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Ashok Hakoo

Tech. Textile and Management Consultant Fabtech Solutions, India Ashok Hakoo is a technical textile and management consultant, who undertake projects on mill operational activities and provides solutions to technical and management shop floor problems. He has an extensive business background in international, multi-cultural environments with proven achievements in textile technology and management, operational functional applications, for conventional and technical fabrics. He is currently working with Fabtech Solutions as a textile Consultant.

Engineering Technology of Denim Fabric

It may be impossible to predict the final properties of Denim fabrics without analysing factors that influence them directly or indirectly. In this article various technical and technological parameters that are associated with Denim production are evaluated.

Blue Denim Fabrics

Word “denim” comes from fabric “serge de Nimes” made in France city of Nimes from where it originates. It has been used in America since the late 18th century, colored blue with indigo dye to make blue “jeans”, a type of cotton pants.

Pashmina Wool Fibers

Pashmina is another name for Cashmere is a downy undercoat of the Capra Hircus Laniger goats that mainly live in the Trans-Himalayan regions classified as speciality hair fibres which possess special qualities of fineness and lustre, which is used for making finest quality shawls and hijabs.

Textile composite materials

A composite textile material (also called a composition material or shortened to composite) is a material made from two or more constituent materials with significantly different physical or chemical properties that, when combined, produce a material with characteristics different from the individual components.