In the last two decades, laccases have received much attention from researchers because of their specific ability to oxidize lignin. This function of laccase is very useful for applications in several biotechnological processes, including delignification in the pulp and paper industry and the detoxification of industrial effluents from the textile and petrochemical industries. This review focus...

This paper presents a hybrid backward scheduling method, referred to as HBS, which mainly addresses discrete manufacturing environments. It operates under the framework of hierarchical finite capacity shop floor modelling and discrete event simulation. HBS applies a set of transformation relations in order to convert a finite capacity forward scheduling method (FS) that can employ different ass...

Green production has become an important factor in recent years influencing the sustainability of the manufacturing sector. With increasing concern toward environmental protection, it has been found from the literature that the Green Supplier Selection is one of the approaches in solving environmental related issues. Supplier selection is a multi-criteria decision making problem involving both ...

A new additive manufacturing technology for industrial mass production of footwear, apparel and accessories branded as “Haptic” will be introduced. Applying traditional non-digital screen printing technology for additive manufacturing, a totally new approach of footwear manufacturing was implemented successfully in 2015 at Huafeng Textile Group in China. Production was scaled up from zero to 50...

Cohort studies in three American asbestos factories were undertaken to investigate the effect of fibre type and manufacturing process on lung cancer, mesothelioma, and asbestosis. Reports have been published on a chrysotile textile plant in South Carolina and a mainly textile plant in Pennsylvania, which also used amphiboles. In the third plant in Connecticut friction products and packings were...

The vast bodies of studies in the word and recently in Iran have attempted to investigate the manufacturing industry structure (indicating the level of industries in terms of monopoly or competitiveness) and its trend using the various indices and methods. Despite the importance of Lorenz Curve and Gini Coefficient in indicating the market structure, these methods, capabilities have been neglec...

Correction for ‘Scalable manufacturing of a durable, tailorable, and recyclable multifunctional woven thermoelectric textile system’ by Yuanyuan Jing et al. , Energy Environ. Sci. 2023, https://doi.org/10.1039/d3ee01031g.

The textile industry is the most important sector in Pakistan’s economy. Based on the availability of raw cotton, the industry provides the largest employment (38% of the total employment) and is also its largest foreign exchange earner. It contributes 68% of total exports, 46% of total manufacturing, 8.5% of total GDP, 31% of total investment and 12% of total market capitalization. Over the ye...