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Issue: Mar-Apr , 2010

A New Era of Knowledge Based Textile-Garment Community Starts

Review of International Conference on Textile & Apparel 2010, Dhaka, Bangladesh First ever international conference on textile and apparel in Bangladesh has been held in Dhaka with grand success. Country's leading textile garment magazine and the mouthpiece of the sector at the local and international arena, Bangladesh Textile Today was the organizer of the event. The theme of the conference was recent development and challenges of textile and apparel industry. The conference was anchored to Spread the light of knowledge and enlighten the society to achieve goals from the power of it to build the knowledge based textile community for which Bangladesh Textile Today has been working on with the patronizing company Amin & Jahan Corporation. The conference was in association with The Textile Institute, UK; Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA) and College of Textile Technology. Amin & Jahan Corporation comes up with integrated service of research, development and promotion for the industry. To encourage research, to gather knowledge and disseminate for the development of the sector, promoting research and development are being integrated with building and organizing an international forum over here in Bangladesh. Two days long 1st International Conference on Textile and Apparel (ICTA-2010) was opened in the city with this theme on 29th January 2010. The organizer Bangladesh Textile Today steps into a new stair to reach to its ultimate target to build knowledge based textile-garment community. In this junction of recession hit global economy and tremendous export market opportunity such conference will help the industry to sustain and will also give a way of achieving sustainable growth. Professionals, experts, consultants, entrepreneurs and executives from home and abroad gathered here to share and acquire knowledge. The Forum to Build Knowledge based Textile Garment Community Two days long conference was designed with series of seminars on various topics to cover most important parts of the long chain of textile and apparel in the light of the modern development and recent challenges for the industry. Before the conference Bangladesh Textile Today was anchoring another grand program named Textile Talent Hunt 2009. Textile Garment graduate students from all renowned universities and institutes took part in the competition to be one of the talents of the year. After passing four consecutive steps of competition the jury board nally came up with the best ve students. Before the ofcial opening of the conference those best ve students fought for securing their position and the program was the 'Grand Finale' of Textile Talent Hunt 2009. Immediately after the grand nale the onsite registration booth was open for conference registration. The grand event nally started with a brief opening ceremony. In the day one two technical sessions was placed, one is to focus the recent developments and another one was focusing the challenges for the industry. Day one was closed with the gala dinner and unofcial discussions. The 30th January was the second day and so the concluding day of the conference which was started at the morning with technical session mainly focusing the environment and similar challenges. After the lunch another two technical sessions was there. At the evening the conference nally reached to successful closing. Bangladesh Textile Today made the platform as (International Conference on Textile and Apparel) ICTA 2010 closing and (Textile Talent Hunt) TTH 2009 award giving ceremony. At this occasion the conference declared closed and the awards was handed over to the textile talents of the year. ICTA'10 Opening Ceremony The Forum of Knowledge Sharing; a need of Time At the grand moment of opening a new era of knowledge sharing by wrapping up the 1st International Conference on Textile and Apparel ICTA 2010, the conference hall became full of academics, professionals, textile-garment entrepreneurs, owners, government body representative, trade body representatives and students from home and abroad. The opening ceremony was being chaired by the chairman of the ICTA 2010 conference committee and editor in chief of Bangladesh Textile Today, Mr. Monirul Islam. Honorable chairman of Bangladesh Textile Mills Association Mr. Abdul Hai Sarker was gracing the occasion as chief guest while Prof. Dr, Nitai Chandra Sutradhar, Director General of Directorate of Technical Education and Prof. Md. Mashud Ahmed, Principal, College of

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Textile Technology were present as special guests. Another co organizer representative Mr. John T. Smith, Chairman, International Event, Textile Institute was the guest of honor. In his speech, chief guest Mr. Hai highly praised the initiative of Bangladesh Textile Today and expressed that such program will help Bangladeshi people to achieve the excellence in their respective eld. Some pictures of the opening ceremony are listed below:

Technical Session 1: Recent Developments in Textile & Apparel-1

The rst technical session of the conference was being moderated by Prof. Dr. Nitai Chandra Sutradhar, Director General, Directorate of Technical Education, GOB. During the technical session one we got on the stage Engr. Mr. Ehsanul Karim Kaiser, CEO, Esquire Group (Textle Division) and Engr. Mr. Mahbub-E-Robbani, Textile Expert while conference committee chairman Mr. Monirul Islam was present on the dias. Focus of this session was to the recent developments done in the textile research arena. In this session three papers have been presented.

Three-Dimensional Nonwoven Fabrics and their Applications Professor Subhash Anand MBE, The University of Bolton, Bolton, UK The council chairman of The Textile Institute, Manchester, UK and Professor of Centre for Materials Research and Innovation of The University of Bolton is in deed the number one scientist of technical textiles having number of inventions and patents. Prof. Anand said that the world nonwovens market has more than doubled in the last 10 years, from 3.19 million tonnes in 1999 to 6.32 million tonnes in 2009. It was US$22.4 billion in value in 2009 and 2.67 kg per capita annual consumption in Europe. In his paper he discusses recent advances in 3D nonwoven technologies and products and demonstrates that nonwovens are the most exciting and expanding market worldwide and make a crucial contribution in the enhancement of quality of life in the modern world today and in the foreseeable future. He elaborately described the nonwoven manufacturing technologies and also nicely shown the growing trends of nonwoven use. He informed that total bre used in traditional textiles is being out paced by the total bre use of nonwoven sector. For the traditional textiles bre consumption growth rate is 3% per year while technical textiles bre consumption is increasing by 7% per year. Professor Anand demonstrated the three dimensional web formation techniques in the modern kunit and multiknit stitch bonding machines. He explained the properties of those fabrics with the added features for special applications.

Bamboo: A Distinctive Green Fibre T.Afrin, Deakin University, Australia Ms. Tarannum Afrin is a PhD candidate from Centre for Material and Fibre Innovation of Deakin University, Australia. Her research is being

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conducted by the supervision of two professors T. Tsuzuki and X.Wang of the same university. Her research signies to Morphology of bamboo, Crystalline behaviour of bamboo, Chemical structure of bamboo, UV shielding characteristics of bamboo and Antimicrobial activity of bamboo. It is bamboo because in all aspect of their research they are very strict to be Green always and as bamboo possesses natural antimicrobial and UV shielding ability and the wearers experience instant moisture absorption and evaporation. The research came up with the following points; Bamboo possesses micro gaps like capillary and cellulose I crystalline structure, Conventional degumming (removing lignin) is not an effective manufacturing process to retain the unique properties of raw bamboo in textile bres, Both raw bamboo and extractions have shown a UV shielding ability, particularly in the UVB region, Bamboo possesses natural antimicrobial properties but the active component is not water soluble. Ms. Afrin is undergoing with many more issues of bamboo and some other could not be explored fully as the research is in a patent. Enzyme- A tool towards more sustainable Textile Processing Mr. Madhuakar Kulkarni, Business Head, Textile Enzyme- India, Bangladesh and Srilanka. Genencor. Mr. Kulkarni started with a short review on Genencor, which is nally partnered with a large company Denisco. Genencor has 25+ years of a leadership history in the area of industrial biotechnology. It has a portfolio of over 250 products delivered globally and involved in Grain Processing, Cleaning, Textiles & Leather, Food, Animal Nutrition & Biofuels. The company has employees over 1,200 globally. Afterwards he focused on the sustainable environment friendly solutions from Genencor for the wet processing industry.

Technical Session 2: Recent Challenges for the Textile and Apparel Industry-1 The Technical Session 2 was being moderated by Prof. Dr. Engr. Ayub Nabi Khan, Executive Editor, Bangladesh Textile Today while Mr. Monirul Islam, Chairman, Conference Committee was in the chair of the session. In the session we found Dr. Saifur Rahman, Technical Editor, Bangladesh Textile Today and Dr. Md. Humaun Kabir, Technical Editor, Bangladesh Textile Today on the stage. After the session a vivid question and answer session was held.

Global Warming & Crisis of Gas in Bangladesh: Energy Saving Measures and Other Effective Tools that can Help in Sustainable Growth of Our Textile and Other Industries. Engr. Asif Muhammad Sami, Textile Consultant, CEO, Euroasiatic Resources and Chairman, SS Vision Famous textile consultant Engr. Asif Muhammad Sami has established number of dye houses in Bangladesh. From his experience and work he tried to solve out the biggest problem of Bangladeshi industry, gas crisis. He also focused to the global warming issues and also showed that how Bangladesh can enter into carbon trading market. Mr. Sami informed that carbon trading industry is estimated to reach to USD 100 billion by 2012. A thorough analysis of energy sources and their comparative study have been put forward. He suggested number of ways of energy saving in the wet processing industry to cope with the current situation of acute gas crisis. He also has given a comprehensive idea on Green factory and suggested use of environment friendly power generation techniques. Sustainable Innovation in the Textile Industry Syed Mohammad Ismail, Sales Head, Bangladesh, Huntsman Textile Effects Mr. Ismail from Huntsman presented how his company is striving for achieving and ensuring sustainable innovation in the textile industry. In the theme they are working on all aspects like social, economic and environmental. Huntsman has invented the smart process solution with signicant advantages over water usage, liquor ratio, rinsing and dyeing time. He has introduced a new approach of intelligent effects in textiles to reduce energy consumption and water used. The solution is called High IQ in Huntsman. The system provides the advantages through Freshness: garments need to be laundered less, Active Comfort: make cleaning easier,

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Lasting Color: to give the garment a longer life and Easy Care Plus: Reduce the need for tumble drying / ironing. Effect of Isothermal and Migration Process on Knit Fabric Dyeing with Reactive Dye Especially on Light Color M. M. Rahman, Lecturer, DTE, Daffodil International University (DIU) It was indeed an experiment result done and presented by Mr. M.M. Rahman. He conducted the experiment to nd out the comparative advantages of isothermal process over migration process in the light color range.

ENZYMATIC SURFACE MODIFICATION FOR IMPROVED MOISTURE MANAGEMENT OF BLENDED HOSIERY FABRICS Dr. N.D.Karthikeyan, Assistant General Manager, Intertek - Consumer Goods, Bangladesh Dr. Karthikeyan from India has presented his research paper which was focused to moisture transmission properties of some combinations of polyester and viscose blended single jersey fabrics were studied with an effort to understand the physical phenomena of clothing comfort. The study also attempted to investigate the inuence of enzyme treatment on moisture transmission characteristics of P/V blended single jersey fabrics. The researchers have selected 15 blends of different combinations of polyester viscose and tested their moisture management properties (liquid moisture management & moisture vapor management). They have done the wicking test and the permetest and came up with some signicant results. The day one has been ended with these four presentations of the session covering the energy crisis and possible solutions and modern techniques for achieving sustainability and possible ways to reduce pressure on environment. The session was followed by a special continental buffet dinner and concurrent un ofcial discussion and B2B meetings.

Technical Session 3: Recent Challenges for the Textile and Apparel Industry-1

The second and the nal day of the conference started with the technical session three with the theme of recent challenges for the industry. This was indeed the longest session of the conference having four papers presented. The session was moderated by Prof. Dr. Mustazur Rahman, Head, Department of Textile Technology, Ahsanullah University of Science & Tehnology. While we got Engr. Ehsanul Karim Kaiser, CEO, Esquire Group (Textile Division) and Mr. Shanmugham,*** Marketing Manger, Novozymes Southasia Ltd.

Environmentally Friendly Techniques in Textiles Dr. Arun Kanti Guha, Assistant Professor, Department of Textile Engineering, Southeast Uniersity The session started with a keynote on the environmental situation analysis of the surrounding regions of the main industrial zones with the presentation of some environment friendly alternatives. Presenter Dr. Arun Kanti Guha and et al has done a survey to nd out the characteristics of the waste water by region in nding the possible solutions. He suggested proper house keeping, closer process control and urged more use of recent technical developments like supercritical uid dyeing & foam dyeing etc. He emphasized on using less harmful chemicals in as alternatives and also suggested to use most modern more efcient and sustainable technologies in efuent treatment. Technical Barriers to Trade: Bangladesh Perspective Dr. Humaun Kabir, Sector Specialist, Duty Exemption and Drawback Ofce, GOB Dr. Humaun has presented a very well organized and enriched presentation on a very important issue in international trading, technical barrier. These barriers appear while the technical requirements and specication differ between the trading countries. He showed some way of Minimizing unnecessary obstacles to trade by using WTO Agreement on TBT. World Trade Organization(WTO) has a Technical Barrier to Trade(TBT)

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agreement with its member countries. In the light of the agreement Dr. Humaun has pointed out the main points those became the hurdles for export. He also gured to global standards and quality/technical requirements. Latest Innovation in Bio-blasting P.S.Thirumalaiappan, Customer Solutions, SEAIA, Consultant Director (Textiles), Novozymes. Mr. Thirumalaiappan has given a brief on the leading enzyme manufacturing company Novozymes and also illustrated the new developments in the bio polishing area. He has presented the new more sustainable and improved technology of bio polishing in neutral condition. They technology is called neutral bio blasting. It has signicant benets over traditional acid bio polishing. It can be applied after dyeing also as it has less colour retention and it cause less weight loss of the fabric. Potential of Branded Menswear in Bangladesh Abrar A Apu, Assistant Professor, Daffodil International University Mr. Apu has focused on the growing local demand and he took the mens wear. According to his observation in Bangladesh right now people are not that brand aware but the trend is increasing everyday. He investigated the sector and used a matrix to select best 10 existign brands in menswear. Mr. Apu informed that Bangladesh is having a market of 4.5 billion taka every year having a growth of 10-20%. Eventually the study that Bangladesh can be the largest manswear brand owner as it has all necessary resources. At the end of the session Prof. Mustazur Rahman made the sum up and welcomed questions. The participants demanded easy measyring meter or instrument to measure efuent characteristics for easy undertanding of everybody concerned as they can understand easily what type of efuent they are discharging and are their ETPs working or not. After the closure of the rst session of the day all are sreved with continental buffet lunch.

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The second session of the day started right after the lunch and prayer break. This session was also of the recent developments. The session was moderated by Mr. John T Smith, Chairman, International Event, Textile Institute. Mr. Mir Azharul Islam, Marketing Director, BASF Bangladesh, Mr. Mosharraf Hossain***, CEO, Mosharraff Textiles and Mr. Kamruzzaman, Regional (South-East Asia) Head of Hohenstein Institute were gracing the stage as distinguished.

Preparation and Properties of Polyimide and Inorganic Hybrids Dr. Shaikh Md. Mominul Alam, College of Textile Technology, Tejgaon, Dhaka Dr. Mominul has got his PhD from Japan and he came up with his research work on composite materials. Most of the modern high-tech equipments we use in our daily life, e.g. camera, mobile, laptop etc. contains a good proportion of polyimide lms. Polyimide polymers have such properties that even help it to be used in the space garments and other space ship equipments. Dr. Momin also informed that its high heat resistance is the main advantage to be taken off. He made an illustration on different polymers with their preparation techniques and also mentioned their specic properties. Finally he presented their excellent invention of producing different Polyimide hybrids to achieve different end use properties. The invention is awarded and patented.

Application of Phase Change Materials in Textile and Apparel Saniyat Islam, School of Fashion & Textiles, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia It is a research work on getting advantages of thermal energy storage capability of different Phase Change Materials to be used in garments and

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other possible places. Mr. Saniyat is doing his PhD in RMIT. He informed that PCMs are suitable to be used in textiles as these materials have a high capacity to store thermal energy, non-toxic, chemically inert, ecologically harmless and melting temperatures can be matched to maintain the protected environment in the extreme weather conditions. These are also being used in telecom equipments, air conditioning, heating in the boiler and cold storages. Uses of Silicones in Textile Industry Levent Berk, Chairman, Prochem, Turkey The presentation was on the developments in silicone to ensure more effective and precise use in textiles. The silicones have a very wide range of use in textiles. These are being used as lubricants, wetting agents, softeners, anti foams, water repellants. Mr. Levent Berk showed structures and compositions of different types of silicones and analyzed their application properties very elaborately. A New Spinnable Fiber in Asian Region. Hosne Ara Begum, College of Textile Technology, Tejgaon, Dhaka The research is made on the ber from the areca nut. The ber is made from the shell of the Areca nut. The nuts are very available in Bangladesh and the shells have no signicant use. Ms. Hosne Ara Begum has developed the yarn from the nut and tried to gure out the end use properties. He analyzed different characteristics of the ber and suggested following end uses, e.g. In the outer garments: Sweater, Window Curtain, Sofa Cover, Coarse yarn for mat and Composite Material: Different hard board with different shape. The session has been ended by the sum up speech of the moderator and the question and answer session.

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The nal technical session of the ICTA 2010 was having two papers to be presented. The session was moderated by Prof. Fakhrul Hasan Murad, Chairman, Department of Textile Engineering, Southeast University. With him we found Engr. Salah Uddin Iqbal, Country Manager, Zydex Industries and Mr. Amanur Rahman, Executive Director, Dysinchem Bangladesh Ltd. on the stage. Asutex: Fashion Garment Solutions. Mohammad Monowar Hossain, Country Manager, Asutex The presentation was on the development of the renowned Spanish company Asutex in the fashion garment industry specically with very special washing effects. With the chronology of the garment industry Engr. Monowar focused that adopt ness to the fashion trends are the main challenges for the companies. He showed some the Asutex solutions to enter in the fashion garments area simply with some special wash effects. He elaborated their innovation the Asudel process with washable dyes and their effects. He also illustrated the effects found from the Cool Pigment Process, Asumagic Process, LLR Sytem and All in Pigment Process. Three Dimensional Knitted Structures for Technical Textiles Applications Professor Subhash Anand MBE, The University of Bolton, Bolton, UK The last presentation of the conference was from Prof. Anand on the three dimensional knitted structures and their uses in the technical textiles area. He illustrated the technology and showed some samples to the participants. In his presentation he revealed the techniques of producing spacer fabric using both the warp and weft knitting machines. The session was concluded with the question and answer part and the moderator Prof. Murads concluding speech. Professor also invited all to join the closing ceremony.

The ending of ICTA open a new epoch of knowledge based textile garment industry

The closing ceremony of ICTA 2010 and the award giving ceremony of Textile Talent

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Hunt 2009 was indeed a grand evening with words and signs of appreciation for the organizer for the fantastic event. This program was the nishing line for the events of the respective years. A huge and long event of Textile Talent Hunt 2009 reached to the ultimate ending with the handing over of the awards to the talents of the year. ICTA 2010 ends with number of outcomes and carries different guidelines for future to be followed on.

The nal part graced by Mr. Md. Fazlul Hoque, President, Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers & Exporters Association. In his speech he mentioned that it is indeed a great event and done in such fashion that it become a icon for the future achievements of the industry. Mr. Faruque Hasan, Vice President, Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers Association and Professor Subhash Anand MBE, Council Chairman, Textile Institute, Manchester, UK were present as special guest at the evening. Mr. Hasan expressed that the event will allow the industry to reach to its ultimate sustainability and growth. Prof. Anand mentioned the conference as a great initiative and told that it was not like the rst of the country rather it was excellent in all aspects of an international conference. Mr. Md. Daulatuzzaman Ansary, Sr. Vice President, Institute of Textile Engineers & Technologists was the guest of honor of the event and Md. Monirul Islam, Chairman, ICTA 2010 Organizing Committee was in the chair to declare the closure of this years conference and invited to take part in coming one.

Bangladesh Textile Today Issue: Mar-Apr - 2010

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