Home Textiles Today - April 23, 2007

As part of a major effort to improve its "clean manufacturing" efforts, decorative fabric producer and mill Chris Stone has invested in a number of new machines and processes. The company has purchased several atmospherically controlled jumbo dye jigs capable of dyeing 2,000 yard lots at a time, with color consistency achieved by computer controlled fabric speed tension a...

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