Amalgamation Of Metal Containers With Rfid Technology

A combination of asset acquisition and management services with technology and RFID facilitates to discover and eliminate the hidden costs of supply chain which includes assets, transportation costs, finished goods, product waste and inventory.

How Plastic Corrugated Returnable Packaging Can Protect Your Shipments In The Winter Months

With the winter months right around the corner, now is a great time to protect your products using water resistant, strong, and durable plastic corrugated returnable packaging in place of expendable paper corrugated containers.

RFID In Retail Industry

Advanced technologies are being developed in the field of RFID tags that are more advanced technologically and are of reduced costs. Generally the cost of RFID tags range from twenty cents to one dollar which is not so reasonable cost. Therefore in order to make it cheaper, the prices are required to fall to five cents instead of twenty cents.

Editorial: IRMCO Event Showcases a Winning Workplace

Winning Workplaces Chairman Ken Lehman discusses what took place at our October open house at IRMCO, one of the last remaining manufacturing businesses in our local community.

Coir: Coconut Fibre

Coir fibers are water-proof in nature, also to the sea water, which is a distinguishable property. Coir are mainly of two types - white coir and brown coir. For processing of white coir both sea and fresh water is used, whereas for brown coir fresh water is used.

Turmeric Dyeing of Silk Fabric

The natural dyes are eco-friendly, harmless and non-toxic in nature. Also, the usage of renewable sources of energy in textile and apparel industry has been increased due to many advantages associated with it. Solar energy usage for dyeing purpose is a cost effective method.

Gold Uses in Industry

A knowledge of the commercial uses of gold enables a savvy investor to make a judgement on the future demand for the metal and in conjunction with other criteria such as the erosion of the purchasing power of a currency, political factors, gold hoarding or selling off by governments, the technical picture, etc.etc., can make the decision to be long, short or stay out of the market until a more favorable opportunity occurs

Power of Bt Cotton

Bt cotton is spreading very rapidly, driven by farmers' demand for technology that will reduce the costs of pesticide application and exposure to pesticides, and will allow them to use their time more profitably. They have been able to increase their yield per ha, and reduce pesticide costs, the time spent spraying dangerous pesticides, and the number of incidences of pesticide poisoning.

RFID: The New Technology

RFID is an all-encompassing expression for technologies that employ radio waves to recognize people or objects automatically. After storing a serial number or other identification data on the chip connected to an antenna, user can use a reader to receive radio waves from the chip and convert the signal into digital information, which can be passed over to computers and be used of.

Indian Textile Machinery Industry

Today, Indian industry is extremely fragmented. In the organized spinning sector there are nearly 2300 players with 280 composite mills, There are 1000 weaving units and around 1,45,000 independent processing units and innumerable garment makers. The position of machinery technology is not well apart from the spinning sector. Nearly 100000 modern shuttleless looms are needed to set up and to satisfy the target by 2010. Processing sector will also require big amount of up-gradation. It is calculated that a total investment of 35 billion dollar might be needed to achieve the growth intended by ICMF.

Agro Textiles: A Novel Application

The practice of textiles is also now widen to safeguard the agro products like plants, vegetables and fruits from weather, weed and birds, etc, by method of agro textiles which has provided a novel applications to technical textiles.

Dyestuff Industry In India And China

Textile dyes have been used since the Bronze Age. They also constitute a prototype 21st-century specialty chemicals market. Three large manufacturers namely DyStar, Ciba Specialty Chemicals and Clariant are leaders in the dyes market. The biggest, DyStar, was established in a series of mergers of some of Europe's leading textile dye businesses in the 1990s. Worldwide excess capacity and price burden, fueled by the immediate growth of Asian manufacturers, have shifted most dyestuff chemistries into commodities. Regulatory barriers have nearly stopped the progress of the opening of fundamentally new dyestuffs. Despite this DyStar, Ciba Specialty Chemicals and Clariant have grown over the past 10 years with innovative products and new chemistry is being set to endure reactive and dispersant dyes as well as in older dyestuffs such as sulfur dyes.

When Designing Custom Dunnage Here Are the Top 10 Questions to Ask Yourself

Here are the Top 10 things you absolutely need to know when considering custom dunnage for shipping your products. Ship with confidence having this knowledge!