The present study aims at reviewing researches conducted in the area of determinants of and factors affecting the export performance of textile industry. The tools used by the various researchers and their findings are studied in order to establish the academic contributions made by these studies to the existing body of knowledge, new models developed and also to highlight method adopted or sug...

Today’s textile industrial complex is characterized by a multitude of conflicting demands: increased product flexibility, higher product quality and decreasing delivery times. To operate successfully in such a demanding and highly competitive global market, textile industry must deploy the state-of-the-art manufacturing and information management techniques. This paper outlines the construction...

During textile manufacturing processing, it is vital to inspect, detect, assess and rectify defects as soon as they emerge. This is particularly important for fabric engineering and finishing, as the fabric quality directly affects the quality of their final products. In textile industry history, visual inspection and classification were common practice. The nature of traditional manual inspect...

Does trade liberalization foster total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the manufacturing sector? Does sectoral trade orientation determine sectoral TFP levels and growth rates? These questions are addressed using pooled pre-and post-liberalization panel data from Cameroonian firms of eight manufacturing industries. A single production function for the whole manufacturing sector is estimated...

BACKGROUND The textile industry is one of the largest employers in Lithuania. IARC monograph concludes that working in the textile manufacturing industry entails exposures that are possibly carcinogenic to humans. The purpose of this study was to investigate risk of lung cancer incidence in textile industry workers by the type of job and evaluate the relation between occupational textile dusts ...

Textile manufacturing is a major industry in India. It is based on the conversion of three types of fibre into yarn which in turn is woven into fabrics. Fabrics are textile materials which are made through weaving ,knitting, braiding and bonding of fibres. Weaving is described as inter-lacing of two distinct set of threads to form cloth, rug or other type of woven textile. The lengthways thread...

Generating effective employment opportunities is one of the principal challenges faced by development planners in Iran. If investment projects are undertaken on the basis of sectoral priorities in production and employment, the economic and social problems emanating from unemployment will be reduced, helping the Country’s process of development. In this paper, an attempt is made to identify key...

ZHIYUAN YANG, YANJUN TANG , JUNHUA ZHANG Key Laboratory of Advanced Textile Materials and Manufacturing Technology, Ministry of Education, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, China State Key Lab of Pulp and Paper Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China Engineering Research Center for Eco-Dyeing & Finishing of Textiles, Ministry of Education, Zheji...

Sales demand forecasting is an important issue for manufacturing companies. Indeed, such forecasting is decisive in the management of the production systems. This work compares the performance of an Artificial Neural Network to traditional methods in forecasting the sales demand in a textile factory over a reduced data set.