Dyeing, Bleaching and Integrated Textile Processing Sector

Raw materials used in textile manufacturing include natural fibers(organic or inorganic), different chemicals and other utilities such as water, energy and labour.

The textile energy uses two general category of fiber. Natural fibers and manmade fibers.

Natural fibers may be organic or inorganic in nature. Organic natural fibers may be of two types vegetable fibers such as cotton, flax, hemp, jute, sisal, broom and animal fibers such as wool, silk, etc. Natural inorganic fibres are mineral fibers such as basalt and asbestos.

Man-made fibers are broadly classified as organic regenerated natural fibers like regenerated cellulose, viscose, cupro, cellulose acetate, cellulose triacetate, organic synthetic polymers and inorganic fibers like glass, carbon.