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• Economic Profile and Evaluation of Cotton Preparation—Water and Energy Consumption by Ozlenen Erdem Ismal (AATCC Review , April 2009). Cutting cotton wet processing expenses can help keep your business growing. Should you use enzymatic or traditional scouring?
• Environmental Friendliness: Zero Effluent Spun Yarn Slashing by T. Marty Ellis (Textile Chemist & Colorist, April 1996). Alternative practices may allow zero effluent spun sizing.
• Environmentally Friendly Scouring Processes by Moussa K. Traore and Gisela Buschle-Diller (Textile Chemist and Colorist & American Dyestuff Reporter, December 2000). Pectinases, xylanases, cellulases, and lipases were investigated in regard to their effectiveness in scouring.
• Enzymes are Everywhere by Chris Leonard (AATCC News, October 2007). Understand how and why enzymes are used throughout the textile industry.
• Enzymes in the Toolbox by Maria C. Thiry (AATCC Review, August 2001 Enzymes are moving from their "useful but limited" niche to become increasingly important tools in the wet-processing toolbox.
• Evaluation of Peracetic Acid as an Environmentally Safe Alternative for Hypochlorite by Norbert Steiner (Textile Chemist & Colorist, August 1995). Test conducted to study the efficacy of peracetic acid (PAA) as a replacement for sodium hypochlorite (NaOCI) in multistage bleaching processes of cotton and linen showed the PAA process to be less fiber damaging.
• Half-Dyed: The Importance of Preparation by Maria C. Thiry (AATCC Review, September 2008). Preparation is the most important step in the fabric dyeing process.
• New Slashing Technology Promises Big Benefits by Warren S. Perkins (Textile Chemist & Colorist, May 1999). AATCC’s recent Warp Sizing Symposium included coverage of basic principles of sizing and desizing as well as recent innovations in slashing.