Cloth shrinks because its fibres have been stretched taut during weaving and finishing, and under the gentle massage of washing the fibres swell, relax and partially return to their original shorter ...

Cluett, Peabody & Co. Inc. is the biggest U.S. maker of brand-name shirts (Arrow), but its largest single source of profit is not from shirts at all. It is from “Sanforizing,” a process for ...

1 Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Khulna, Bangladesh. 2 Textile Engineering College, Chittagong, Bangladesh. 3 Bangladesh University of Textiles, Dhaka ...

ROBERT M. DOWLING, 86, clothing executive who popularized the Sanforizing process in the 1940s and 1950s, died Tuesday. From 1947 to 1966, Dowling was president of the Sanforized Co., a division of ...

During the Innovate Textile & Apparel (ITA) virtual textile machinery show which will run from 15-30 October 2020, Monforts will be emphasising its leadership position in three key fields – advanced ...

Baldwin Technology Company Inc. has successfully installed six new fabric finishing and sanforizing precision spray systems in the U.S. and Turkey. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the installations ...