Developments in textile machinery for ecofriendly chemical processing

Textile machinery play an important rule in indirectly controlling the pollution load for environment protection. Energy saving, reduced liquor-to-material ratio, counter current liquor flow for washing and use of microprocessor controls are some of the features incorporated in the present generation machines. These features help in reducing the generation of flue gases in boiler, allow to use reduced quantities of chemicals, produce reduced volumes of effluents and give better performance of machinery, resulting in reduced re-processing. Some of the developments in textile machinery covering these aspects are briefly highlighted.