HECOL370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Twill, Colour Fastness, Bioaccumulation
13 Jul 2018
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Doubletex headquartered in montreal family business, founded in 1910 as toronto quilting and embroidery, ltd. Fashion and uniform fabrics, quilting, and lamination conversion mill purchase greige woven in canada, us or overseas prepare - de-size, scour, bleach, mercerize dye, apply nishes, laminate and quilt. Government procurement purchases over ,000 cad must be advertised publicly companies submit buds to win contracts applies to both goods and services used by federal, provincial, municipal governments universities and other public institutions. C6 fluorocarbons & restrictions placed by the us environmental protection agency (epa) due to concerns over persistence, bioaccumulation and toxicity (epa, 2014) C6 fluorocarbons & polymer-based nishes per uorohexanoic acid to reduce environmental impact polymer-based uorine-free nishes are used, but do not match the performance of conventional treatments (bahners et al. , 2008) Pfc-free alternatives paraf n wax silicone stearic acid-melamine polyurethane companies seem to be reporting laundering durability and little else generally aren"t oil-repellent absorb more water than uorine based nishes.
