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Sustainable Finishing Process Using Natural Ingredients

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Sustainability in the Textile and Apparel Industries

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Textile finishing is an important process for improving the value of the textile products, and many finishing processes involve hazard chemicals and auxiliaries. With growing awareness on environmental problems, both manufacturers and consumers expect sustainable solutions in the entire supply chain, wherever possible. Needless to state that the textile manufacturers are also seeking sustainable finishing solutions and processes using natural and safe ingredients for providing value addition. Advanced finishing processes like encapsulation methods and plasma treatments improve the sustainability by increasing the affinity and durability of the processes. In this chapter, sustainable preparatory processes, finishing practices for flame-retardant finish based on bio-based flame retardants, antimicrobial finish, bio-finish and UV protection finish have been discussed.

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  1. Department of Textile Technology, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India

    M. Gobalakrishnan

  2. Department of Textile Technology, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

    D. Saravanan

  3. Department of Fashion Technology, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India

    Subrata Das

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Gobalakrishnan, M., Saravanan, D., Das, S. (2020). Sustainable Finishing Process Using Natural Ingredients. In: Muthu, S., Gardetti, M. (eds) Sustainability in the Textile and Apparel Industries . Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38545-3_5

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