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- Title
Flame retardant wool based fabrics for Home Textile and Automobile Interiors.
- Authors
Basuk, M.; Bahuguni, R. S.
- Abstract
The textile industry has undergone a major re-orientation towards non apparel applications for example interior textiles. Specialty fabrics account for 40% of the global production and consumption of textiles are growing at the rate of 4% annually. The safety conscious people paved the way for development of flame retardant fabrics which do not catch fire quickly and even when ignited fire will not spread due to self extinguishing property of these textiles. Commonly used flame retardant fibres are Kevlar, Basofil, Nomex, Kynol, F.R. polyester, F.R. Viscose, Kanecaron (Modacrylic), F.R. Acrylic, Trevira, Glass fibre, etc. This paper is a research work on the development of wool based interior textiles as wool which is a natural protein fibre and has flame retardant property having limiting oxygen index (LOI) 25 and can be blended well with inherently flame retardant fibres. Currently use of wool in interior textiles is limited so the objective is to increase consumption of wool in interiors. Interior fabrics were developed using homogeneous yarn on ring spinning system.
- Subjects
WOOL textiles; FIREPROOFING agents; TEXTILE industry; HOUSEHOLD linens; AUTOMOBILE interiors; AUTOMOTIVE materials
- Publication
Man-Made Textiles in India, 2012, Vol 40, Issue 6, p189
- ISSN
0377-7537
- Publication type
Article