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• Webbing
  ...versatile component used in [[climbing]], [[slacklining]], [[furniture]] [[manufacturing]], [[automobile]] [[safety]], [[auto racing]], [[tow truck|towing]], [[para ...housands of shipping and trucking companies every day. The transportation industry is perhaps the largest user of high strength webbing in the world.
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• Textile processing
  {{mergeto|Textile manufacturing|date=October 2008}} ...portant industries related with [[textile manufacturing]] operations. This industry has a long history that begins with "Indigo dyeing" a natural color, derive
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• Straw plaiting
  ...s a method of manufacturing [[textile]]s by [[braid]]ing [[straw]] and the industry that surrounds the craft of producing these straw manufactures. Straw is p ...nce the beginning of the 17th century, the British home of the straw-plait industry. The straw of certain varieties of wheat cultivated in that region is, in f
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• Textile manufacturing by pre-industrial methods
  ...urrent industrial techniques, that is techniques used after 1850 | Textile manufacturing }} '''[[Textile manufacturing]]''' is one of the oldest human activities. The oldest known [[textile]]s
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• Yarn
  ...raft Yarn Council of America is making an effort to promote a standardized industry system for measuring this, numbering the weights from 1 (finest) to 6 (heav * [[Textile manufacturing]]
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• Textile
  ...ost beyond recognition by industrialization and the introduction of modern manufacturing techniques. However, for the main types of textiles, [[plain weave]], [[twi ...in various strengths and degrees of durability, from the finest [[Textile manufacturing terminology|gossamer]] to the sturdiest [[canvas]]. The relative thickness
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• Bamboo textiles
  The steps in the manufacturing of bamboo viscose are as follows: ...' a closed loop process captures and reclaims all the solvents used in the manufacturing, though this is ''not'' standard practice <ref name="scientificamerican.com
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• Textile recycling
  ...reprocessing used clothing, fibrous material and clothing scraps from the manufacturing process. Textiles in municipal solid waste are found mainly in discarded c ...also be compressed for mattress production. Textiles sent to the flocking industry are shredded to make filling material for car insulation, roofing felts, lo
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• History of clothing and textiles
  ...ic pillar of the Habsburg monarchy, largely on the strength of its textile industry."<ref>Dr. Wolf D. Fuhrig, "German Silesia: Doomed to Extinction," ''Heritag ...lphabet/a/loom_4.htm Spindel, Loom, and Needle] – History of the Textile Industry</ref>
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• Textile manufacturing
  ...rial Revolution|Hand processing techniques today and before 1750 | Textile manufacturing by pre-industrial methods}} ...ide ranges of products. There remains a large industry that uses [[Textile manufacturing by pre-industrial methods|hand techniques]] to achieve the same results.
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• Textiles of Mexico
  ...n states such as [[Mexico State]], [[Oaxaca]] and [[Chiapas]]. The textile industry remains important to the economy of Mexico although it has suffered setback ...ficult as the plant grows in the lowlands near the oceans and not near the manufacturing areas in the highlands, and transportation costs were high. Large cotton we
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• Timeline of clothing and textiles technology
  {{seealso|textile manufacturing}} *1814 – [[Paul Moody (inventor)|Paul Moody]] of the [[Boston Manufacturing Company]] builds the first power loom in the United States; beginnings of t
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• Lanolin
  ...rt period of time this ruling did a great deal of harm both to the lanolin industry and to the reputation of lanolin in general.<ref>I Steel, Lanolin Allergy: ...p://www.lanolin.com/home.html Lanolin.com - Comprehensive view on history, manufacturing and applications]
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• Cutting fluid
  ...rculate the fluid. This type of system is commonly employed, especially in manufacturing. It is often not a practical option for MRO or hobbyist metalcutting, where ...0s. They vary from the thick, dark, sulfur-rich cutting oils used in heavy industry to light, clear oils.
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• Automatic lubrication system
  Whether the equipment is stationary, such as in a [[manufacturing facility]] or mobile such as [[truck]]s, [[mining]] or [[construction equip The first single-line parallel system for industry was introduced in 1937 by [[Lincoln Industrial Corporation|Lincoln Engineer
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• Seed bead
  Before World War II, there was a thriving bead industry centered in eastern Europe, especially in Czechoslovakia, which was then kn ...machinery uses glass rods softened to a red heat, fed into a steel [[Die (manufacturing)|die]] stamp that forms the shape of the bead with a reciprocating needle t
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• Tissue paper
  ==The Industry== In Europe, the industry is represented by The European Tissue Symposium (ETS), a trade association.
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• Vinyl siding
  ...o [[polyvinyl chloride#Dioxins|environmental concerns]] in the processing, manufacturing, and disposal of the product.<ref name="Should We Phase Out PVC">[http://ww ...market in the late 1950s. It was first produced by an independently-owned manufacturing plant in Columbus, Ohio. The process was originally done through mono-extru
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• Siding
  ...in Chicago. His operations were curtailed when war plants commandeered the industry. In 1946 Hoess allied with Metal Building Products of Detroit, a corporatio ...impact of composite sidings depends on the specific materials used in the manufacturing process.
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• Cellulose insulation
  ...nsulation)|R-value]] Rule,” placing clear limitations on the claims that manufacturing and marketing firms can make about their product. The fiberglass industry meanwhile benefited from most of the regulations passed by the federal gove
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