miércoles, 27 de julio de 2016

Textile Industry : One alternative to generate value


Emerging countries understand the need to compete in the world market , however is necessary to recognize the strengths and weaknesses.   

Export commodities represent the highest percentage of budget composition in many countries. Those resources sustain the incomes of a nation. The problem is those activities do not add value in their processes.

It's evident,  row materials are only the components to produce a product which offer more benefits to customer and generate significant revenues.

Previously , it is important to say that a country should establish what are their potential activities  and look for alternatives to improve the process and final product.

In this case I speak about Textile and Sewing Industry as a different way to generate value.

The question is:  what is the primary resource for this industry?

Textile fiber

  









The fiber can be natural or synthetic.



Cotton is a natural fiber obtained of vegetables and it is used to in the production of clothes.
Vegetables fibers can be dyed with colorants. 






Wool is another natural fiber obtained of animals like sheep , alpaca , vicuna ,etc.




  


Synthetic fiber:
All fibers produced by the industry like nylon, lycra and others.









The fibers are processed in machines to obtain yarns.  There are different kind of yarn that depend of the process. One example is the combed yarn.







Yarn is the row material to produce fabric. There are two kinds of fabric:

- Plain weave
- knitting

Plain weave

Kind of Fabric that is used to produce jeans, sport clothes, curtains.







Processes to produce a Plain weave (Summary)



- To produce this kind of fabric is necessary to prepare the warp roll  in the warper.











- The yarns are hardier than before thanks to the gummed process.

- Finally ,  Loom machine produces the plain weave.