New concepts in eco-friendly processing

Now-a-days more and more textile and chemieal companies are optimizing their corporate social responsibility (CSR) codes by producing green textiles. Among such chemical companies, DuPont is one such example of a successful CSR firm. Earlier it was relying heavily on fossil fuels to make paint, plastics and polymers. In the 1990s, it emphasized on its R D activities and created products such as nylon the company decided to spend billions of dollars on developing safe, environment-friendly products. 

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-fiiendly textile and apparel goods from environment-conscious manufacturers. 

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

Some efforts are being made to eliminate water, utilizing liquid CO as the medium to cany dyes, pigments and more. Dr Cook said research was currently underway at Georgia Tech with nano dots. These extremely small metal particles are about 10-9 m in size, which makes the particles about the 

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