Factories surround the school: within 300 yards are two garment factories, two dyeing operations, a textile mill, a brick factory and a pharmaceutical plant.
In dyeing operations, the dye must become closely and evenly associated with a specific material to give level (even) colouring with some measure of resistance to moisture, heat, and light i.e., fastness.
Most of the money came from Unifi, a large textile company based in Greensboro, N.C., that had been tracking possible uses of carbon dioxide in dyeing operations, and the George Soros Management Fund.
The clothing manufacturer Fruit of the Loom will lay off 630 employees and shut its remaining two factories in Ireland over the next five years to move its spinning, knitting and dyeing operations to Morocco, where it employs 1,700 people and has cheaper labor costs.
A number of industries are causing heavy metal pollution e.g. battery manufacturing processes, mining and metallurgical engineering, dyeing operations, electroplating, nuclear power plants, tanning, production of paints and pigments [2].
And the various pieces and parts of any single garment — a jacket, say, or pair of pants — often come from such a diverse multinational chain of fabric mills, dye operations and assembly plants that quantifying the environmental impact of a single item is nearly impossible.
The Collins & Aikman Corporation, the largest maker of automobile carpets, agreed to buy the Joan Fabrics Corporation's automotive fabric business and an affiliated yarn-dyeing operation for $158.9 million in cash and stock.
He visits the feather-dyeing operation serving the showgirls of Las Vegas and interviews one of New York's few remaining feather-focused milliners.
Only sewing plants have been closed -- leaving behind industrial operations like dyeing and spinning.
Today Lorber Industries of California is a $100-million-a-year vertical operation with knitting, dyeing, printing and finishing equipment under one roof.
