Textiles and clothing

E. J. Rizzo, Electrostatic Phenomena in Textiles and Clothing Systems, U.S. Army Natick Laboratories, Natick, Mass., Oct. 1973. 

Where the process is a labor intensive, low-cost workers are required in numbers (for example, textiles and clothing). The cost of capital has little effect on the choice of location as capital sources can be from anywhere. The ability, however, to repatriate profits and the proceeds from the sales of assets and exposure to foreign exchange risk are important if the location options are abroad. This factor becomes more relevant, the greater the capital intensity of the project. 

The Oeko-Tex Standard 100 [10] was introduced in the beginning of the 1990s. It was developed by the Austrian Textile Research Institute (OTI) and the German Research Institute Hohenstein and is a product label based on test for harmful substances in leather (or textiles), and the primary target group is the textile and clothing industry. 

Some empirical research also includes a variable assumed to reflect the size of the country or its domestic market. The results are not uniform for countries and branches, but two studies identify a significant correlation between scale and trade performance for the car industry, among others (Fagerberg, 1995 Soete, 1981). With regard to the importance of price competition, the evidence is less clear cut. As might be expected, price competition seems to be important in many low-tech industries (e.g., textiles and clothes). The investment variable measured per worker fails to have a significant impact in all but a few cases. 

Heat storage and thermo-regulated textiles and clothing... 

Nordas HK (2004) The Global Textile and Clothing Industry post the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing. World Trade Organization Discussion Paper 5... 

China accounts for thirteen percent of the world chemical market, with sales of EUR 141 billion. Consumption is expected to grow at between eight and nine percent per annum over the next ten years - already substantially lower than in the relatively recent past (Fig. 32.1). Consumption growth is driven mainly by textile and clothing end-user industries, followed by automotive, electronic goods, and industrial machinery. By 2015, the Chinese market will have a volume of more than EUR 370 billion and account for more than a fifth of the world s market share. In other words, it will be on a par with the US or Western European markets. 

Division of Textiles and Clothing, University of California, Davis, CA 95616... 

Meredith Montague, Assistant Conservator, Materials Conservation Laboratory, Texas Memorial Museum, carried out the replication of the experiments done with the vacuum suction table, and completed the treatment of the unnumbered tapa from the University s Department of Textiles and Clothing. 

Crowfoot, E., Pritchard, F., and Staniland, K. (2006). Textiles and Clothing, c. 1150-c. 1450 Medieval Finds from Excavations in London. London Boydell Press. 

USDA, SEA Textiles and Clothing Laboratory, 1303 W. Cumberland Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37916... 

Department of Textiles and Clothing, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210... 

Sibley, L. R. Korslund, L. Rowlett, R. M. In Combined Proceedings, Association of College Professors of Textiles and Clothing Brigham Young University Press Salt Lake City, 1978 pp. 94-95. 

Brinton LA, Blot WJ, Fraumeni JFJ. 1985. Nasal cancer in the textile and clothing industries. BrJInd Med 42 469-474. 

Niinimaki, K., Hassi, L., 2011. Emerging design strategies in sustainable production and consumption of textiles and clothing. Journal of Cleaner Production 19 (16), 1876—1883. 

The global textile and clothing industry Technological advances and future challenges... 

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