The Global Textile and Clothing Industry: Technological Advances and Future Challenges (Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles) - Hardcover

Roshan Shishoo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845699394 ISBN 13: 9781845699390

Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

Advances in technology, combined with the ever-evolving needs of the global market, are having a strong impact on the textile and clothing sector. The global textile and clothing industry: Technological advances and future challenges provides an essential review of these changes, and considers their implications for future strategies concerning production and marketing of textile products.

Beginning with a review of trends in the global textile industry, the book goes on to consider the impact of environmental regulation on future textile products and processes. Following this, the importance of innovation-driven textile research and development, and the role of strategic technology roadmapping are highlighted. Both the present structure and future adaptation of higher education courses in textile science are reviewed, before recent advances in textile manufacturing technology, including joining techniques, 3D body scanning and garment design and explored in depth. Finally, The global textile and clothing industry concludes by considering automating textile preforming technology for the mass production of fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites.

With its distinguished editor and international team of expert contributors, The global textile and clothing industry: Technological advances and future challenges is an essential guide to key challenges and developments in this industrial sector.

• Comprehensively examines the implications of technological advancements and the evolving needs of the global market on the textile and clothing industry and considers their role on the future of textile manufacturing
• The importance of innovation-driven textile research and development and the role of strategic technology roadmapping are thoroughly investigated
• Recent advances in textile manufacturing technology, including joining techniques, 3D body scanning and garment design and explored in depth

About this title

About the Author:

Professor Roshan Shishoo is Director of Shishoo Consulting, Sweden, and former Director of the Swedish Institute for Polymers and Fibres (IFP). A Honorary Fellow of the Textile Institute, he has over 40 years' experience in textile research and development, and is an active member of many scientific organisations and committees.

About this edition

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1845699394
• ISBN 13: 9781845699390
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Roshan Shishoo