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Textile Chemicals

Environmental Data and Facts

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  • © 2004

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Authors:
  1. Katia Lacasse

    1. Institut für Umweltforschung (INFU), Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

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  2. Werner Baumann

    1. Institut für Umweltforschung (INFU), Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

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  • Up-to-date overview on approx. 2.500 chemicals used in textile industry, on their fields of application and their function in textile production and finishing processes

  • All important data, including toxicology, eco-toxicology and environmental data are represented in data sheets

  • In addition an overview on the processes and important governmental regulations is given

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXVI
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  2. General information

    • Katia Lacasse, Werner Baumann
    Pages 1-4

  3. Legal regulations

    • Katia Lacasse, Werner Baumann
    Pages 5-69

  4. The textile chain (from raw materials to finished goods)

    • Katia Lacasse, Werner Baumann
    Pages 70-83

  5. Pretreatment

    • Katia Lacasse, Werner Baumann
    Pages 84-155

  6. Colouring

    • Katia Lacasse, Werner Baumann
    Pages 156-372

  7. Finishing

    • Katia Lacasse, Werner Baumann
    Pages 373-483

  8. Environmental considerations for textile processes and chemicals

    • Katia Lacasse, Werner Baumann
    Pages 484-647

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 648-1180
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About this book

Clothing is an inherent necessity for human beings. Textiles protect us from unfavourable weather and other environmental calamities. Moreover, textiles are instruments of social and cul­ tural affiliation and self-acceptance while at the same time fulfiling our desire for individuality. These reasons motivated textile development that results in ever more sophisticated dothing in all ethnic societies today. Fashion becomes something like body language, a "second skin" that accentuates style and rank, sex and power, or their opposites. In our modem society, fashion attains a new dimension as synthetic fibres are manufactured and new chemical finishing treatments developed. Considering the wool of a sheep and an end­ fashioned pullover, it is evident that, in course of time, textiles have become "complicated"! Trying to answer the question "how does the sheep fibre become the pullover" is simultaneously the an­ swerof "what is textile finishing". Almost 2500 different chemicals can be used to colour and prepare a certain fibre in such a way that it will be able to fulfil modem functionalized requirements such as having easy-care proper­ ties, etc.

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"The extensive book … is based on a study by the Institute for Environmental Research of the University of Dortmund … . It gives an extensive overview of environmentally relevant data through the entire textile pipeline, in which over 2,500 chemicals are initiated worldwide. … The book is supplemented by an alphabetical list of textile chemicals, the eco-labels and their scope of testing, as well as an extensive table of textile chemicals … their function in the textile process, their application and further references." (Technische Textilien, Vol. 47 (2), 2004)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Umweltforschung (INFU), Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Katia Lacasse, Werner Baumann

About the authors

Werner Baumann: Verfahrenstechniker, langjährige Arbeit im Bereich ökologische Branchenkonzepte; zahlreiche Buchpublikationen im Springer-Verlag z.B. zur Druck-, Farben- Gummi-, Metall-, Papier oder Fotobranche; Gutachter in verschiedenen Bereichen
Katia Lacasse: Diplom-Chemikerin, die Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind: Textilchemie, Verfahren der Textilveredelung, Produkt- und Stoffbewertungen (Toxikologie, Ökologie, Arbeitsschutz, Verbrau-cherschutz), Produktverantwortung

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