Developments in Textile Continuous
Processing Machineries
Kedar S. Kulkarni and Ravindra Adivarekar
Abstract In the last century, due to increased industrialization, textile industry has
undergone huge changes from technical as well as technological aspects. Particularly textile wet processing machineries have experienced tremendous improvements. From earlier mechanical machines, it has advanced to today’s ultra-modern
machines which are controlled by electronic components. In this chapter, we have
covered commonly used continuous wet processing machineries in the textile industry primarily to process woven fabrics. These machines are explained by detailing
various sections and accessories used by different machine manufacturers. The explanations are based on actual work experience and knowledge accumulated during the
industrial tenure.
Keywords Wet processing · Continuous machineries · Semi continuous
processing · Batch processing
1 Introduction
Textile is considered as one of the necessities of humankind, second only to food.
Recorded history of textiles can date back to as early as 6000 years ago. However,
industrialisation of textiles production was started only in the nineteenth century.
Improvement in technology changed the customer demands and to fulfil these
demands there was lot of research and it resulted in advancement of technologies.
During same time, lot of other areas were also improved drastically, and these opened
a vast new avenue where textiles could find applications. Some of the examples are,
automotive industry, aviation industry, space technology, military applications etc.
Textile wet processing is most important link in the textile supply chain management. Typically, wet processing consists of pre-treatment, coloration and finishing of
textiles. These operations can be carried out by means of discontinuous, continuous
and semi-continuous systems.
K. S. Kulkarni (B) · R. Adivarekar
Department of Fibres and Textile Processing Technology, Institute of Chemical Technology,
Mumbai 400019, India
e-mail: ks.kulkarni@ictmumbai.edu.in
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
M. Shahid and R. Adivarekar (eds.), Advances in Functional Finishing of Textiles, Textile
Science and Clothing Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3669-4_15
349
Processing Machineries
Kedar S. Kulkarni and Ravindra Adivarekar
Abstract In the last century, due to increased industrialization, textile industry has
undergone huge changes from technical as well as technological aspects. Particularly textile wet processing machineries have experienced tremendous improvements. From earlier mechanical machines, it has advanced to today’s ultra-modern
machines which are controlled by electronic components. In this chapter, we have
covered commonly used continuous wet processing machineries in the textile industry primarily to process woven fabrics. These machines are explained by detailing
various sections and accessories used by different machine manufacturers. The explanations are based on actual work experience and knowledge accumulated during the
industrial tenure.
Keywords Wet processing · Continuous machineries · Semi continuous
processing · Batch processing
1 Introduction
Textile is considered as one of the necessities of humankind, second only to food.
Recorded history of textiles can date back to as early as 6000 years ago. However,
industrialisation of textiles production was started only in the nineteenth century.
Improvement in technology changed the customer demands and to fulfil these
demands there was lot of research and it resulted in advancement of technologies.
During same time, lot of other areas were also improved drastically, and these opened
a vast new avenue where textiles could find applications. Some of the examples are,
automotive industry, aviation industry, space technology, military applications etc.
Textile wet processing is most important link in the textile supply chain management. Typically, wet processing consists of pre-treatment, coloration and finishing of
textiles. These operations can be carried out by means of discontinuous, continuous
and semi-continuous systems.
K. S. Kulkarni (B) · R. Adivarekar
Department of Fibres and Textile Processing Technology, Institute of Chemical Technology,
Mumbai 400019, India
e-mail: ks.kulkarni@ictmumbai.edu.in
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
M. Shahid and R. Adivarekar (eds.), Advances in Functional Finishing of Textiles, Textile
Science and Clothing Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3669-4_15
349