. can be prepared with the help of these herbs.